China has completed a full-process flight test of its upgraded S4000 Stratosphere Airborne Wind ...

The Shine Turbine is compact, durable, and effective in high-wind environments. Its 40W output is better suited to phones, power banks, and small devices. Wind dependency makes it less versatile than ...

A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design ...

Portable solar panels have long been a favorite of the off-grid camping and backpacking community. They are light, silent, ...

When comparing the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs, [AdamEnt] found using a hair dryer wasn’t the best tool for the job. Enter his new 3D-printed wind tunnel. After several ...

The WTTC opened in 2011 and has since evolved to test longer wind turbine blades (Credit: DOE) When WTTC opened in 2011, it tested land-based wind turbine blades that typically spanned around 50 ...

The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The ...

A new system using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of embedded-control software releases keeps turbines up on the farm For its wind turbine control systems, Siemens’ engineers faced the challenge ...

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It could be Ed Miliband’s most expensive legacy. A network of giant floating wind farms is set to fill Britain’s seas – ...