Wind turbine

These beautiful wind turbines from New World Wind look like trees. What an innovative and clever idea. It's not often we see technology that could change the world, though it is becoming more common as

Wind turbines – always a contentious topic, as the NIMBYs of the world vociferously protest their siting anywhere within a hundred miles of their lounge windows. Personally, your corresponden…

Turn a car alternator into alternative energy by building this cheap and easy homemade wind generator.

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WATERLOO, Iowa --- Of the 480 acres Tim Hemphill owns and 1,200 he farms near Milford, he sets aside three for two wind-turbine towers.

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These look pretty cool. And apparently they are getting popular in San Diego. They are small wind turbines combined with solar panels from DyoCore. The name of this product is SolAir.

Turn a car alternator into alternative energy by building this cheap and easy homemade wind generator.

How #WindPower Works : When you talk about modern wind #turbines, you're looking at two primary designs: horizontal-axis and vertical-axis. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are pretty rare. The only one currently in commercial production is the Darrieus turbine, which looks kind of like an egg beater.

Big wind farms have been blocked in Ohio by key lawmakers, but smaller turbines deployed as "distributive generation" producing power used on the spot by homes, farms and industry, are growing in number says the U.S. Department of Energy.