There are several operational factors and requirements that have guided design and development of composite wind turbine blades over the last 20 years. The most important factors and requirements are ...

Ming Yang has unveiled a 110-meter carbon fiber wind blade designed to be fully recyclable, tackling a major challenge in wind energy waste.

When a wind turbine reaches the end of its life after two or three decades, the giant blades attached to it usually end up in a landfill. That’s largely because of the materials that are used. “[The ...

The blades of propellers and wind turbines are designed based on aerodynamics principles that were first described mathematically more than a century ago. But engineers have long realized that these ...

In 2006, a team of architects were tasked with building a playground with volumes that kids could crawl into and play. Jos de Krieger—then an intern, now a partner at the Rotterdam-based architecture ...

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 ...

Making renewable energy greener. Wind energy is an increasingly popular form of renewable energy, but there are still aspects of the manufacturing, operation and end of life (EOL) of wind turbines ...

Businesses are usually born out of necessity. In a simplistic way, when someone believes there is or will be a need for a product or service, they'll move to provide that. If that need turns out to be ...

The solution is presented publicly for the first time by 8tree’s Program Manager (Wind), Johannes Leib, at AMI Wind Turbine ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...