Houston-based Aeromine Technologies has fitted a bunch of silent and motionless wind energy harnessing airfoils on the roof of BMW's MINI manufacturing plant in Oxford, UK. They're meant to complement the factory's solar panels to produce clean energy, while taking up a lot less space.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Wind, Wind turbine, Wind Power Innovations, BMW, Clean Energy, Ren
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Heavy lift drones deliver critical cargo to offshore wind turbines
Posted by ArielTechGeek 91 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Following successful trials last year at a UK wind farm, Denmark's Ørsted has now put heavy lift drones to work at a 94-turbine offshore wind farm in the North Sea – completing resupply missions up to 15 times faster while also reducing costs.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, TechnologyTags: Offshore Wind, Cargo, Delivery drones, Wind turbine
Video: Robot climbs offshore wind turbines and paints while underwater
Posted by ArielTechGeek 238 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
An experimental new undersea robot shows great promise for use in the upkeep of offshore renewable energy platforms. Because it has the ability to climb vertical underwater surfaces – and paint them – it's known as the Crawfish.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Fraunhofer, Offshore Wind, Underwater, Remote Control
Scientists use drones for inexpensive ice prevention on wind turbines
Posted by ArielTechGeek 336 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Not unlike the wings of airplanes, the blades of wind turbines need to be kept ice-free in order to function properly. Scientists have now developed an inexpensive method of using drones to apply an eco-friendly anti-icing coating to those blades.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, TechnologyTags: Fraunhofer, Wind turbine, Ice
Extraordinary contra-rotating floating wind turbines to begin testing
Posted by ArielTechGeek 371 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design that could scale to unprecedented size and power.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Floating offshore wind, Offshore Wind, Wind turbine, Wind Power, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Wind
Pivoting arms could stabilize massive floating offshore wind turbines
Posted by ArielTechGeek 557 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
As we've discussed many times before, offshore wind represents an enormous opportunity for clean energy, but some of the best resources are out in deep water, where sinking a shaft straight into the sea bed becomes prohibitively expensive and difficult.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Floating, Offshore Wind, Wind Power, Wind turbine
the wind power plant has received grants to support its design, testing, technology, and cost estimate.
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the wind turbines and solar panels of powerNEST also rely on the ‘venturi effect’ to dramatically increase wind speed over the turbine.
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turbulent electrifies remote locations with low-maintenance vortex turbines
Posted by judy82 663 days ago (https://www.designboom.com)
turbulent states that its vortex turbines can power communities, cities, and villages with 50 to 500 households, 24/7 and all year round.
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T-Omega re-thinks floating offshore wind turbines for huge cost savings
Posted by ArielTechGeek 789 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
All the world's greatest wind power resources are offshore – often a long way offshore, where the water's so deep that it's impractical to build typical fan-on-a-stick wind turbines with bases sunk deep into the sea floor. Floating wind, at this stage, is so vastly expensive to build, deploy and maintain that it ends up costing two to three times as much per kilowatt-hour of energy as fixed-botto
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