HOW WIND IS INNOVATING

Where Is The Real Innovation In Wind Energy?

Mike Barnard, April 21, 2014 (Clean Technica)

“Wind energy is a tremendous success story worldwide, with staggering amounts of innovation…Innovation has two flavours: disruptive and incremental…The wind industry centred around the iconic three-blade horizontal axis wind turbine is an example of a disruptive innovation…[that happened through these incremental technical innovations] over the past forty years: Wind turbine height…Mechanical efficiency…Specialization...Aerodynamic improvements…Optimized maintenance…Robustness…Wind modeling…Advanced materials…Advanced coatings…There is tremendous ongoing innovation in wind power generation…[T]he same story can be told about photovoltaic solar generation…” click here for more

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