Technological Advancement
Reinventing the Windmill
Unlike blade spinning wind turbines, there are other options for wind turbines. Today’s turbines are engineering marvels, taller, wider and lighter so that they can chase the very strongest gusts of wind. Wind in low speed areas where older turbines ignored can be harnessed by modern designs.
Brainy Blades Smart Systems
Wind turbines are now “smart.” They communicate with the cloud, track weather and send performance alerts. They also allow engineers to figure out how much power a turbine can put out, when exactly it might need a tune-up and save time and money in the process.
From Oceans to Rooftops
Wind is everywhere—that is, it is in the future. The strongest sea breezes make offshore wind farms the power generators of entire cities. And in urban spaces? Upwards, they showed vertical axis turbines appearing on rooftops with no wind better than any other direction possible at any time of the day.