Bladeless wind turbines use a swaying mast instead of spinning blades, which could suit locations where conventional turbines ...

When you think of a wind turbine, the image that likely pops into your mind is the classic three-bladed giant rising from farmland or the sea. But over the years, designers and engineers have come up ...

Advances in turbine size, floating offshore wind, airborne systems and unconventional designs could expand where wind energy ...

One of the chief ecological complaints about wind turbines is how birds can fly into their blades and be killed. To solve this problem -- as well as reduce the amount of materials it takes to build a ...

The biggest wind turbines are larger than the Empire State Building. They're getting bigger every year because longer blades grab more wind and create more power compared to the increased material ...

Drag-based wind energy design. Aiming to translate its expertise in manufacturing monocoque, ribbed components with thermoplastic microspheres, Xenecore is working to develop a fan-shaped, drag-based ...

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The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New research has found that the ...

Where conventional large horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) have to support a large mass of motor and generators in a nacelle at the top of their enormous towers, WWW's design keeps all its ...

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