wind turbine

noun

Updated on: 12 Apr 2018

Definition of wind turbine

: a wind-driven turbine for generating electricity

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Recent Examples of wind turbine from the Web

As years passed without humanity, nature will take down other bird barriers, including wind turbines, cellphone towers, and what Weisman cited as mankind's most damaging invention to birds, window glass.

— ned rozell, Anchorage Daily News, "How Alaska wildlife would fare in a world without humans," 7 Apr. 2018
In January, a federal court in Wisconsin convicted a Chinese manufacturer of wind turbines, Sinovel Wind Group, of stealing trade secrets from the American company AMSC and nearly putting it out of business.

— paul wiseman, Time, "Trump Proposes Tariffs on $50 Billion in Chinese Electronics Imports," 5 Apr. 2018
Imagine a great hurricane was forecast to strike the mid-Atlantic in four years, crushing millions of wind turbines and solar panels, wiping out all of PJM’s installed renewable energy capacity.

— david roberts, Vox, "The simple argument for keeping nuclear power plants open," 5 Apr. 2018
In January, a federal court in Wisconsin convicted a Chinese manufacturer of wind turbines, Sinovel Wind Group, of stealing trade secrets from the American company AMSC and nearly putting it out of business.

— samuel chamberlain, Fox News, "US proposes extra tariffs on $50B in Chinese products to protest tech theft," 4 Apr. 2018
In January, a federal court in Wisconsin convicted a Chinese manufacturer of wind turbines, Sinovel Wind Group, of stealing trade secrets from the American company AMSC and nearly putting it out of business.

— paul wiseman, chicagotribune.com, "U.S. proposes tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports," 3 Apr. 2018
To make wind energy as efficient as possible, engineers have experimented with many different wind turbine designs.

— megan arnett, Scientific American, "Just Keep Spinning--Find the Best Pinwheel Design!," 29 Mar. 2018
These drones aren’t just used to clean wind turbines.

— avery thompson, Popular Mechanics, "De-Icing Wind Turbines Is Easy With a Giant Drone," 27 Mar. 2018
Allen said the wind turbines in northern Arizona don't run often and the state needs around-the-clock power from coal or the power grid would not be reliable.

— ryan randazzo, azcentral, "An attempt to 'confuse voters'? Republicans push second clean-energy ballot measure," 27 Mar. 2018

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