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Altaeros' Buoyant Air Turbine: Last year, Altaeros tested a prototype of the turbine at a height of 500 feet in Maine, where it flew ...

Sheerwind has designed an alternative to bladed wind systems that uses a series of funnels and tubes. Its Invelox turbine, pictured, dire...

Ireland To Build 'Giant' Wind Turbines To Power UK Homes -- BBC  UK and Irish ministers will today sign an agreement that coul...

What lies ahead: A mock-up of the Navitus Bay wind farm, which would cover an area the size of Glasgow World's Biggest Wind Farm 'To...

Broken promises: The rusting wind turbines of Hawaii Broken Down And Rusting, Is This The Future Of Britain's 'Wind Rush'? -- Da...

Threat: Academic experts in Pennsylvania say half of the turbines at four proposed offshore wind farms in the U.S. are likely to be destroye...

The Dark Side Of Solar And Wind Power Projects -- L.A. Times Building and maintaining solar and wind power projects can be hazardous, and in...

The massive propellers, weighing a tonne each, are 24 metres in diameter and can get up to speeds of 230 rotations a minute Rare Glimpse Int...

Photo from Mettaefficient Wind Power's Dirty Little Secrets -- The Daily Bayonet A California court tells the naked and ugly truth about...

One of the solutions would be changing the rotor design From The BBC: Wind farms, especially big ones, generate turbulence that can signific...

Full of hot air: The EU has targeted 10,000 new wind farms, but a study has revealed that it costs nearly twice as much to produce wind powe...

An aerial view of the offshore energy park Alpha Ventus in the North Sea, about 45 kilometres (27 miles) north of the island of Borkum, Apri...

Image : Generating capacity at Whitelee will increase by more than two thirds From The BBC: A massive expansion is to take place at Europe...

A military plane takes off at Dyess Air Force base near Abilene, Texas. (Credit: Abigail Vander Hamm/AWEA) Tech Fixes To Wind Turbine-Radar ...

Photo: Power ring: This three-megawatt wind turbine uses permanent magnets and a design that makes it significantly lighter than a conventi...

From CNET: Wind-generated electricity is growing rapidly in the United States but the pace still lags far behind that in China, the organize...

From Wired Science: The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of ...

From Wired Science: The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of ...

The wind farm at Scroby Sands off East Anglia is shrouded in sea fog caused by its spinning blades From The Daily Mail: An offshore wind far...

From CNET: WASHINGTON--The most well-known obstacles to installing wind turbines are complaints over their visual impact and the potential f...