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Winds of Change: Improvements for Wind Energy Production

WASHINGTON, October 12, 2021 — The development of wind energy, a renewable, emissions-free energy source, is widely acknowledged as an imperative to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and […]

How Do Wind Turbines Respond to Winds, Ground Motion During Earthquakes?

WASHINGTON, August 24, 2021 — As China’s economic development continues, energy demand is rising along with it. Meeting this energy demand via fossil fuels is becoming increasingly […]

Turning Hazelnut Shells into Potential Renewable Energy Source

WASHINGTON, August 24, 2021 — Biomass is attracting growing interest from researchers as a source of renewable, sustainable, and clean energy. It can be converted into bio-oil […]

Sensor Data Identifies Turbine Wake Clustering, Improves Wind Farm Productivity Via Yaw Control

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2021 — In the wind power industry, optimization of yaw, the alignment of a wind turbine’s angle relative to the horizonal plane, has long […]

Steering Wind Turbines Creates Greater Energy Potential

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 — As wind passes through a turbine, it creates a wake that decreases the downstream average wind velocity. The faster the spin of […]

Pretreating Nuisance Green Algae with Lye, Urea Increases Bacterial Production of Biogas

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 – For more than 60 years, algae have been studied as a potential feedstock for biofuel production, but the cellulose in their cell […]

Wake Steering Potentially Boosts Energy Production at US Wind Plants

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2021 — Wake steering is a strategy employed at wind power plants involving misaligning upstream turbines with the wind direction to deflect wakes away […]

Shining, Colored LED Lighting on Microalgae for Next-Generation Biofuel

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2021 — As ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuels continue to present challenges, such as competing with food security or lacking the technology for more […]

Low-Level Jets Create Winds of Change for Turbines

WASHINGTON, February 23, 2021 — As one of the leading sources of clean and renewable energy, global wind power capacity has increased more than fivefold over the […]