Printers
Wind turbines are rapidly changing the economics of renewable energy production, with offshore wind capacity expected to triple by 2025 and increase 15-fold by 2040, according to the IEA. But we also need to make the production of the turbines more sustainable. One way is to 3D print the component parts close to where they will be used. A new partnership between GE, Fraunhofer Institutes and Voxeljet AG will develop the world’s largest 3D printer – a sand binder jet printer called the Advance Casting Cell – for offshore wind applications, like GE’s Haliade-X, standing 248 metres high with 107-metre blades.
— Wayne Visser
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