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Labeled diagram of a wind turbine showing its main components, including blades attached to a rotor, nacelle housing gears and generator, controller, yaw drive and motor, power cable, and tower, with an anemometer on top.

Rows of white wind turbines with spinning blades stand on a dry, grassy landscape at a wind farm near Tehachapi, California.

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Panoramic view of offshore wind turbines in the Solway Firth, seen from green fields on the Scottish coast, with the hills of the Lake District in the background.

Three wind turbines stand on a grassy hill above farmland with scattered hay bales, illustrating sustainable agriculture and renewable energy use.

Take a historical and architectural tour inside the Wright brothers' wind tunnel on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - Wind turbines: current status, obstacles, trends and technologies.	Grace Young	Oct 17, 2026
	Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - Larger wind turbines as a solution to reduce environmental impacts.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 10, 2026
	Add new Web site: CORE - Optimal Design for a Composite Wind Turbine Blade with Fatigue and Failure Constraints (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Jan 23, 2026
	Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - Wind turbines: current status, obstacles, trends and technologies.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 13, 2025
	Add new Web site: International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research - Study on Wind Turbine and its Aerodynamic Performace (PDF).	Yamini Chauhan	May 07, 2025
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Public Health - Wind Turbines and Human Health.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 14, 2024
	Add new Web site: Engineering LibreTexts - The Physics of a Wind Turbine.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 26, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Physics of Wind Turbine.	Emily Rodriguez	Jan 20, 2023
	Add new Web site: Energy.gov - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - How Do Wind Turbines Work?	Grace Young	Nov 15, 2015
	The text "power generated (kilowatts per unit of time)" changed to "power generated (kilowatts)."	John P. Rafferty Luc Bonte	Nov 13, 2014
	Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Wind Turbines.	Surabhi Sinha	Sep 10, 2014
	New article added.	John P. Rafferty Christopher A. Badurek	Nov 11, 2013