The site will include a massive foundation, a lifting platform, and worker facilities. Although it will be built to handle a ...
It’s commonly believed that new wind power generation will displace coal and natural gas-fueled power plants and thereby avoid all their associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as carbon ...
In fact, the turbines were able to reach an efficiency of 53%, which is just shy of Betz's Law, a theorem that says no wind turbine would be able to convert more than about 59.3% of wind energy into ...
The first U.S. offshore wind farm was built in 2016 off Rhode Island's Block Island. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in ...
For decades, offshore wind energy engineers and scientists have researched and made the pitch that coastal wind energy can supply needed energy to the grid, emission-free, that will spin for decades ...
This story was originally published by The Conversation. Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines ...
China’s wind boom is usually framed as a climate story, a race to build turbines fast enough to keep up with soaring ...
President Donald Trump’s move to pause five major offshore wind power projects is a setback for tapping one of the greatest resources on the East Coast. | Opinion ...