You might not need to know what the wind is like in Chicago right now (hint: windy), but watching the whole country’s gusts is arresting and beautiful. Most energy sources are visible to the naked eye ...

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have created Wind Map, an interactive map which traces the course and speed of wind in near real-time. Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have created Wind Map ...

We live in an age where the global pool of information is increasing exponentially. Scientific publications, remote sensing data, photographs, phone-calls, online videos, blogs -- all of these things ...

Last year, designers Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg brought us the “Wind Map,” an artistic visualization of wind patterns across the United States. Now their map has inspired another Web ...

Back in April, we posted about the real-time wind visualization web app put together by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg of Google’s “Big Picture” research group. Given the current weather the ...

Wind map, which was developed by Google computer scientists, shows wind currents in a stunning real time visualization. The wind map is updated hourly by the National Weather Service and shows the ...

The total value of the worldwide wind energy market will grow from $74.2 billion in 2012 to $109.8 billion in 2017, according to Navigant Research. The resulting installations will almost double the ...

As utility scale wind farms age, maintenance and contingency planning become increasingly important. Decisions about when and how to repair or replace major turbine components can critically influence ...

Digitized wind-farm design and modeling is a demanding task in terms of the size of the data sets involved and limited computer processing power capabilities. The outcome must be as realistic as ...

Recent advances have significantly enhanced our understanding of the complex fluid dynamics surrounding wind turbine blades. By employing non-invasive imaging techniques such as infrared thermography, ...