Powering navigational buoys with help of ocean waves
To find a power source for buoys, look no further than the ocean itself.
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Offshore wind turbines could number 30,000 by 2030: New ideas in ocean engineering are needed to install them
The UK is planning to install 40 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030—enough to provide electricity to every home in the country. This would require 5,000 wind turbines—double the number installed offshore worldwide ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Data identifies turbine wake clustering, improves wind farm productivity via yaw control
In the wind power industry, optimization of yaw, the alignment of a wind turbine's angle relative to the horizonal plane, has long shown promise for mitigating wake effects that cause a downstream turbine to produce less ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Renewable energy OK, but not too close to home
When it comes to transitioning from carbon-based to renewable source energy systems, Americans are on board. They're less keen, however, having these new energy infrastructures—wind turbines or solar farms—built close ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Overcoming rough seas hurdle in offshore wind farm maintenance
How can work on offshore wind turbines be carried out in bad weather? Combining smart software with robotics maintenance can increase wind farm vessel working hours by 35%, researchers say.
Jul 13, 2021
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Steering wind turbines creates greater energy potential
As wind passes through a turbine, it creates a wake that decreases the downstream average wind velocity. The faster the spin of the turbine blades relative to the wind speed, the greater the impact on the downstream wake ...
Jun 29, 2021
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How to build a better wind farm
Location, location, location—when it comes to the placement of wind turbines, the old real estate adage applies, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's Enrico ...
Jun 29, 2021
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How shipping ports are being reinvented for the green energy transition
When it comes to launching the energy transition, maritime policy is one of the key battlegrounds. But many ports, aware of their ecological and economic vulnerability, have committed to sustainable development strategies.
Jun 21, 2021
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Are wind farms slowing each other down?
The expansion of wind energy in the German Bight and the Baltic Sea has accelerated enormously in recent years. The first systems went into operation in 2008. Today, wind turbines with an output of around 8,000 megawatts ...
Jun 3, 2021
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Artificial intelligence enables smart control and fair sharing of resources in energy communities
Energy communities will play a key role in building the more decentralized, less carbon intensive, and fairer energy systems of the future. Such communities enable local prosumers (consumers with own generation and storage) ...
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Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a rotating machine which converts the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator, wind power unit (WPU), or wind energy converter (WEC).
This article discusses electric power generation machinery. The windmill article discusses machines used for grain-grinding, water pumping, etc. The article on wind power describes turbine placement, economics and public concerns. The wind energy section of that article describes the distribution of wind energy over time, and how that affects wind-turbine design.
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