Up to 80 percent more cost effective to maintain – supposedly has a greater than 50 percent manufacturing cost advantage and a 40 percent reduction in its carbon footprint compared to... Read more
Harvard Engineers Use New Resin Inks and 3D Printing to Construct Lightweight Cellular Composites In wind farms across North America and Europe, sleek turbines equipped with state-of-the-art... Read more
Although it’s getting increasingly common to see solar panels on the roofs of homes, household wind turbines are still a fairly rare sight. If Rotterdam-based tech firm The Archimedes... Read more
As the wind sector continues to grow, the workers who inspect offshore turbines will need practical places to live. The Wind Turbine Loft is a new kind of creative housing for this class of... Read more
The soon-to-be-tested SKWID system will be the first one to do both There are already a wide variety of renewable energy systems that harness the power of the wind, along with some that gene... Read more
Could assembled concrete towers be a viable alternative to the steel towers now used for wind turbines? Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concr... Read more
“The improvements in energy production ranged from 81 percent to 660 percent, with an average of about 314 percent more energy.” SheerWind, a wind power company from Minnesota, U... Read more
The maintenance and inspection of wind turbines was never a topic I thought I would end up covering. It is definitely not the sexiest of news items ever to appear on CleanTechnica (though I... Read more
New patent filings show that the company is working on a new kind of turbine that creates energy that can be stored and used later, even when it isn’t windy. Certainly, Apple’s future will a... Read more
Instead of fiberglass, a super-strong architectural fabric will be wrapped around the blade frame The latest round of ARPA-E grants was just announced and among the 66 cleantech proje... Read more
A Tunisian invention that harvests wind energy through adesign inspired by sailboats promises cheaper, more efficient wind energy. The bladeless wind turbine, the Saphonian, named after th... Read more
Ontario, Canada has carved out a niche for itself as a hub of green technology. One of the latest clean tech innovations to come out of that province is DARWIND5, a vertical axis wind turbin... Read more
Delivers renewable energy at a cost competitive with current fossil fuel rates. Most wind turbines are meant to stay in the place where they are installed for the life of the unit, but one c... Read more
The Windstrument offers a different vision of what wind power can be in urban areas. Enough of the fields of turbines! It may be full of potential, but wind power is still a young industry w... Read more
“Our turbines make virtually no noise.” The potential damage to bird and bat populations by large wind turbines is often used as an argument against more wind power installations... Read more
