Wind turbines are a fantastic, cheap, renewable source of energy. However, nothing lasts forever, and over time, the blades of wind turbines fatigue and must be replaced. This then raises the question ...

An industrial wind turbine is a complex machine made up of hundreds of moving parts, but it takes just three of them to make the magic possible: the blades. Wind turbine blades harvest energy from ...

Even as investigations continue into what caused the blade on Vineyard Wind turbine AW-38 to collapse last month, sending splintered fiberglass, rigid foam and balsa wood into the ocean, limited ...

Turbines are slowly being inspected and turned back on after a blade flew off one at a wind farm on Wolfe Island last week.

DES MOINES - Iowa-based electric utility MidAmerican Energy has idled nearly four dozen power-generating wind turbines after huge blades broke off two turbines in recent weeks. MidAmerican has paused ...

As we transition to a green economy, we’re generating waste that, if we aren’t careful, isn’t so green. We looked at barriers and opportunities around three of the most challenging types of clean ...

A couple of years ago, headlines all over the world were pointing out that one of the symbols of the renewable energy revolution had “skeletons” in the ground. Literally. Namely, end-of-life blades ...

For all their virtues, wind turbines have one major flaw: they’re notoriously difficult to recycle. Wind blades are designed to last about 20 or 25 years. After that, there are currently two viable ...

The wind turbines arrived in Gloucester at the same time I did. My husband and I moved into a cheap third-floor apartment in the small coastal city in northern Massachusetts in November 2012, just as ...

If you’ve heard President Trump talk about wind power, you’ve heard stories about dead birds: “You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look . . . Go under a windmill someday. You’ll see ...