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Smooth Sailing: Space Launch System Giving Marshall, Langley Wind Tunnels a Workout
August 23, 2012 — Since well before the inception of NASA, engineers used wind tunnels and scale models to test how vehicles would respond and interact with the atmosphere. At the Marshall Space Flight Center in ... > full story -
Hot Solar Wind: Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind
August 17, 2012 — New research has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The solar wind rushes outwards from the raging inferno that is our Sun, but from then on the ... > full story -
US Wind Power Market Riding a Wave That Is Likely to Crest in 2012
August 14, 2012 — Facing looming policy uncertainty beyond 2012, the US remained one of the fastest-growing wind power markets in the world in 2011 -- second only to China -- according to a new report. Driven by the ... > full story -
A Model Designed to Balance the Bolting Load of Wind Turbines Developed
August 14, 2012 — A researcher has built a simplified simulation model for wind turbines. All one has to do is enter the characteristics that the tower and its parts will have, and in a matter of seconds the model ... > full story -
Wind Farms: A Danger to Ultra-Light Aircraft?
August 13, 2012 — Airfields for ultra-light aircraft are typically constructed on level ground -- and so are wind farms. However, do wind power plants generate turbulence that could endanger lightweight planes? A ... > full story -
Solar Power Day and Night: New Storage Systems Control Fluctuation of Renewable Energies
August 9, 2012 — Energy storage systems are one of the key technologies for the energy turnaround. With their help, the fluctuating supply of electricity based on photovoltaics and wind power can be stored until the ... > full story -
Unusual Weather Events Identified During 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia
August 8, 2012 — Research has revealed that the extremely hot, dry and windy conditions on Black Saturday in the Australian state of Victoria combined with structures in the atmosphere called 'horizontal convective ... > full story -
Usain Bolt Could Break His Own Record With the Help of Altitude and the Wind
August 2, 2012 — Imagine the following situation. The 100 meters finals in the London Olympic Games. The Jamaican Usain Bolt wins. Up to this point everything sounds normal except for the fact that he would break his ... > full story -
Breaking the Barriers for Low-Cost Energy Storage: Battery Could Help Transition to Renewable Energy Sources
August 1, 2012 — Scientists have developed an air-breathing battery that uses the chemical energy generated by the oxidation of iron plates that are exposed to the oxygen in the air -- a process similar to ... > full story -
Offshore Use of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines Gets Closer Look
July 30, 2012 — Wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore ... > full story
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