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The generator weighs 40 percent less than conventional units, and the nacelle—the housing for the generator and other machinery—is 25 percent smaller.
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IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2023
Once elevated, the vessel becomes a platform where an immense crane, capable of lifting more than 1,600 tons, can install the tower sections, nacelle, and blades for each turbine.
—Thomas Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
While the turbines will be supplied by General Electric, the cabinlike structures called nacelles, which house the gearing and electronics, will be made in France.
—Stanley Reed and Ivan Penn, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
Kane credits the show’s cast and crew for explicating to her why Pelia would, say, request that the Enterprise vent plasma out of the warp nacelles.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 June 2023
So the nacelles make a bad problem worse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
The kits swap the engine in its streamlined housing (also known as nacelle) for a fuel-cell stack, power electronics, and a 2-MW electric motor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
Modern turbines are designed to detect wind speed and direction, enabling their nacelle — the top portion of the turbine that connects the blades to the tower — to rotate around the tower to better catch the wind.
—David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
The motion of wind rotates the large blades of the turbine, which in turn rotates a rotor in the square box at the top of the turbine, called a nacelle.
—London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
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IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2023
Once elevated, the vessel becomes a platform where an immense crane, capable of lifting more than 1,600 tons, can install the tower sections, nacelle, and blades for each turbine.
—Thomas Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
While the turbines will be supplied by General Electric, the cabinlike structures called nacelles, which house the gearing and electronics, will be made in France.
—Stanley Reed and Ivan Penn, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
Kane credits the show’s cast and crew for explicating to her why Pelia would, say, request that the Enterprise vent plasma out of the warp nacelles.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 June 2023
So the nacelles make a bad problem worse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
The kits swap the engine in its streamlined housing (also known as nacelle) for a fuel-cell stack, power electronics, and a 2-MW electric motor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
Modern turbines are designed to detect wind speed and direction, enabling their nacelle — the top portion of the turbine that connects the blades to the tower — to rotate around the tower to better catch the wind.
—David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
The motion of wind rotates the large blades of the turbine, which in turn rotates a rotor in the square box at the top of the turbine, called a nacelle.
—London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
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nacelle
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na·celle
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: an enclosed shelter on an aircraft for an engine or sometimes for the crew
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