You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to ...

AMES, Iowa – Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked ...

And particularly the cranes involved; remember, the heaviest bit of a regular pinwheel-style wind turbine is the generator right at the top of the tower. With these towers now reaching several hundred ...

The wind turbine towers lined up at the Connecticut State Pier in New London sat right where they were for a month after President Trump ordered work stopped on Revolution Wind. It has since restarted ...

One such initiative is the Jeonnam Offshore Wind Power Project, a 96-megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm located in the Yellow Sea, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. It consists of ten turbines, each with a ...