Sometimes it starts with an old concrete dam that has been sitting there for decades, holding back water but producing no ...

As the technology evolves, wind turbines are beginning to come in all shapes and sizes. We’ve told you recently about the design of turbines as large as a football field for offshore wind farms, but ...

We feature a lot of off-grid power projects here at Hackaday, whether they’re a micropower harvester or something to power a whole house. Somewhere in the middle lies [esposcar90]’s 3D-printed ...

While renewable energy offers many opportunities for decentralizing energy production, it can sometimes feel that doing so on a truly local level remains unachievable with increasingly large ...

A couple of students in American Falls are ending the school year with a successful project that could even end up spreading ...

Additive Manufacturing Enables Faster Prototyping and Unique Design Capabilities for Wind Tunnel Models EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. & REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) today ...

Thousands of U.S. dams are wasting potential. See how 3D-printed turbines are turning old concrete into clean, renewable power.

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center made headlines last year when they used the world’s largest polymer 3D printer to construct a functioning watercraft. Now, this same ...

UMaine researchers aim to recycle wind turbine blades as 3D printing material A team of University of Maine researchers have secured a $75,000 grant to explore recycling wind blades as feedstock for ...

Alex Ryan (at left) and Cameron Jordan (at right) work in the DREAMS Lab with Chris Williams as he explains the multiple aspects of a large multi-axis robotic arm 3D printer. The average wind turbine ...