Just in time for the beginning of the hurricane season, the University of Florida (UF) engineers have built the world's largest portable hurricane wind simulator. Mounted on a trailer, the device is ...
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have developed a portable wind and rain simulator that can create a hurricane environment in a laboratory setting for scientific study. The unique device, ...
The University of Iowa's bid to become the U.S. Department of Energy's designated test lab for supersize wind turbines received a boost Tuesday from the Iowa Power Fund Board. The board authorized ...
It will huff, and puff, and blow the house in -- but only for research purposes. Wind engineers just unveiled the world's largest portable hurricane wind and rain simulator. Civil and coastal ...
There's one wind-turbine simulator in the nation used in a classroom. It's at Clinton Community College. The training unit is one of several distinctions the school has achieved in the area of wind ...
Wind engineers have created the world’s largest portable hurricane simulator, which they will use to blow over vacant buildings with Katrina-strength winds to test how they withstand the fierce forces ...
The construction of the SCE&G Innovation Center, Clemson University's wind turbine drivetrain test facility in North Charleston, S.C., couldn't have proved more challenging, considering the site ...
Where on the planet are people's hats being knocked off by roaring wind? Where are the ghastly doldrums, where the air's so still not a single leaf rustles? The simulation relies on the raw power of ...
Here’s the new Volvo in-house wind tunnel simulator, a 28 million dollar facility that is the first in its class to have a road simulator. In theory, it will allow the Swedish manufacturer to ...
Experience the challenge of hauling a huge wind turbine blade across stunning landscapes in American Truck Simulator!
LONG BEACH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - Offshore wind power is coming to New York for the first time, and it would be the largest wind farm in the nation to date. As CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reports, a video ...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) --It won't be long before offshore wind is powering homes in Maryland, but with so few examples of completed wind farms in the United States, it's hard to fully imagine what a ...