Posts from December 18, 2023

• When wind turbine blades get old what's next?
  Between 85 and 95% of a turbine's materials, such as steel, aluminium, and copper, can be easily recycled, but the blades are a different matter.
• US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
  Recent $74m investment made alongside assessment that 10% of electricity could be generated by geothermal by 2050
• Blade tweak boosts vertical-axis wind turbine efficiency by 200%
  Two VAWT blade profiles enhance efficiency by 200% and reduce damaging vibrations by 77%, optimizing turbine performance.
• Virginia could make almost $5B from this 3.5 GW offshore wind farm
  Avangrid’s 3.5 gigawatt (GW) Kitty Hawk Wind could deliver around $5 billion in economic impact across Virginia – here’s where the project stands.
• Water is life. It’s also energy — whether you like dams or hate them
  The rain and snow that have drenched California and much of the American West over the last few months — at least relative to some of the hellishly dry years we’ve gotten recently — are a blessing not just for water supplies, but for energy.

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