Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends ...

Norway's World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more ...

China has launched the world's first 16-MW floating wind turbine designed to power offshore oil production, supplying clean ...

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Hywind Tampen wind farm, Norway. Karoline Rivero Bernacki/Equinor, CC BY-NC-ND Growing demand for cleaner energy sources means offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. More than 5,000 ...

Thousands of tonnes of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are coming to the end of their lives.