We feature a lot of off-grid power projects here at Hackaday, whether they’re a micropower harvester or something to power a whole house. Somewhere in the middle lies [esposcar90]’s 3D-printed ...

For anyone with even the slightest bit of engineering interest, wind turbines are hard to resist. Everything about them is just so awesome, in the literal sense of the word — the size of the blades, ...

Additive Manufacturing Enables Faster Prototyping and Unique Design Capabilities for Wind Tunnel Models EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. & REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) today ...

Led by the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), the WIND REWIND team’s project “Blades for Large-Format Additive Manufacturing” marks a significant milestone in their mission to advance ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an award of $2,849,000 to the Composites Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC) of Purdue University (West Lafayette ...

A Dutch company has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by designing a 3D printed modular bridge that repurposes a decommissioned wind turbine blade as its main support structure. The Werkendam-based ...

Aerodynamics have always been an important part of automotive design. A lower drag coefficient means that it takes less energy for a vehicle to overcome air resistance, or more simply put: better fuel ...

Researchers have developed a 3D-printed device that generates twisting light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM), a form of rotational energy that can carry more data than regular beams.

Faced with the world's impending freshwater scarcity, researchers turned to solar steam generators, which are emerging as a promising device for seawater desalination. The team sought design ...