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Are Vertical Axis Turbines the Future of Offshore Wind Power?

Vertical axis wind turbines, or VAWTs, have been around for many years. Generally they are considered less effective than the standard horizontal axis turbines that increasingly dot the landscape, but they do have their advantages. And as the U.S. pushes ... read more

Offshore use of vertical-axis wind turbines gets closer look

Credit: Josh Paquette and Matt Barone (Phys.org) -- Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs ... loading on the drivetrain. Unlike horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs), which maintain ... read more

Wind of change

Those machines were much smaller, and there was a wide variety of them, including models with two-bladed rotors spinning about a horizontal axis, and vertical-axis ... the boom, turbines began to be installed in large arrays, or “wind farms”. read more

Manufacturers, Researchers Quest for a Workable, Large-Scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Increasingly, the wind industry is becoming interested in what's known as the vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT ... VAWTs have other advantages over traditional, horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT), as well: because of the way they work, the turbines ... read more

Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines: The Future of Micro Wind? (Video)

The wind turbine has become the iconic of clean, renewable energy. But the classic three-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine ... space requirements and sound levels Other advantages of vertical-axis turbines: Can produce up to 50% more electricity per ... read more

Schools of fish help squeeze more power from wind farms

This new study uses "vertical axis" wind ... fish schooling and wind farms might seem non-intuitive at first, it is in fact a logical inference from the underlying flow physics." The advantages don't stop there. At 10m high, the turbines used in this ... read more

9 Weird Ways We Can Harness the Wind's Energy

If you picture a typical wind turbine, it'll probably look like a giant, triple-bladed fan. Called a horizontal-axis wind turbine, it is by far the most common way to harness energy from the wind, but at its core, this tech is hundreds of years old. read more

Small Wind Market Worth 1.89 Billion USD by 2019

PUNE, India, Aug 25, 2015 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) -- PUNE, India, August 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The report "Small Wind Market by Type (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine, Vertical Axis Wind Turbine ... emission-free power farms for homes and small ... read more

Caltech researchers find schooling fish offer new ideas for wind farming

The biggest challenge with current wind farms is lack of space. The horizontal-axis wind turbines most commonly seen—those with large propellers—require ... that there may be substantial benefits to placing vertical-axis turbines in a strategic array ... read more