Supersize wind turbine may climate storms by bending like palm tree

There’s a restrict to how huge present wind turbine designs can get, which limits the facility they’ll produce, however a brand new method impressed by palm bushes may assist them scale up

By Madeleine Cuff

Wind generators taller than most skyscrapers, with blades that bend like palm bushes, may generate 50 megawatts (MW) of energy, based on an evaluation of a scaled-down prototype. This might be sufficient to energy about 15,000 US properties.

The most important present wind generators high out at round 300 metres tall, greater than twice the peak of the London Eye, and may generate 15MW of energy. Bigger generators produce extra energy, bringing down the general …