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03/24/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New “smart blade” technology will make wind turbines even more efficient

The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (Fraunhofer IWES) is testing a new rotor blade that incorporates bend-twist coupling (BTC) technology. Wind turbines equipped with the new blade can get the most out of fluctuating winds, reported an AlphaGalileo article. The German wind energy sector leads its European peers by a good margin. Germany operates more than 28,000 wind turbines, and […]

07/09/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Wind turbines could be made less noisy by copying serrated wing edges from owls

A new study that was done by a team of experts from Japan and China, and which was published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics on Wednesday, July 5, showed the possibility of using concepts that can be gleaned from the unique wing features of owls to make the motion of wind turbines and aircraft […]

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