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 ...

Advances in turbine size, floating offshore wind, airborne systems and unconventional designs could expand where wind energy ...

Company designed core wind tunnel systems that transformed the structure into a fully operational flight research ...

Rainier Square Tower, under construction in Seattle, is one of the buildings considered for the development of a performance-based wind design manual for tall buildings. Photo Courtesy of ...

In a long-awaited, historic step toward “real" not cookbook wind engineering, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently issued a recommended alternative ...

Engineers at the University of Queensland have cut floating wind turbine costs by 40 ...

Norwegian start-up World Wide Wind's innovative design, which features two 'contra-rotating' rotors on a slimline tower-spar structure, is foreseen pushing the emerging technology's levelised cost of ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. This antennae-looking turbine ...

Buildings with integrated wind turbines could generate at least 20 percent of their own energy needs, and perhaps all. They would be more power efficient than ordinary wind farms or solar powered ...

In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the blink of an eye. Yet ...