How do you set up a 120m, 2.3MW floating wind turbine 20km offshore? And once there how do you stand it up? One Norwegian company has devised a simple and elegant solution. More »
This is insane. A freakishly powerful gust of wind blew a one-ton metal shack off the ground and onto a man. You can see the shack rolling, hitting power cables, knocking the man over and presumably smashing a car too. I don’t know how you can still be alive after dealing with that metal shack on top of you but according to news reports, the man is alive and well. More »
A German engineered vehicle called ‘Wind Explorer’ has managed to travel 5000km across Australia, using a combination of lithium batteries, a wind turbine and a large kite of all things. More »
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Google is positioned to be a major investor in a proposed transmission line for offshore wind farms on the Atlantic seaboard, a bold plan that could radically reshape the electrical map in the region. More »
