General Compression, Inc. (“GC”), a Massachusetts company developing a compressed air energy storage system that burns no fuel when generating electricity, has been selected to receive up to $750,000 in the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E GRIDS) funding program. The government grant will help move the development of General Compression’s Advanced Energy…
Can an air leak give turbine rotors an efficiency boost?
An idea originally developed to increase lift in slow moving aircraft wings and simplify helicopter rotors may soon improve the efficiency of wind turbine rotors and possibly reduce their cost of manufacturing. This “circulation control” aerodynamic technology could let wind turbines produce significantly more power than current devices at the same wind speed, 30 to…