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As we’ve discussed many times before, offshore wind represents an enormous opportunity for clean energy, but some of the best resources are out in deep water, where sinking a shaft straight into the sea bed becomes prohibitively expensive and difficult… Continue reading Pivoting arms could stabilize massive floating offshore wind turbines
It’s been clear for a long time that the world has to move away from fossil energy sources. Decades ago, this seemed impractical, when renewable energy was hugely expensive, and …read more Continue reading New Renewable Energy Projects Are Overwhelming US Grids
[Irak Mayer] has been exploring IoT applications for use with remote monitoring of irrigation control systems. As you would expect, the biggest challenges for moving data from the middle of …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Irak Mayer Builds Self-Sustainable Outdoor IoT Devices
The strongest winds tend to be higher up, but as this 2022 study shows, higher-mounted turbines catching stronger wind doesn’t necessarily equate to the lowest cost of energy. Indeed, once you factor in the costs of stronger foundations and taller, stu… Continue reading GE installs world’s first spiral-welded wind turbine tower
Extreme engineering is becoming the norm as offshore wind continues to scale up. Sweeping the area of 12.3 standard NFL fields each rotation, with gargantuan 140-meter (459-ft) blades, the MySE 18.X-28X will be the largest wind turbine ever built.
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Continue reading Wind turbine as tall as a 70-story building announced in China
Wind energy is often thought of as “clean” but, in fact, the technology has the blood of thousands – if not millions – of bats on its hands. That’s not only because bats can fly into the giant wind turbine blades and die, but because the turbines creat… Continue reading Drone-mounted “bat shield” could help prevent wind turbine collisions
Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative … Continue reading Full-scale 5-MW floating “pyramid” wind turbine will be put to the test
Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative … Continue reading Full-scale 5-MW floating “pyramid” wind turbine will be put to the test
If you’ve ever aspired to live off the grid, then it’s likely that one of the first things you considered was how to power all of your electrical necessities, and …read more Continue reading Scratch Built Wind Turbine Makes Power And Turns Heads
Aeromine says its unique “motionless” rooftop wind generators deliver up to 50% more energy than a solar array of the same price, while taking up just 10% of the roof space and operating more or less silently. In independent tests, they seem legit.Cont… Continue reading Rooftop wind system delivers 150% the energy of solar per dollar