Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more ...

On average, an offshore wind turbine experiences 8.3 failures per year. Some components, depending on the turbine type, are particularly vulnerable to defects—typically the generator ...

These types of composites are cured and can’t easily be undone and returned to their original materials. The first generation of modern wind turbines made of composites from the 1990s are now ...

We4Ce, a Dutch rotor blade designer, has designed 10 rotor blade sets for Dutch wind turbine startup TouchWind for testing on ...

A team of researchers at Washington State University has found a cleaner, simpler way to recycle wind turbine blades and turn ...