{"id":487111,"date":"2026-06-20T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:09:14","slug":"new-wind-turbine-can-be-built-anywhere-without-cement-heavy-machinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487111\/","title":{"rendered":"New wind turbine can be built anywhere without cement, heavy machinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French designer Fabien Brun is challenging the traditional view of wind energy as a massive, multi-million-euro industrial endeavor. His project, Wind to Watt, introduces a modular wind turbine concept that aims to fill the gap left by large-scale, fixed <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/irelands-600mw-storage-project\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grid infrastructures<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project operates on the philosophy that clean energy should be highly accessible rather than exclusively arriving through centralized, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/squid-system-approved-abs\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mega-scale installations<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWind To Watt develops a modular, low-tech and scalable wind solution, designed for mass production and global deployment without heavy infrastructure,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windtowatt.com\/index-en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a> the designer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-font-roboto t-font-normal t-text-[14px] md:t-text-[16px] t-leading-[18px] t-text-[#121216] dark:t-text-[#F5F6F7]\">An active and versatile journalist and news editor. He has covered regular and breaking news for several leading publications and news media, including The Hindu, Economic Times, Tomorrow Makers, and many more. Aman holds expertise in politics, travel, and tech news, especially in AI, advanced algorithms, and blockchain, with a strong curiosity about all things that fall under science and tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French designer Fabien Brun is challenging the traditional view of wind energy as a massive, multi-million-euro industrial endeavor.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-487111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}