Jeffrey S. of Layton, UT is the creator of the Wind Shifting Windmill, a two-part windmill designed to increase wind speed with stationary blades by shifting wind from one side of the vertical ...

Lower costs, cheaper wind turbines and hurricane safe. That’s the future of offshore wind energy promised by SeaTwirl, a company that makes vertical wind turbines. These new turbines have capabilities ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. The Obama administration vowed early on to make the research ...

When you think of a wind turbine, the image that likely pops into your ...

Wind power is taking the front stage with a ground-breaking new design as the renewable energy landscape undergoes a rapid upheaval. With their remarkable blend of sustainability, efficiency, and ...

Wind power has always been a trade off between clean energy and the visual, acoustic, and ecological cost of giant spinning blades. A new generation of radical designs promises something different, ...

These scale model wind turbines use fixed-pitch blades to evaluate a new vertical axis wind turbine design. Vertical axis wind turbines are easier to install than traditional horizontal axis wind ...

Research carried out by Oxford Brookes University has found that vertical turbine designs could make large wind farms more effective. In the study, the researchers compared traditional wind turbines ...

The long dormant promise of floating vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) designs in offshore power production – on the drawing board, able to capture more energy from the resource than the ...

Three-blade wind turbines are a common sight on the horizon and out at sea. These machines can range in size but tend to tower above surrounding buildings and hills. The tallest of these giants can ...