A Hydrogen-filled Wind Turbine!

A Hydrogen-filled Wind Turbine!
In Ontario, Canada, the company “LTA Windpower is developing a revolutionary type of wind turbine. In fact, it’s not really correct to describe it as a turbine at all. It’s more like a blimp with two spinning propellers. It’s called the PowerShip. oh, and it’s filled with hydrogen gas. Yep, the one that’s very inflammable and… Read the rest

WIND TURBINES DESIGNS – The World’s Most Amazing Windmills Designs

WIND TURBINES DESIGNS – The World’s Most Amazing Windmills Designs
A journey through the evolution of the most spectacular wind turbines designs in the world Looking for an environmentally friendly energy source while looking gracious, aesthetic and beautiful? This article is a journey through the evolution of the most spectacular WIND TURBINES DESIGNS in the world. The answer is blowing in the wind! Wind turbines float… Read the rest

New Type of Turbine Designed in English University

New Type of Turbine Designed in English University
Here on the MWPS web pages we often feature new innovative designs to capture wind energy.  Few ever make it beyond the drawing board or prototype stage, and therefore the standard three-bladed wind turbines continue to be seen (although getting bigger year by year). However, a Derbyshire inventor has teamed up with Nottingham’s Trent University and… Read the rest

A Revolutionary Bladeless Turbine is Unveiled

A Revolutionary Bladeless Turbine is Unveiled
A wind turbine without blades? Is that possible?? Yes! Vortex Bladeless have demonstrated how their turbines generate electricity from the wind through movement of the mast- and not a blade in sight! It may be that you have got very blasé about wind turbines. After all, they’ve been around for quite a few decades and are… Read the rest

Flying High: Blimp “BAT” for Alaska!

Flying High: Blimp “BAT” for Alaska!
Alaska is considered to be the top of the world (or at least the top of the American continent) and it will soon be on top of the wind turbine stakes. The city of Fairbanks, Alaska, will soon have a resident in the form of the world’s highest wind turbine called Altaeros.  The helium-filled turbine blimp… Read the rest

Harnessing Wind Power in New Ways

Harnessing Wind Power in New Ways
Dr. Daryoush Alleai is an engineer and pioneer and founder of a company called Sheerwind, which has developed an innovative wind turbine called Invelox that has no blades. Here is a glimpse of his thought processes that led to the creation of the bladeless turbine: “What if you could scoop the air? Scoop it and move… Read the rest

New Research Reveals The Robustness of Wind Turbines

New Research Reveals The Robustness of Wind Turbines
When a wind turbine blade becomes dislocated, or the gears catch fire, the anti-wind lobby are quick to post videos to gloat and condemn. Yet those occurrences are very rare and new research from the authoritative, 100 years-old, UK Imperial College Business School has shown that wind turbines can remain productive for up to a quarter… Read the rest

Wind Power and Wildlife Can Co-Exist

Wind Power and Wildlife Can Co-Exist
Despite the fact that our production of non-renewable energy has for many years adversely affected our environment, and wildlife (the London smog caused by factory chimney smoke in the 1950’s killed thousands of birds as well as people!), the complaints about the evils of wind power to birds and bats continues to be voiced.  It seems… Read the rest

New Turbines at EWEA Biannual Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition

New Turbines at EWEA Biannual Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition
For three days at the end of last month in Frankfurt, international exhibitors displayed their new offshore turbines and wind-related products, such as a huge HVAC submarine cable, and some offshore foundation developments to support the turbines. Here’s a selection of what was presented that we will expect to see in 2014 and beyond: Samsung showed… Read the rest