Two companies are partnering to tackle one of the wind energy industry’s most persistent challenges—and they may set a world ...

This vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) uses five 3” PVC pipes cut in half for blades rotating on three kids bicycle wheels to spin an Ametek 38 volt motor or a wind blue alternator.The whole ...

Harnessing Wind Energy Twice per Revolution. Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are gaining attention as an alternative to traditional horizontal axis designs because of their ab ...

Some might also be familiar with vertical wind turbines, which can operate no ... But if you had hundreds or even thousands of these electric “blades of grass”, you could potentially build ...

Doucet put 16 designs of vertical turbine blades through the motions to arrive at three final versions that made it to the wind tunnel testing. After rigorous testing at two facilities in the US ...

Vineyard Wind 1 is once again turning wind into electricity, even as its developer works to meet a federal mandate requiring the removal of turbine blades made at the Canadian factory where the faulty ...

Twenty-eight wind turbine blades have recently been painted black ... of altitude as a third dimension in the analysis, ...

The decision comes six months after a blade on one of Vineyard Wind’s turbines broke apart 14 miles southwest of the island and littered south shore beaches, prompting the federal government to ...

New vertical axis wind turbines that could be a game-changer for distributed generation powering farms, factories and apartment blocks are being taken for a trial spin by a team in Australia. Flinders ...

The growing global focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become a central driver of the transition to renewable energy sources, including wind energy. International agreements, such as ...