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 ...

A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless has developed an innovative mast wind turbine that works by turning vibrational ...

Offshore wind energy will experience significant growth in the coming decades. TNO is working on new techniques and methods.

You'll adore this innovative bladeless wind turbine for your house; bid solar panels farewell. It does not have to depend on ...

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 ...

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 ...

A structural engineer says the blades of a wind turbine are designed to last 20 years and built to withstand winds of at least 108kph.

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 ...

Shrink one of those to about a quarter of its size, and you have one type of home wind turbine. Manufacturers have come up with a number of creative designs that fall into one of two categories: ...

Machine Learning Enables Viability of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines Apr. 3, 2024 — Researchers have used a genetic learning algorithm to identify optimal pitch profiles for the blades of vertical ...