WindTronics is one of many wind companies trying to crack into the clean energy industry. Can it make wind power affordable and revitalize manufacturing at the same time? Martin LaMonica is a senior ...
The Wall of Wind can create Category 5 hurricane winds for testing life-size structures. Margi Rentis/Florida International University In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of ...
(The Conversation) – In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the ...
From a distance, a downburst can look like a torrent of heavy rain. But at ground level, its behavior can be far more destructive. When a downburst’s winds hit the ground, they shoot out horizontally ...
Wind turbine sizes and, specifically, rotor blade lengths and tower heights are increasing. CT recently highlighted power provider Alstom’s (Levallois-Perret Cedex, France) installation of ...
(CBS) --Architects and engineers spend a lot of time designing modern high-rises so they can handle the kind of wind gusts Chicago has experienced in recent days. Today's designs are tested in wind ...