A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia developed in partnership with Knight & Carver of San Diego should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy of wind turbines at low-wind-speed ...

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 ...

Wind energy is becoming highly popular in the area of renewable energy, with wind energy being forecast to provide up to 8% of the world’s consumption of electricity by 2021. Advancements in wind ...

Everyone’s owned a pinwheel at one time or another. I remember riding in the back of my parents’ car, sticking my pinwheel out the window as we traveled down the street. The speed at which the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed in partnership with Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego promises to be more efficient ...

A new study published in Renewable Energy has detailed the progress made in developing a new leaf-shaped wind turbine, but ...

Rotor blade designer We4Ce (Almelo, Netherlands) has announced the design of 10 rotor blade sets for Dutch wind turbine startup TouchWind B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) for testing on its floating TW6 ...

Researchers in Korea have developed a new design platform — and a staggering 12-megawatt-class blade to match — in an effort to put wind beneath the sails of its domestic production of wind power. The ...

Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanners could help wind blades stay in service longer, which could lower the cost of wind energy at a time when blades are getting bigger, pricier, ...