A Wind Turbine Acting Like a Palm Tree Delivers Five Times the Electricity

The project promises to advance the technology fivefold; a 50-MW wind turbine does not now exist. Recent advances are only now producing 8-MW and 10-MW machines with a conventional three-blade design. "There’s no guarantee this is going to work," notes Loth. "It is a longshot."

If successful, that longshot could propel wind power to grab a 20% share of U.S. production capacity by 2030, one of the goals outlined in DOE’s recently updated Wind Vision Report.

by John Kosowatz

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