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As much as wind turbines are great for producing clean energy, disposing of them when the time comes can be challenging. Researchers in China have hit upon a clever way to use discarded blades to ...

The blade section was manufactured by ÉireComposites (Ireland) and includes a non-woven mat made from pyrolysed glass fibres recovered from Gjenkraft’s patent-pending pyrolysis process developed in ...

For most of the modern wind era, the graceful, three-bladed rotor has been considered the only reliable choice for utility-scale machines. Earlier two-blade experiments in the 1980s and 1990s suffered ...

Vineyard Wind plans to remove an unspecified number of blades from existing turbines after conducting scans and quality checks in response to a mid-July breakdown that cast debris into the ocean, ...