Wind turbines are being reinvented left, right, and center. A Swedish company is developing a floating wind turbine system made up of 126 small turbines spinning in unison. An American designer has ...

For decades, companies eager to boost wind energy production have relied upon a simple strategy: make the turbine blades bigger. While generally effective, the approach has drawbacks. Namely, bigger ...

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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 ...

A turbine with one blade painted black at a wind farm near Glenrock, Wyoming. Courtesy of Jona Whitesides, Pacificorp This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories ...

In an RL-based control system, the turbine (or wind farm) controller is realized as an agent that observes the state of the ...