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Engineers build record-breaking wind turbine with material no one saw coming: ‘It’s not difficult to envision’

Photo: Freepik Modvion is building on the success of its record-breaking wood-based wind turbine tower built in 2023 by raising the bar another 16 meters. The Sweden-based company has received design certification for its tallest engineered-wood tower to date, measuring 119 meters tall, according to IEEE Spectrum. It was designed to support a 6.4-megawatt turbine from Danish company Vestas, although…

Council gets £762k for energy improvements

photo:  freepik A Devon council has been awarded more than £760,000 of funding to deliver energy efficiency improvements to some of its buildings. North Devon Council said £762,065 from the government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme would be used to improve Ilfracombe’s Landmark Theatre and the Brynsworthy Environment Centre in Fremington. Improvements funded by the grant…

Could drones be a threat to offshore energy installations?

photo: freepik There’s a pincer movement on offshore energy installations around Scotland’s coast – on one side from the rapid development of drones, from the other, their growing use in hostilities. As Ukrainians know well, the threat comes from the air. But it can also be afloat, with underwater sabotage a major new theatre of…