What if you don’t put airfoils on a central, spinning axis, but instead have them careen around a circular track? If you’re a company called Airloom, you’d say that it’s a very cheap, very ...
Wind turbines are a fantastic, cheap, renewable source of energy. However, nothing lasts forever, and over time, the blades of wind turbines fatigue and must be replaced. This then raises the ...
In 2010, the University of Delaware and Gamesa Technology Corporation (now Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy) joined forces to install a utility-scale 2-megawatt (2-MW) wind turbine at UD’s Hugh R.
Trouble is brewing between a regional Victorian council and the authority governing the safe transport of massive wind turbine parts, after a truck carrying a 70 metre turbine blade caused damage ...
A Nordex wind turbine has collapsed at a wind farm in northern Oklahoma with no discernible explanation for what caused the tower to buckle. The collapse was reportedly heard by locals at least ...
A stricken turbine at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project has been hit by lightning, according to multiple local reports. Vineyard Wind – the pioneering commercial-scale US project being built off ...
Bad luck strikes again. The same wind turbine blade that scattered debris across local beaches last summer was apparently struck by lightning last week. Vineyard Wind’s visual inspection showed ...
The same wind turbine that sustained damage in July and scattered large amounts of fiberglass debris onto the shores of some Nantucket beaches may have been struck by lightning Thursday, company ...