Turbine
noun
A machine that uses the flow of fluid (like air, steam, or water) to spin a wheel and produce power.
The power plant uses large turbines to generate electricity
Often appears as...
- wind turbine
- steam turbine
noun
A type of engine in aircraft that spins to produce thrust.
The airplane is equipped with two jet turbines
Often appears as...
- jet turbine
- turbine blades
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A machine that uses the flow of fluid (like air, steam, or water) to spin a wheel and produce power.
The power plant uses large turbines to generate electricity
Often appears as...
- wind turbine
- steam turbine
noun
A type of engine in aircraft that spins to produce thrust.
The airplane is equipped with two jet turbines
Often appears as...
- jet turbine
- turbine blades
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Fluid Motion
Turbines convert energy from fluids moving naturally or artificially.
Hydropower dams have turbines turned by river water.
Pro Tip 2/3Energy Production
Turbines are crucial in power generation facilities.
Engineers check the turbines daily to ensure efficient energy production.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety of Fluids
Different turbines are designed for specific fluids like steam or water.
Our city's electricity comes from steam turbines.
Pro Tip 1/3Fluid Motion
Turbines convert energy from fluids moving naturally or artificially.
Hydropower dams have turbines turned by river water.
Pro Tip 2/3Energy Production
Turbines are crucial in power generation facilities.
Engineers check the turbines daily to ensure efficient energy production.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety of Fluids
Different turbines are designed for specific fluids like steam or water.
Our city's electricity comes from steam turbines.
Pro Tip 1/3Fluid Motion
Turbines convert energy from fluids moving naturally or artificially.
Hydropower dams have turbines turned by river water.
Pro Tip 2/3Energy Production
Turbines are crucial in power generation facilities.
Engineers check the turbines daily to ensure efficient energy production.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety of Fluids
Different turbines are designed for specific fluids like steam or water.
Our city's electricity comes from steam turbines.
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How to decarbonize the...
It's a big deal to put wind turbines out in the ocean. The ocean, the winds are much stronger, and the winds are much more constant, not only stronger. So it balances the grid beautifully. But it's really hard to build things in the deep ocean. Norway's good at it. So let them take that on. Are they taking it on?
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Joel Sartore: Capturing...
to people in a never distracted world with no time for anything except what they see on their cell phone at a stoplight that's the news they're gonna get for the day on the way into work how are we going to tell people about wind wind is a very clean source but holy cow the turbine fields coming up from South
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How a windmill gets...
turbine you could design it yourself and save a little bit of money but you really don't want to do that because if you do it wrong you get a hinge Tower which really isn't very helpful for creating electricity so now we're bringing in the nacelle this has got a gearbox and a generator in it we waste
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How we can curb climate...
The last time we left it, it had helped make steel, which, climate impact notwithstanding, is one of the key building blocks of our economies. It's in many, many things, from huge structures to everyday household items like refrigerators or washing machines. We use it to build wind turbines,
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Taylor Wilson: My...
and nuclear was a really big advancement in a way to heat the water, but you still boil water and that turns to steam and turns the turbine. And I thought, you know, is this the best way to do it? Is fission kind of played out, or is there something left to innovate here?
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How do wind turbines...
Wind turbines already provide essential energy for communities around the world. And for many farmers, hosting a wind turbine can be a reliable source of additional income. With continued improvements in wind forecasting, electrical grid infrastructure and energy storage,
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100 solutions to reverse...
The 84 gigatons reduced from onshore wind turbines, for example, results from the electricity generated from wind farms that would otherwise be produced from coal or gas-fired plants. We calculate all the costs to build and to operate the plants
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Bill Gates: The...
That steam spins a turbine which activates a generator which pushes electrons through the wire. This current propagates through hundreds of miles of electric cables and arrives at your home. All around the world,
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Marco Annunziata:...
reactive and social. It's jet engines, locomotives, gas turbines, medical devices, communicating seamlessly with each other and with us. It's a world where information itself becomes intelligent and comes to us
Video examples
How empowering women and...
At that level of impact, gender equity is on par with wind turbines and solar panels and forests. There is life force in learning and life force in choice.
Video examples
How to decarbonize the...
It's a big deal to put wind turbines out in the ocean. The ocean, the winds are much stronger, and the winds are much more constant, not only stronger. So it balances the grid beautifully. But it's really hard to build things in the deep ocean. Norway's good at it. So let them take that on. Are they taking it on?
Video examples
Joel Sartore: Capturing...
to people in a never distracted world with no time for anything except what they see on their cell phone at a stoplight that's the news they're gonna get for the day on the way into work how are we going to tell people about wind wind is a very clean source but holy cow the turbine fields coming up from South
Video examples
How a windmill gets...
turbine you could design it yourself and save a little bit of money but you really don't want to do that because if you do it wrong you get a hinge Tower which really isn't very helpful for creating electricity so now we're bringing in the nacelle this has got a gearbox and a generator in it we waste
Video examples
How we can curb climate...
The last time we left it, it had helped make steel, which, climate impact notwithstanding, is one of the key building blocks of our economies. It's in many, many things, from huge structures to everyday household items like refrigerators or washing machines. We use it to build wind turbines,
Video examples
Taylor Wilson: My...
and nuclear was a really big advancement in a way to heat the water, but you still boil water and that turns to steam and turns the turbine. And I thought, you know, is this the best way to do it? Is fission kind of played out, or is there something left to innovate here?
Video examples
How do wind turbines...
Wind turbines already provide essential energy for communities around the world. And for many farmers, hosting a wind turbine can be a reliable source of additional income. With continued improvements in wind forecasting, electrical grid infrastructure and energy storage,
Video examples
100 solutions to reverse...
The 84 gigatons reduced from onshore wind turbines, for example, results from the electricity generated from wind farms that would otherwise be produced from coal or gas-fired plants. We calculate all the costs to build and to operate the plants
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
That steam spins a turbine which activates a generator which pushes electrons through the wire. This current propagates through hundreds of miles of electric cables and arrives at your home. All around the world,
Video examples
Marco Annunziata:...
reactive and social. It's jet engines, locomotives, gas turbines, medical devices, communicating seamlessly with each other and with us. It's a world where information itself becomes intelligent and comes to us
Video examples
How empowering women and...
At that level of impact, gender equity is on par with wind turbines and solar panels and forests. There is life force in learning and life force in choice.
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Quote examples
John Layfield
American Businessman
In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I'd gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, 'We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?
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Tim Rice
British Musician
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I am very pro the environment, but I strongly believe that it is something that can only be cured locally. Some insane overall scheme isn't going to cure all the problems.
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Brad Schneider
American Politician
America is home to the best researchers, advanced manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in the world. There is no reason we cannot lead the planet in manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines, engineering the smart energy grid, and inspiring the next great companies that will be the titans of a new green energy economy.
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Michael Shellenberger
American Author
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity, locks in fossil fuels, and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.
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Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways.
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John Sexton
American Educator
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
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Dean Kamen
American Inventor
My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.
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Ban Ki-moon
South Korean Leader
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Tulsi Tanti
Indian Businessman
We strongly believe the wind turbine business in China is strategically important for us.
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Anne Murray
Canadian Musician
Turbines are a curiosity, but only once.
Quote examples
John Layfield
American Businessman
In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I'd gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, 'We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?
Quote examples
Tim Rice
British Musician
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I am very pro the environment, but I strongly believe that it is something that can only be cured locally. Some insane overall scheme isn't going to cure all the problems.
Quote examples
Brad Schneider
American Politician
America is home to the best researchers, advanced manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in the world. There is no reason we cannot lead the planet in manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines, engineering the smart energy grid, and inspiring the next great companies that will be the titans of a new green energy economy.
Quote examples
Michael Shellenberger
American Author
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity, locks in fossil fuels, and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.
Quote examples
Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways.
Quote examples
John Sexton
American Educator
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
Quote examples
Dean Kamen
American Inventor
My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.
Quote examples
Ban Ki-moon
South Korean Leader
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
Quote examples
Tulsi Tanti
Indian Businessman
We strongly believe the wind turbine business in China is strategically important for us.
Quote examples
Anne Murray
Canadian Musician
Turbines are a curiosity, but only once.
Example 1 of 10
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