ORNL researcher Vipin Kumar, an expert in lightning strike protection for airborne composites, inspects the wind turbine blade tip before he and his team remove it from a mold at DOE’s Carbon Fiber ...

The share of wind power in total electric power generation is expected to increase, and with that comes a requirement for this carbon-free source to be more reliable. The most important component of a ...

About 40 million lightning strikes hit the ground in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While lightning lasts for less than a second and is only about as ...