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 ...

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 ...

MidAmerican's radar that will turn on wind turbine warning lights when a plane is detected. Residents of four Iowa counties may notice there are no red lights now blinking in the night sky.

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 ...

Wind power could soon come from the sky as China has successfully tested a megawatt-class airborne turbine that generates ...

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. -- Imagine being a specialty window cleaner for cleaning the outside windows on skyscrapers. It takes a gutsy individual who thrives on adrenalin rushes to take on this role, a ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming's incessant gales have attracted the first commercial wind turbine-testing facility in the United States. With a matching state grant, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. will ...

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to ...

High above the streets of Yibin City in southwest China, a helium-filled airship shaped like a streamlined Zeppelin has ...

China has unveiled plans for seismic investment in wind power to boost its capacity for cleaner energy. As Interesting Engineering detailed, a memo from Huaneng, one of the nation's largest power ...

It is the year 2035. In a world facing climate catastrophe, the human enterprise is powered by fields of wind farms, with turbine blades made from fast-growing grasses and the roots of a ...