The present largest wind turbines have a capacity of 5-6 MW. Following five years of research at the joint European project UpWind, led by Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, th... Read more
How to put more bang in your biofuels? Nanoparticles! A new study in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energyshows that the addition of alumina nanoparticles can improve the performan... Read more
The UGE Sanya could take some business away from utilities Urban Green Energy — a New York City startup that designs and manufactures small wind turbines — has released and installed the fir... Read more
The American Chemical Society's (ACS) 238th National Meeting will be the site of a rare "thought experiment" intended to focus the creative genius of hundreds of scientists on solutions to o... Read more
Zero-carbon, renewable energy which is cost-competitive with fossil fuel generated sources is surely the Holy Grail of the engineering world. Now, a new spin-off company from The University... Read more
If you’ve ever seen a commercial-scale wind turbine in real life, then you’ll know that they’re huge – a single blade can be as long as 60 meters (197 feet). Researchers from Denmark’s Risoe... Read more