The Quest for the Monster Wind Turbine Blade

Companies are racing to develop ways to make the 100-meter blades needed to make offshore wind compete with fossil fuels. Blade Dynamics, a six-year-old company that’s partly owned by American Semiconductor, a wind turbine designer and supplier of wind farm electronics, says that it has developed technology that will make possible the world’s largest wind turbine blades. It’s demonstrated the […]

Plan Would Put a Bank in Every Browser

An open payments system built into Web standards could transform online life, if the proposal takes off. Over the past few decades, a handful of open standards for rendering and sharing text and imagery between computers—better known as the World Wide Web—have helped upend businesses worldwide. But these Web standards do not cover ways of transferring money or selling content, […]