Category: Energy

Improvements in composite turbine blades will power the wind energy industry. Wind is an increasingly important source of renewable energy. In 2015, wind power installations generated about 435 gigawatts...

A team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, led by Erik Spoerke along with Texas A&M professor Jaime Grunlan, is developing nanocomposite films made from inexpensive materials as barriers...

In its newest brochure for customers, Aliancys provides insight into co-processing, a recycling option for glass fiber reinforced thermoset composite materials. Co-processing is the simultaneous use of composite regrind...

Students from California Polytechnic State University’s Prototype Vehicles Laboratory (PROVE Lab) have designed a car to break the international land speed record for solar vehicles. The team consists of...

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has turned to 3D printing to reduce development costs for wind turbines. AMO has started building molds made from six-foot-tall, 3D...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used Cincinnati Incorporated’s CAMX-award winning Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) technology, to 3D print an entire table that contains 10 percent bamboo...

Adwen, a joint venture between wind turbine OEMs AREVA and Gamesa, partnered with long-time blade manufacturer LM Wind Power (Kolding, Denmark) to produce the longest blade in the world...

Last week, Carbon Conversions’ process of recycling carbon fiber from bicycles for Formula 1 race cars was featured on the Science Channel’s new series “Made by Destruction.” The premise...

Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated that carbon nanotubes have the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses...