Energy

Last February, France’s minister of ecology and energy, Ségolène Royal, announced the country’s intention to, over the next five years, pave 1,000 km of roads with a composite material that can adapt to...

Block Island Wind Farm, the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, is officially running operations. The wind farm, developed by Deepwater Wind, LLC, produces 30 megawatts of energy through...

In its newest brochure for customers, Aliancys provides insight into co-processing, a recycling option for glass fiber reinforced thermoset composite materials. Co-processing is the simultaneous use of...

British sustainable technology company Pavegen has transformed one sidewalk in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., into a kinetic power generator. The company installed 194 triangular glass-reinforced plastic...

Students from California Polytechnic State University’s Prototype Vehicles Laboratory (PROVE Lab) have designed a car to break the international land speed record for solar vehicles. The team consists of 70...

During K 2016, an annual materials conference in Europe, a research team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) showed progress on its Wind Blade Using Cost‐Effective Advanced Composite...