@Freeflying, some topics like A "crackpot" design or A "Professor Crackpot" 3-D-printing wind "project"... could be more suitable. You can have fun with counter-rotating propellers or bladeless or both, DAWT and similar, Maglev wind turbines, Savonius-like and everything you want.
Also consider that certainly AWE is struggling, but the teams are doing serious scientific and technical work, even if the results are pending.
Consider also the basics of wind turbine, and in particular Betz’s law. True innovations are far from fancy “technologies” to wow newbies.