New wind turbines will test out the world’s longest wooden blades
Two companies are partnering to tackle one of the wind energy industry’s most persistent challenges—and they may set a world ...
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Can We Repurpose Old Wind Turbine Blades?
The company took a used wind turbine blade, and fashioned it into a sleek and modern looking bike shed in Denmark. The blade was cut and shaped in order to act as an effective break for the wind ...
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These nearly silent wind turbines have owl-inspired ‘feathers’
The design works. The standard serrations on wind turbine blades cut noise by 1.5 to 2 decibels; in early tests, FeatherEdge reduced noise by an additional 3.4 decibels. (It’s possible that the ...
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Leading Edge Erosion: When Precipitation Destroys Wind Turbine Blades
As wind turbines have increased in size and diameter of their blades, this has noticeably increased the speed of especially the blade tips. With more and more wind turbine blade tips now exceeding ...