Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 5:38pm
If you think your commute sucks, imagine having to slide out to the end of a 300-foot wind turbine blade as it's spinning. Luckily, this robot can do the job so you don't have to.
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Monday, April 8, 2013 - 11:39am
The Bahrain World Trade Center was the very first building to incorporate wind turbines into its design.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 4:56pm
Is this the technology that's going to replace bladed wind turbines?
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 5:35pm
Not only is the little European nation leading the pack with green and renewable energy, it's running away with the prize.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 3:08pm
Apple has filed a patent application for a system that stores excess energy when the wind is strong, and dishes it out again if the wind dies.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 9:23am
Just how big is massive? The latest wind turbine blades being built for offshore use are gigantic — roughly the total wingspan of an Airbus A380. They are the longest wind turbine blades being built, and here's how they do it.
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 2:38pm
Traditional wind turbine designs are HAWT. You know, not hot hawt, but HAWT like a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine." A HAWT design is what you probably think of when you picture a wind turbine (it's the thing that looks like a big propeller on a stick), but the next generation designs may be all about the VAWT, not the HAWT.
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 7:56am
Bigger wind turbines generate more power, but you can get just as much power by using a bunch of smaller wind turbines. The question is, which way do you go if you want to produce more power while staying as environmentally friendly as possible? We totally gave it away in the hed, but the scaling is such that truly gigantic turbines are an inevitability.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 1:31pm
The developing world has a continuous need for two things: electricity, and clean water. But more than that, there's a need for a decentralized way to produce both of these things, without a lot of additional infrastructure, and a new type of wind turbine that can suck water straight out of the air seems like the ideal solution.
Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 12:44pm
For those who use wind energy, and for general kite-flying purposes, it'd be nice to know where the wind in the United States is at any given moment. With this real time wind map, you can!
