[Rick] has been building Tesla turbines in various ways and posting his projects to youtube. For those who are unfamiliar, a tesla turbine is a fanless turbine that uses a smooth central disk spun ...

The lovingly named SI-270150 turbine features 430-ft-long blades (131 m), making for a maximum swept area of 616,298 sq ft (57,256 sq m). That's equivalent to nearly 11 American football fields.

Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard. It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. Between last September and this March, it will become the final ...

It’s usually much easier just to throw a few panels and a battery together than it is to have a working turbine with many moving parts that need to be maintained when only a small amount of ...

If that calls to mind flat-pack furniture and meatballs, you're wrong. If you answered "a wooden wind turbine", you could be a visionary. According to Modvion, the Swedish start-up that has just ...

Homeowners considering solar as a backup for grid power or as a standalone energy source should take a second look at supplementing their photovoltaic (PV) panels with wind turbines. Wind power is ...

NREL Advances Method for Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Aug. 27, 2024 — Researchers see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled ...

Hydro turbines convert water pressure into mechanical energy. When used with an electrical generator, the movement of the turbine’s runners or propellers turns a shaft to produce electricity. There ...

Mitsubishi Power, a member of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, started its gas-turbine business in the 1960s. In the 1990s, the growing need for energy security to reduce Japan’s dependence on ...

Turbine pumps are special types of centrifugal pumps which use turbine-like impellers with radially oriented teeth to move fluid. They are also referred to as vortex, periphery, or regenerative pumps.

Wind turbine technicians, also known as wind techs, are the professionals in charge of inspecting and maintaining wind turbines. That means that most of their days are spent way up high in a ...

Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more ...