This vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) uses five 3” PVC pipes cut in half for blades rotating on three kids bicycle wheels to spin an Ametek 38 volt motor or a wind blue alternator.The whole ...

Above: A robot designed improve safety and efficiency of wind turbine blade repair. Top Image: Team members from left to right: Peter Booras, Sam Brown, Jake Geraci, Daniel Llorca, Zhenhua Lu, Patrick ...

this has noticeably increased the speed of especially the blade tips. With more and more wind turbine blade tips now exceeding speeds of 100 m/s, this has also meant a significant increase in the ...

Similar solutions are being tested elsewhere that use different methodologies but have the same overarching goal of breaking down the materials used in wind turbine blades. Vestas Wind Systems ...

Fran Scott explores how PhD student Jon Sumanik-Leary from the University of Sheffield is developing a DIY wind turbine for isolated ... and draw your blade design. Trace the design onto card ...

Instead of using cloth to catch the wind like Prof Blyth and the ancient Iranians, today's turbine blades are built from composite materials - older blades from glass fibre, newer ones from carbon ...

The world's first urban wind turbine designed to be tailored to the ... and precision metal fabricators. The "Birmingham Blade" has been designed by EvoPhase and KwikFab to address a substantial ...

MOSCOW, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom launched a wind turbine blade factory at the location of a plant formerly owned by Denmark's Vestas (VWS.CO), opens new tab ...