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
Hui Hu picked up a 3-D printed model of a typical wind turbine and began explaining two problems with the big, tall, three-bladed machines. First, said the Iowa State University professor of... 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
A wind turbine with a working life of 20 years will offer a net benefit within five to eight months of being brought online. US researchers have carried out an environmental lifecycle assess... Read more
The SOPCAWIND tool is a piece of software that facilitates the design of wind farms, bearing in mind not only the aspects of energy productivity but also the possible impact the wind farm ma... Read more
The Seatower Cranefree turbine platform could be such a significant step forward Offshore wind farming combines the clean, green, environmentally neutral benefits of land-based wind turbines... Read more
Hurricane protection: The windmills of your mind HOMELAND security is a strange beast. Governments will happily spend billions of dollars fighting foreign wars and making the lives of travel... Read more
Wind turbines can remain productive for up to 25 years, making wind farms an attractive long-term choice for energy investors, according to new research. The UK has a target of generating 15... Read more
“We can produce the desired damping effect on the power flow and restore stable grid behavior,” Researchers from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University have found... Read more
While Europe invests in wind energy, Norwegian hydropower offers the key to stable electricity supplies. The key driver of the development of a northern European offshore power grid is the m... Read more
Research into the best ways to arrange wind turbines has produced staggering results — quite literally. The University of Delaware’s Cristina Archer and her Atmosphere and Energy Research Gr... Read more
OFF THE COAST OF FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Twelve miles out to sea from the severely damaged and leaking nuclear reactors at Fukushima, a giant floating wind turbine signals the start of Japan’s mo... 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
Innovative storage system could enable offshore wind farms to deliver power whenever it’s needed. Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supp... Read more
How about skyscrapers outfitted with rotating window panels? Wind farms may be hitting the big time, but that hasn’t deterred inventors and technologists from tinkering, or even reinve... Read more
