A 436-foot-long (133-meter-long), 73.8-ton (67-tonne) wind turbine blade was successfully loaded onto a ship at Yangzhou Port ...

The design uses a turbine hooked up to a small motor acting as a generator. To maximize the transfer of energy from the stream of water to the blades of ... the best-case power coming out of ...

And wind has long served as a power ... meter)-long blades. The wind spins the blades, which turn a shaft connected to a generator that produces electricity. The biggest wind turbines generate ...

Most wind turbines face the wind ... in Colorado—along with the wind vane and nacelle (which houses the gearbox) atop the tower. They then rewired the generator to spin the other way.