Wind turbine blades: inside the battle to overcome their waste problem

Wind farm owners are keeping old turbines in service to capitalise on high electricity prices.

Paul Leahy, Lecturer in Wind Energy, University College Cork • conversation
Nov. 28, 2023 ~8 min

Offshore windfarms could offer new habitats for lobsters – new research

New research shows European lobsters are using the deposits of rocks and boulders at the base of wind turbines as shelter.

David Wilcockson, Reader in Biological Sciences, Aberystwyth University • conversation
July 11, 2023 ~6 min


The world needs hundreds of thousands more offshore wind turbines – where will they all go?

The UK needs to use at least 7% of its available ocean space for offshore wind.

Susan Gourvenec, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton • conversation
July 4, 2023 ~7 min

How do floating wind turbines work? 5 companies just won the first US leases for building them off California's coast

Some of the most powerful offshore wind is over water too deep for a standard wind turbine. Engineers found a way around the problem.

Matthew Lackner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst • conversation
Dec. 8, 2022 ~7 min

How do floating wind turbines work? With 5 companies winning the first US leases to build wind farms off California's coast, let's take a look

Some of the most powerful offshore wind is over water too deep for a standard wind turbine. Engineers found a way around the problem.

Matthew Lackner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst • conversation
Dec. 8, 2022 ~7 min

Wind turbines can breathe new life into our warming seas

Their underwater foundations cause different layers of the ocean to mix together.

Tom Rippeth, Professor of Physical Oceanography, Bangor University • conversation
March 4, 2022 ~5 min

Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste

Wind turbines often can produce more power than is needed for electricity onshore. That extra energy could be put to work capturing and storing carbon.

David Goldberg, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University • conversation
Jan. 25, 2022 ~8 min

Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term, saving money – a geophysicist explains how

Wind turbines often can produce more power than is needed. That extra energy could be put to work capturing and storing carbon.

David Goldberg, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University • conversation
Jan. 25, 2022 ~8 min


Reindeer: ancient migration routes disrupted by roads, dams – and now wind farms

The Arctic is particularly vulnerable to climate change, but efforts to tackle it risk alienating the people who live there.

Simone Abram, Professor in the Dept of Anthropology, Co-Director of Durham Energy Institute, Durham University • conversation
Feb. 8, 2021 ~7 min

Onshore wind farm restrictions continue to stifle Britain's renewable energy potential

Despite Boris Johnson's newfound enthusiasm for offshore wind farms, the UK risks going backwards on wind power capacity.

Rebecca Windemer, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planning and Energy, Cardiff University • conversation
Oct. 12, 2020 ~6 min

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