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In China, a multi-institute research and development project has created a series of large-scale floating turbine prototypes. The helium-filled aerostats, which send electricity to the ground via a ...

Last week, we met Corwin Hardham, the CEO of Makani Windpower, which is at work on a revolutionary airborne wind turbine. This week, I want you to actually see how the turbine works. Below, you'll ...

Discover how to build a mini vertical axis wind turbine using simple materials such as a wooden stick, metallic sheet, PVC pipe, and an aluminum frame. This step-by-step guide demonstrates the ...

We are finally learning how to farm the sky for energy. All this time, the fastest, most consistent winds on Earth have stayed just out of reach. They swirled thousands of feet above our heads while ...

As data-center developers frantically seek to secure power for their operations, one startup is proposing a novel solution: ...

In recent years, wind energy has become a bigger and bigger part of Texas’ power portfolio. And as it has become more common, so have questions about what happens to those big turbine blades that ...

On a recent winter day on a wind farm in Germany, workers scaled 544-foot-tall wind turbines and started adding fringe-like attachments to the massive blades. The design, inspired by the shape of owl ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In a “game-changing” win against climate change, Purdue University research has discovered that wind turbines can not only provide the first clean-energy method to capture ...