Wind turbines have grown so large over the past four decades that their blades alone now dwarf the machines that generated wind power when the industry was young. The newest offshore turbines carry ...

Today, most modern industrial-scale wind turbines rotate clockwise, but there's no fundamental engineering law, scientific benefit, or mathematical reasons that require them to do so. Rather, it's ...

You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have assembled a complete and consistent framework for unsteady ...

The increasing energy consumption of data centers is prompting administrators to explore and adopt sustainable energy solutions within their infrastructure. Wind turbines, which harness wind power, ...

A first-of-its-kind wind tunnel experiment shows that wind veer stretches turbine wakes into ellipses, accelerates their ...

Modern wind turbines dwarf the windmills of old, both in size and capability. We're far from the days of those smaller, wooden structures that were used to pump water or grind grain. Today's wind ...

Love them or loathe them, wind turbines look set to stay. The turbines have actually been a feature of the American landscape since 1941 after the first large-scale one to deliver electricity to the ...