AMES, Iowa – The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Iowa State engineers $1 million to study how high-strength concrete can be used to build taller wind turbine towers. Sritharan said concrete ...

You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to ...

WIND TOWER DELIVERED – Students in the Wind Turbine Service Technician program at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College pose with the newly delivered tower that will be erected on the DSLCC campus in ...

Maybe you’ve heard of a solar updraft tower, a tall, hollow cylindrical tower where sunlight heats the air at the base of the tower and creates a chimney effect, causing air to rapidly shoot upward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last turbine tower parts and some blades leave The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal on Jan. 28, after a federal judge ...

The project is part of a high-profile renovation and upgrade to the first floor of the monument. Located above the second level for its wind conditions, the turbines are now producing 10,000 ...