The successful culmination of the OptiBlade project’s first phase has spurred plans for a new plasma-coated multilayer film under the “Sustainable and efficient rotor blade production with ...

The project’s demonstration of automated 3D printing processes for large-scale structural blade components could also be potentially game-changing for the design of larger rotors, both for ...

The design study. The team used a multi-disciplinary computational approach to generate the size and shape of wind turbine blades for three different innovative rotors, all aimed at ...

There are currently about 53,000 turbines in the U.S. Wind-turbine rotor blades fail at a rate of approximately 3,800 a year, 0.54% of the 700,000 or so blades that were in operation worldwide at ...

You could fit the entire infield and outfield of Yankee stadium inside the area that this enormous machine sweeps. Twice! It might be time for that to change. The V164-7.0 machine from Vestas Wind ...

The TIADE project touched a new milestone with the research wind turbine becoming fully operational. The innovations developed in the project will be tested on the full-scale 130 m diameter turbine ...

Two wins for wind industry sustainability, with recyclable turbine blades entering operation in the North Sea and a new 95% recyclable offering from China.

The turbines are so powerful that just one spin of one of the rotors produces enough energy to power four households for an entire day. When the entire wind farm, all 64 turbines, is up and ...

Anemoi Rotor Sail installation marks largest yet wind-propulsion project - Anemoi Marine Technologies/Vale S.A. Rotor Sails, originally known as Flettner Rotors, are an energy saving technology for ...