But now a super power wind turbine has come along that may be just what the renewable energy industry needs. The MagLev wind turbine, which was first unveiled at the Wind Power Asia exhibition in ...

According to developers, the technology is capable of scaling to massive sizes, with a proposed $53M turbine able enough to replace 1000 traditional windmills and power 750 thousand homes.

Because the moving parts wouldn't touch, the turbines would be virtually frictionless and could capture energy from winds as slow as 1.5 meters (5 feet) per second. Maglev turbines could lower the ...

Vertical wind turbines put pressure on bearings, but one company, Enviro Energies, has a better idea: maglev or magnetic levitation of the turbine so that it will turn, not on bearings that need ...

By "improvements" I don't mean oddball ideas like the Maglev Wind Turbine or designer Philippe Starck's stylish home turbine. Such creativity will inevitably run into the iron rule of energy ...

In Maglev systems, magnets are composed of high-temperature superconductors which can convey electrical currents with zero resistance, even in ambient outdoor temperatures. Two different forces ...