Sandia segmented morphing rotor blade design could enable 50MW offshore wind turbines with 200-meter blades

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By mmillikinJan 29, 2016, 12:39 pm201 pts
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working on a new design for 200-meter blades that could enable offshore 50MW wind turbines. Sandia’s work on extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program.…

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