In 2006, a team of architects were tasked with building a playground with volumes that kids could crawl into and play. Jos de Krieger—then an intern, now a partner at the Rotterdam-based architecture ...

In southern Sweden, the city of Lund has built a multi-story parking garage that clearly shows how people can reuse old materials in practical and creative ways. The project demonstrates that builders ...

Wind power has always been a trade off between clean energy and the visual, acoustic, and ecological cost of giant spinning ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Wind turbines are a fantastic, cheap, renewable source of energy. However, nothing lasts forever, and over time, the blades of wind turbines fatigue and must be replaced. This then raises the question ...

Drag-based wind energy design. Aiming to translate its expertise in manufacturing monocoque, ribbed components with thermoplastic microspheres, Xenecore is working to develop a fan-shaped, drag-based ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a low-cost carbon fiber that could lower the cost of blades for wind turbines. The fiber begins as widely available raw material used in the ...

On December 16, three 40 foot-long wind turbine blades were delivered via truck from a wind farm in Belfast to the Cork Institute of Technology in southern Ireland. For the next few months, civil ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany are developing plastic recyclable blades for offshore wind turbines to make the blades -- which are larger than conventional turbine blades -- easier ...

Making renewable energy greener. Wind energy is an increasingly popular form of renewable energy, but there are still aspects of the manufacturing, operation and end of life (EOL) of wind turbines ...