Turbine Design Can Improve Offshore Wind Harvesting Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes. Though VAWTs have been around since the earliest days of wind energy research at Sandia and elsewhere, VAWT architecture could transform offshore wind technology.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/turbine-design-can-improve-offshore-wind-harvesting

Turbine Design Can Improve Offshore Wind Harvesting

Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes. Though VAWTs have been around since the earliest days of wind energy research at Sandia and elsewhere, VAWT architecture could transform offshore wind technology.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/turbine-design-can-improve-offshore-wind-harvesting