Wind Energy News

Posted June 2, 2009:

• Magnetic Tornadoes Could Liberate Mercury's Tenuous Atmosphere

Posted May 28, 2009:

• Lightweight Wings For A High-Flying Kite

Posted May 21, 2009:

• Wings That Waggle Could Cut Aircraft Emissions By 20%

Posted May 8, 2009:

• Thermal Conductivity Of Seafloor

Posted May 7, 2009:

• Flight Of The Bumble Bee Is Based More On Brute Force Than Aerodynamic Efficiency

Posted May 1, 2009:

• 'Smart Turbine Blades' To Improve Wind Power

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Neural Networks Used To Improve Wind Speed Forecasting

Posted April 3, 2009:

• Young Pulsar Shows Its Hand

Posted March 25, 2009:

• Erratic Black Hole Regulates Itself

Posted March 23, 2009:

• Why Parachutists Die

Posted March 12, 2009:

• Mechanism Discovered For Wind Detection In Fruit Flies' Antennae

Posted March 11, 2009:

• New Renewables To Power 40 Per Cent Of Global Electricity Demand By 2050
• Controllable Rubber Trailing Edge Flap To Reduce Loads On Wind Turbine Blades

Posted March 2, 2009:

• Future Helicopters Get SMART
• Cassini Maps Global Pattern Of Titan's Dunes

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Hot Solar Winds: Energy Simulation Explains Physical Mystery Of Voyager Spacecraft

Posted February 23, 2009:

• Dutch Electricity System Can Cope With Large-Scale Wind Power

Posted February 10, 2009:

• Semantic Web Promises A Smarter Electricity Grid

Posted February 4, 2009:

• Wind Power Forecasting For The US

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Freak Waves May Be Sinking Ships Off The Coast Of Japan

Posted January 21, 2009:

• 'Smart' Fridges Stay Cool By Talking To Each Other

Posted January 19, 2009:

• Bobsled Design: Hammerhead On The Test Bed
• Robot Inspects Wind Energy Converters

Posted January 7, 2009:

• How Martian Winds Make Rocks Walk
• Tilting At Wind Farms

Posted December 19, 2008:

• Stronger Coastal Winds Due To Climate Change May Have Far-Reaching Effects

Posted December 16, 2008:

• Answers To Huge Wind-Farm Problems Are Blowin' In The Wind

Posted December 15, 2008:

• Breathing Cycles In Earth's Upper Atmosphere Tied To Solar Wind Disturbances
• Vendee Globe Round-the-World Yacht Race Seen From Above

Posted December 10, 2008:

• Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy

Posted December 6, 2008:

• Wind Screen Collects Cool Air To Help Save The Rhône Glacier In Switzerland

Posted December 1, 2008:

• How Wildlife Corridors Work Over Time

Posted November 21, 2008:

• 'Fish Technology' Draws Renewable Energy From Slow Water Currents

Posted November 13, 2008:

• New System Proposed To Optimize Combined Energy Use

Posted November 5, 2008:

• Fingers, Loops And Bays In The Crab Nebula's Pulsar Wind Viewed By Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Posted October 12, 2008:

• Space Fly-by Reveals New Insights Into Titan's Life

Posted October 3, 2008:

• Scientists Design A Chip To Measure The Wind On Mars

Posted October 1, 2008:

• Hidden Boundaries Of Sunspots Pump Out Plasma Into Interplanetary Space
• Ecologists Allay Fears For Farmland Birds From Wind Turbines

Posted September 24, 2008:

• Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low, Ulysses Spacecraft Reveals

Posted September 16, 2008:

• Breakthrough In Energy Storage: New Carbon Material Shows Promise Of Storing Large Quantities Of Renewable Electrical Energy

Posted September 11, 2008:

• Hurricane Ike Tracked By European Space Agency's Envisat

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Global Warming: Warmer Seas Linked To Strengthening Hurricanes, According to New Research

Posted September 2, 2008:

• New Methods To Protect Wind Generators During Voltage Dips Developed

Posted August 28, 2008:

• Cluster Watches Earth's Leaky Atmosphere

Posted August 27, 2008:

• Wind-Powered 'Ventomobile' Places First in Race

Posted August 25, 2008:

• Why Wind Turbines Can Mean Death For Bats
• Building A Stronger Roof Over Your Head: 'Three Little Pigs' Project Begins First Tests

Posted August 20, 2008:

• Southampton Wind Tunnel Blows Gold In Beijing

Posted August 17, 2008:

• Olympic Swimmers Shattering Records In NASA-Tested Suit

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