The Swiss manufacturer launches Gurit98m, an open-source blade model designed to support the development, design and optimisation of wind turbine blade materials. This initiative also reflects the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recyclable blade milestone comes just after RWE crossed another important stage—installing more than half of Sofia’s 100 ...

Computer simulations will be used to design the optimal shape and ensure the structural integrity of the natural fiber rotor ...

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 ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a low-cost carbon fiber that could lower the cost of blades for wind turbines. The fiber begins as widely available raw material used in the ...

Wind turbine maker Vestas today announced that it’s figured out how to recycle all wind turbine blades – even ones already sitting in landfills. The Danish company says it has discovered a solution ...

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