The WTTC opened in 2011 and has since evolved to test longer wind turbine blades (Credit: DOE) When WTTC opened in 2011, it tested land-based wind turbine blades that typically spanned around 50 ...
Researchers at Concordia University have developed a new way to make small wind turbines, ...
When a wind turbine blade sustains very severe or critical structural damage, it is still common practice in the industry to ...
Researchers see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old blades winding up in ...
The EOLIAN blade will be manufactured using composite materials based on a bio-based repairable and recyclable vitrimer matrix reinforced with basalt fibres, and a structural health monitoring system ...
The goal is to make the spinning turbine stand out more clearly to birds.
Glass fibers from retired wind turbine blades can be converted into high-capacity silicon-carbon battery anodes, turning a growing waste problem into valuable energy storage materials. (Nanowerk ...
The promise was electric. A wind generator with no blades, no gears, no spinning parts at all — just a thin ribbon trembling in the breeze, supposedly many times more efficient than the small turbines ...