Daniel García is an Editor-in-Chief with strong expertise in structural work and engineering principles. He combines this technical foundation with deep knowledge of energy, spatial design, and emerging technologies, bringing a forward-thinking and analytical approach to editorial leadership.
Every wind turbine leaves a scar in the air behind it — a cone of slow, churning wind that can quietly rob the next turbine in…
A decade of continuous operational data from a 60-turbine offshore wind farm has just been made freely available to researchers — and that’s not something that…
In a wind tunnel in Oldenburg, two model turbines stand just centimeters apart — one spinning clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Their invisible wakes collide somewhere in…
Place a turbine on a hilltop, the logic goes, and faster winds translate into more power — with output rising as the cube of the speed…
Rain seems like the last thing engineers should worry about when designing a wind turbine. Yet at the tip of a spinning blade, a raindrop can…
Europe has set itself an ambitious target: renewables covering at least 42.5 percent of its electricity by 2030, with wind already supplying nearly a fifth of…
Wind farms lose a surprising share of their potential output to a simple problem: each turbine carves a corridor of depleted, slower-moving air — called a…
Offshore wind turbines don’t just spin — they also surge, sway, pitch, roll, and yaw as waves push against their floating platforms. Engineers have generally assumed…
By 2030, some 65 gigawatts of European wind turbines will have outlived their original 20-year design life — a looming wave of aging machines that operators…
Wind turbines are built to spin. But some of their most dangerous moments happen when they’re standing perfectly still. During installation, commissioning, or periods when a…
A modern wind turbine is a machine under constant negotiation with the atmosphere. Its blades flex and twist through thousands of load cycles every hour, its…
Every spinning wind turbine leaves a wake — a churning column of disturbed air that can stretch for miles and cut into the energy output of…
Wind farms are an exercise in compromise. Pack turbines too close together and each one robs momentum from those behind it, leaving a trail of slower,…
A 15-megawatt wind turbine rising 150 meters above the North Sea, its 240-meter rotor sweeping through ocean air, looks like an engineering problem that’s been solved.…
Deep inside a wind turbine’s hub, a 16-foot blade bearing rotates through millions of cycles over its service life, held together — and kept clean —…
Wind energy is expanding fast — but the economics aren’t keeping pace. Across Europe, auctions have failed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Lithuania. Projects…
In organic solar materials, crowding is usually the enemy. Pack the molecules too tightly, and they stop glowing — bleeding off energy as heat instead of…
Across parts of Europe, electricity prices occasionally turn negative — meaning the grid is so flooded with power that producers effectively pay to keep generating. For…
Wind farms have a geometry problem. Pack turbines too close together and each one robs the next of energy, leaving a trail of sluggish, depleted air…
Placing a wind turbine in rugged terrain sounds simple enough — until you need to know exactly how air accelerates over a ridge, curls around a…
Every day, billions of light bulbs, LED panels, and phone screens pour light into rooms — and almost none of that energy is ever captured. It…
At the center of a new solar cell sits a layer of silver so thin it would take roughly a thousand of them stacked together to…
Wind turbines are among the most mechanically demanding machines in modern energy infrastructure — massive rotating structures exposed around the clock to temperature swings, vibration, and…
Predicting how much power an offshore wind farm produces — and how much stress its turbines are accumulating — ideally happens fast enough to inform real-time…
Offshore wind turbines are built to survive storms. Their steel towers flex under hurricane-force gusts, and their control systems can feather blades in seconds to shed…
The southern North Sea is filling with wind turbines faster than any other sea basin on Earth — and the farms are running out of room…
Siting a wind farm or estimating structural loads on a solar array means running detailed fluid simulations — sometimes dozens of them — to understand how…
Since 2022, dozens of wind energy studies have drawn on the Kelmarsh open dataset — six turbines, eight years of records, freely available and widely trusted.…
A scientific paper claiming to identify a hard upper limit for offshore wind energy output landed in the Dutch parliament with considerable force. Policymakers were told…
Deliberately throttling a wind turbine sounds like leaving revenue on the table. Run it slower, generate less electricity, earn less money — the logic seems airtight.…
Offshore wind turbines planted in hurricane-prone waters are engineered to endure the most violent storms on earth. But for years, the wind models and wave models…
Wind farm operators already accept a counterintuitive tradeoff: when turbines stand in each other’s wind shadow, the turbulence they create accelerates wear on their neighbors. The…
Every morning, grid operators face the same problem: solar panels are already generating power, but no one knows exactly how much they’ll produce an hour from…
Perovskite solar cells carry one of the most frustrating contradictions in renewable energy: the same sunlight they’re built to harvest also causes them to fall apart.…
Perovskite solar cells have spent years promising to reshape clean energy — their efficiency rivals silicon, and the materials are far cheaper to produce. Yet scaling…
Charging a battery directly with sunlight — no solar panel anywhere in the circuit — is something scientists have been chasing for a long time. The…
For decades, every wind turbine built to international safety standards has been engineered to survive the same fearsome scenario: a sudden 15 meters-per-second surge in wind…
For years, the working assumption in wind energy has been simple: sites that get more rain wear out turbine blades faster. More rain, more damage. It…
In the spring of 2024, engineers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory did something deliberately counterintuitive: they took a commercial 1.5 MW wind turbine, pitched all…
Wind farm engineers have spent years learning to deliberately point turbines away from the wind — a technique called wake steering — to coax more total…
Hundreds of meters above the ground, a large kite slices through the wind, its tether pulling taut to drive a generator below. It looks controlled —…
Kesterite solar cells have long been one of photovoltaics’ most appealing promises — built entirely from Earth-abundant, non-toxic elements, and theoretically capable of competing with mainstream…
Floating offshore wind grew fast — from a single full-scale prototype in 2009 to 88 MW of installed capacity by 2023. Then it stalled. Rising costs…
Floating wind turbines don’t just spin — they sway, surge, and rock with the ocean beneath them. Engineers have long treated that motion as an aerodynamic…
For more than 70 years, fusion researchers have followed the same basic sequence: compress the plasma first, then heat it to the extreme temperatures needed to…
At highway speeds, a wind turbine blade’s leading edge doesn’t glide through rain — it collides with it. Hundreds of droplets strike the same narrow strip…
For 35 days straight, Tokyo woke up to rain. From the final days of August through the last week of September 2026, the sky over central…
Beneath Southern California, two of the country’s most consequential fault systems have been quietly loading for generations. The San Andreas and San Jacinto faults together absorb…
A blacktip shark glides through shallow, sunlit waters off Palm Beach County, Florida — unhurried, with nothing visible nearby to disturb it. Then a low-frequency pulse…
For decades, the Colorado River has been the invisible backbone of the American West — the source of water and electricity for more than 40 million…
