When we finished the blade, we compared our product to group Tues-10, who were to make a more cost-efficient wind turbine blade for a village of low income. Of course, since one of their key objectives was to reduce cost much like it was in our case, they looked at the problem in a very similar lens. However, unlike our team, they also concluded that minimizing production energy was also key in making sure that the material that they were using was abundant and at-the-ready - especially in a village with a decline in resources.

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It was interesting to note that even though our scenarios were different, and even though they had slightly different objectives than we did, they still concluded to make their blade out of the same material that we had decided on, that being the low alloy steel. However this may have been due to both teams wanting cost-efficient blades.

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Additional resources used in the research of this topic, as well as further information on the journey of our turbine blade project, can be found in the final design summary at the top of this page.