China launched a flying wind turbine 2,000 meters into the sky. Discover how this floating tech could deliver ultra-cheap ...
Wind turbines usually jut up from the ground like giant pinwheels. Now a company in China is exploring a new form factor: flying wind turbines. These zeppelin-like aircraft float high in the sky, ...
Danish renewables giant Ørsted is deploying heavy-lift cargo drones for the first time in an operational campaign at a Dutch offshore wind farm. The heavy-lift cargo drone will transport cargo from a ...
Ørsted says it’s now the world’s first offshore wind company to use autonomous giant drones to transport cargo to turbines. Ørsted is trialing the 128-pound (58 kg) drones at the UK’s Hornsea 1 ...
These quirky designs will fly wind power into the future—or so their inventors hope. Measuring anywhere from 18 to 200 feet in length, these flying turbines by the five leading startup companies in ...
As Pentagon officials delay approval of wind farms, scientific studies show that they can distort radar systems, but the ...
A new kite carousel system has emerged from Italian engineers. The system can easily outperform an entire wind farm and could ...
Through the years there have been many designs aimed at harvesting high-altitude winds. The attraction of these schemes is that winds aloft blow harder and are more consistent than those near the ...
Wind power has become one of the pillars of the global energy transition, yet the basic silhouette of the modern turbine, a tall tower with three sweeping blades, has barely changed in decades. Now a ...