“You could assemble [the blades] there at the wind plant, thereby allowing us to have much larger rotors that would still be compatible with our existing transportation constraints,” Felker said. “The bigger the rotor disc is, the more of the energy that’s in the wind can be captured. So, if you could develop a technology to allow you to have a reliable two-piece blade instead of a single piece as is currently done, then you could potentially double the rotor, and that would allow the turbine to capture four times as much energy.”