Most people know what wind turbines look like on the outside: huge, white, spinning giants. But how do they look on the inside, and what’s it like to climb one and stand on top? Sally Wright knows ...

After two decades of steady growth, wind blew past hydroelectric as the leading source of renewable energy in the United States in 2019. Last year, wind turbines generated a total of 338 billion ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University engineers, researchers and educators want to be part of America’s wind energy solution. And so they’re building programs and partnerships to boost the university’s ...

A group of mechanical engineering seniors will be the first University of Colorado Boulder team to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC) – an event in which ...

Wind power has become one of the pillars of the global energy transition, yet the basic silhouette of the modern turbine, a tall tower with three sweeping blades, has barely changed in decades. Now a ...

It is the year 2035. In a world facing climate catastrophe, the human enterprise is powered by fields of wind farms, with turbine blades made from fast-growing grasses and the roots of a ...

AMES, Iowa – Three thin leaflets blew open and blood blasted through an artificial heart valve, the center stream firing reds and yellows, the colors indicating a flow speed up to 125 centimeters per ...

Can the most challenging component of a wind turbine be used as the model for sustainable housing? In the Netherlands, a 20-year-old V80 2MW nacelle the heavy-duty shell that once contained a ...

Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... a 20,000 cubic-meter power-generating airship, floating 6,560 ft (2,000 meters) above the ground. Introducing the S2000 stratospheric airborne ...

Darren Hoadley, who feared he might never return to work after losing his arm but passed gruelling tests to do so, taking part in a run in Norwich - TWITTER An engineer who had his arm sliced off by a ...

GE Renewables must pay European wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa $30,000 per megawatt in royalties for patent infringement on a technology used in its next generation 12-MW to 14-MW Haliade-X ...