{"id":174723,"date":"2023-10-25T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-cost-effective-turbine-blade-can-make-tidal-energy-more-affordable"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:40:52","slug":"new-cost-effective-turbine-blade-can-make-tidal-energy-more-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-cost-effective-turbine-blade-can-make-tidal-energy-more-affordable","title":{"rendered":"New cost-effective turbine blade can make tidal energy more affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cost-effective-turbine-blade-can-make-tidal-energy-more-affordable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new \u201cstructure reduces the amount of materials necessary \u2013 bringing down the weight, volume, and, crucially, the cost of manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In what can provide a major boost to renewable energy generation initiatives, a cutting-edge tidal turbine blade has been indigenously developed in Scotland at a more affordable price.<\/p>\n<p>The turbine was manufactured by a team of design engineers from the University of Edinburgh and is slated to help reduce the levelized cost of tidal energy. The new \u201cstructure reduces the amount of materials necessary \u2013 bringing down the weight, volume and, crucially, the cost of manufacturing the blade,\u201d said the team in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new \u201cstructure reduces the amount of materials necessary \u2013 bringing down the weight, volume, and, crucially, the cost of manufacturing.\u201d In what can provide a major boost to renewable energy generation initiatives, a cutting-edge tidal turbine blade has been indigenously developed in Scotland at a more affordable price. The turbine was manufactured by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}