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Sandia National Laboratories: Back to Drawing Board - Reinventing Offshore Wind Turbines
August 17, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release on Aug. 16, 2022:

Brandon Ennis, Sandia National Laboratories' offshore wind technical lead, had a radically new idea for offshore wind turbines: instead of a tall, unwieldy tower with blades at the top, he imagined a towerless turbine with blades pulled taut like a bow.

This design would allow the massive generator that creates el . . .

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