{"id":183078,"date":"2024-02-19T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-rotary-electric-contact-method-could-radically-change-the-way-wind-turbines-generate-electricity"},"modified":"2024-02-19T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:23:53","slug":"a-new-rotary-electric-contact-method-could-radically-change-the-way-wind-turbines-generate-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-rotary-electric-contact-method-could-radically-change-the-way-wind-turbines-generate-electricity","title":{"rendered":"A new rotary electric contact method could radically change the way wind turbines generate electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-rotary-electric-contact-method-could-radically-change-the-way-wind-turbines-generate-electricity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. The technology is called Twistact, and it will eliminate the need for expensive rare-earth magnets in large wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Sandia is now ready to partner with the energy industry to develop the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Sandia\u2019s Twistact is a novel approach to transmitting electrical current between a stationary and rotating frame, or between two rotating assemblies having different speeds or rotational directions. This method is ideal for use in wind turbines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. The technology is called Twistact, and it will eliminate the need for expensive rare-earth magnets in large wind turbines. Sandia is now ready to partner with the energy industry to develop the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines. Sandia\u2019s Twistact is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183078","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}