For the first time, engineers at MIT have developed a comprehensive, physics-based model that accurately represents the airflow around rotors even under extreme conditions. The new model enables the ...

Rotor blade designer We4Ce (Almelo, Netherlands) has announced the design of 10 rotor blade sets for Dutch wind turbine startup TouchWind B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) for testing on its floating TW6 ...

Everyone’s owned a pinwheel at one time or another. I remember riding in the back of my parents’ car, sticking my pinwheel out the window as we traveled down the street. The speed at which the ...

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 ...