Two companies are partnering to tackle one of the wind energy industry’s most persistent challenges—and they may set a world ...

We may think that the wind turbines we see blowing in the wind up and down the country will last forever, but that's not the ...

But ORNL’s efforts to lower the cost of carbon fibre may make it economical to replace glass fibres in the blade tip, where lightning strikes most often. ORNL’s turbine blade tip, which is fully ...

In wind turbine blade manufacturing, this cut configuration has been ... What is common to both approaches is the use of unidirectional fibre (UD) – glass or carbon – to provide bending strength and ...

Optical-fibre sensors are being used in the wind-turbine industry to measure strain in the massive blades of wind turbines. Their immunity to lightning strikes is a big benefit. Credit: LM GLASS FIBER ...

The EoLO-HUBs (End of Life through Open HUBs) project aims to find a commercially viable and scalable solution to the looming stockpile of discarded wind turbine blades ... is tasked with recovering ...

Materials for the wind turbine blade include resins of glass fiber reinforced polyester, glass fiber reinforced epoxy, and carbon fiber reinforced epoxy. According to a comprehensive analysis by ...

A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless has developed an innovative mast wind turbine that works by turning vibrational ...

The 3DCeraTurb project focuses on the design and manufacture of a turbine vane using two of the most important new classes of manufacturing technologies and materials: Additively manufactured metals ...

More debris from the broken wind turbine ... Vernova's damaged wind blade." The turbine was damaged more than a week ago, and since then, more than six truckloads of fiber glass debris have ...

As Vineyard Wind recovers from last summer's blade collapse, Gov. Maura Healey says Mass. will watch President Trump while ...

ORNL’s turbine blade tip, which is fully recyclable, supports the wind industry ... The hybrid carbon fiber composite blade tip is 41% lighter than a blade tip made with pure glass fibers, ...