Can a 110-Metre Blade Be Built to Last 25 Years and Still Come Apart Cleanly? Recyclable wind blades have just taken a big step in scale. In late September, CRRC announced a 110-metre blade designed to be taken apart and recycled. The company says it recovers over 95% of the key raw materials. Meanwhile, the
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How Is a $1 Trillion Market Reshaping the Engineering Landscape? The global market for key energy technologies has crossed a threshold that would have seemed extraordinary just a decade ago. Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric vehicles, heat pumps and electrolysers together generated over $1.1 trillion in market value in 2025. Furthermore, this growth sustained
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How Has a Small US Company Just Achieved the Most Significant Nuclear Milestone in 40 Years? On 4th June 2026, something happened in a concrete bunker at Idaho National Laboratory that had not happened in the United States in over 40 years. A genuinely new type of nuclear reactor achieved criticality for the first time.
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How Has China Built the World’s First 16MW Floating Offshore Wind Turbine? On 28th June 2026, the world’s first 16-megawatt tension-leg platform floating offshore wind turbine departed its assembly site in Zhuhai, China. Its destination is the Lufeng oilfield cluster in the South China Sea. However, this is not a conventional offshore wind installation. The
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