24 February 2006 – A Japanese company has begun selling a small scale wind turbine it claims is capable of generating power under conditions ranging from light breeze to gale-force winds. The Zephyr ...
The phrase wind power likely conjures images of massive spinning blades. But some companies now make micro wind turbines—tiny devices that can be installed in homes, businesses, and public parks. “We ...
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The future of renewable energy might be in the sky. Researchers in China have reportedly tested a new, gravity-defying wind turbine system that they say could generate power from the airspace above ...
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 ...
A Chinese company reported flying a massive airborne wind energy system to roughly 2,000 meters during a January 2026 test flight that local officials described as the world’s first “urban floating ...
BMW Group said it had installed the UK’s claimed first ‘motionless’ wind energy system at its Mini plant in Oxford. The system uses Aeromine Technologies technology to use wind power to produce ...
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 ...
For millennia, humans have harnessed the power of wind. Wind fueled the boats of the Egyptians, the irrigation of the Babylonians, and the grain-grinding windmills of the Persians. Today, modern wind ...
(AGL), winds are stronger and much, much more consistent than they are at surface. Even if the Earth were a perfect sphere, there’d be a sluggish boundry layer at ...
As Massachusetts races to meet its clean energy goals, will more wind turbines dot the ridge lines of the Berkshires? Ask Francis Pullaro that, and the president of RENEW Northeast starts to chuckle. ...