Contact: Stephanie Holinka
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DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

VAWT Blades

Caption: Basing their work on decades of wind energy research and experience, Sandia engineers are creating several concept designs, running those designs through modern modeling software and narrowing those design options down to a single, most-workable design for a VAWT turbine-blade. Results aren’t in, but the early favorite for further testing is the Darrieus design.

Credit: (Illustration by Josh Paquette and Matt Barone)

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