{"id":72666,"date":"2017-09-15T04:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/3d-printed-wind-turbine-blades-could-bring-sci-fi-level-of-performance"},"modified":"2017-09-15T04:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:05:31","slug":"3d-printed-wind-turbine-blades-could-bring-sci-fi-level-of-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/3d-printed-wind-turbine-blades-could-bring-sci-fi-level-of-performance","title":{"rendered":"3D-Printed Wind Turbine Blades Could Bring \u2018Sci-Fi\u2019 Level of Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-wind-turbine-blades-could-bring-sci-fi-level-of-performance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ders.org\/articles\/20170901-3d-printing-poised-to-explode-in-wind-turbine-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(3Ders.org)<\/a> The rapid advance of 3D printing technology means that hybrid-material wind turbine blades complete with metal mesh inserts are no longer the stuff of imagination. These energy savers with \u201csci-fi-level\u201d performance could become reality in as soon as two years. Philip Totaro of Totaro &amp; Associates, \u201cThe greatest challenge for wind turbine blade structural and manufacturing engineers is to implement the idealized performance and noise mitigated designs of aerodynamics engineers,\u201d explains Totaro. \u201cLimitations of previous generations of manufacturing technology and the reliance on lower cost materials have limited the type of spar\/shear web structures which could be utilized.\u201d But 3D printing could be about to change all that, Totaro says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/inside3dprinting.com\/news\/3d-printed-wind-turbine-blades-bring-sci-fi-level-performance\/43784\/\">https:\/\/inside3dprinting.com\/news\/3d-printed-wind-turbine-bl...nce\/43784\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(3Ders.org) The rapid advance of 3D printing technology means that hybrid-material wind turbine blades complete with metal mesh inserts are no longer the stuff of imagination. These energy savers with \u201csci-fi-level\u201d performance could become reality in as soon as two years. Philip Totaro of Totaro &amp; Associates, \u201cThe greatest challenge for wind turbine blade structural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72666","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=72666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}