Shawn Frayne’s Windbelt uses vibrating ribbons, not blades, to harvest wind efficiently on a smaller scale where traditional ...

Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends ...

If you think about turbines, you might think about large windmills on hills or offshore farms, right? However, it can also be ...

What is wind power density? The different types of generators used in wind-turbine systems. What architecture is most commonly used in high-power wind-energy-conversion systems (WECS)? Fundamental ...

The world's strongest winds race high in the sky, but that doesn't mean they're out of reach as a potentially potent energy source. Flying, swooping and floating turbines are being developed to turn ...

Virtually every week there are articles about new and innovative methods for harvesting wind energy. And every week more megawatts of capacity from three-blade horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) ...

If voters decide in November to keep the cap-and-invest program, the state has plans that could bring the technology to its ...