The industry calls a wind turbine that is not spinning “parked,” Hall said, and this is done with a braking system that holds the rotor in place. Once energy demand rises, the brake is released and ...

Additive Manufacturing Enables Faster Prototyping and Unique Design Capabilities for Wind Tunnel Models EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. & REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) today ...

COURTESY KANOA WINDS INC. Kanoa Winds’ planned small-scale wind turbines look like two vertical cylinders in a metal frame when spinning. 1 /1 COURTESY KANOA WINDS INC. Kanoa Winds’ planned ...

Petrobras PBR, in collaboration with WEG SA and Norway’s Statkraft AS, has launched the most powerful onshore wind turbine ever installed in Brazil. Located in Bahia state, this 7-megawatt (“MW”) ...

Siemens (NYSE: SI) has launched a new direct-current technology that simplifies the connection of offshore wind power plants to the grid. In contrast to the large central converter platforms ...

Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) will invest in a floating wind technology start-up, TouchWind.TouchWind is developing the tilting angled one-piece rotor wind turbine which is expected to reduce wind ...

A California company, Wind Harvest, is in high gear to change the dynamics of wind energy and to vastly improve the economics of wind farms. But the company wouldn’t be marketing to utilities and wind ...

The inherent variability of wind energy makes it hard to integrate into the grid (HCN, 5/02/05: The Winds of Change). Coal, gas, nuclear, biomass, geothermal and hydro plants can all be dialed up or ...

More than 100 years ago they represented life itself on a farm. Dotting the landscape of the Plains, the windmill carried water from deep underground to the surface. Today, it’s serenity in rhythm as ...

A California company, Wind Harvest, is in high gear to change the dynamics of wind energy and to vastly improve the economics of wind farms. But the company wouldn’t be marketing to utilities and wind ...