Several mountains are taking the next step and making significant investments in their own, on-site renewable energy projects.
The wind energy industry has benefited from the support of billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens, who is planning to build the world's largest wind farm on about 200,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle.
A contract to build what is being called the nation's first offshore field of wind turbines was announced Monday by a Delaware utility and a firm that will build the generators off the Atlantic coast.
The wind power business, dominated by international conglomerates deploying mature technology, is a tough nut to crack.
The concept of harvesting the ocean as an energy source is nothing new, but in practice it's rarely utilized. That's beginning to change, though.
You know how we love wind turbines around here, but we love carnage even more -- so we can't get enough of this 200-foot tall Danish wind turbine shearing itself to bits after its brakes failed during a recent storm.
Marquiss Wind Power said on Friday that it has raised $1.3 million in series A funding to commercialize a rooftop wind turbine aimed at businesses. Velocity Venture Capital led the funding and was joined by Strategis Early Ventures.
Somebody asked me the other day what the life cycle impacts of a wind turbine are and how long it would take to pay back the energy used to manufacture one of those tall majestic beasts.
Dale Vince's company Ecotricity uses wind power to lessen the dependence on non-renewable energy sources of Britain's national electricity grid. Ecotricity shows how easy it can be to promote and make the shift from non-renewable to renewable energy.
WHEN Rena Wilson Jones and her husband, Drew, were building a house 10 years ago in a subdivision near the edge of Urbana, Ill., they knew the property was likely to be windy, bordered as it was by open fields to the north and west.
Britain is to launch a huge expansion of offshore wind-power with plans for thousands of turbines in the North Sea, Irish Sea and around the coast of Scotland.
In Washington recently, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne made an announcement that clears the way for a new and largely untapped renewable energy resource — the oceans.
Renewable energy produced from the wind has garnered much attention and support in recent years but is often criticized for its low output and lack of reliability. But now a super power wind turbine has come along that may be just what the renewable energy industry needs.
MALMO, Sweden — Steadying himself on the heaving foredeck of an inspection ship recently, his face flecked by spray, Arne Floderus pronounced it a good day for his new offshore wind farm.
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Have you heard any LOTRO news lately? No. Have you talked with anyone who has played LOTRO lately? No. Turbine will take care of that with a little Gollum in your MMORPG.
Jeff Anderson is not a nerd. The 40-year-old chief executive of Westwood (Mass.) video game developer Turbine is six feet tall, with the frame of an NFL linebacker. Nevertheless, he presides over a vast and rapidly growing virtual world of elves, orcs, dragons, and hobbits.
With its sleek, bladeless design and capacity to produce nearly 2000 kilowatt hours per year, the Windspire might just inspire some YIMBYism -- that's Yes, In My BackYard -- about wind power.
How to build your own wind generator in 5 steps. Pretty sweet!
Twice a day, in accordance with nature's clock, the Atlantic Ocean pours through the Bay of Fundy with a controlled fury that is unmatched anywhere in the world.
MIT's 4 mm turbine rotor After a decade of work, the first millimeter size turbine engine developed by researchers at MIT should become operational by the end of this summer.
My last experience with an MMORPG beta (Vanguard) was less enjoyable than I expected. The game wasn't very fun and did not seem ready for release. Now I'm playing in the Lord of the Rings Online beta.
Turbine just announced that they will be using the advanced A.I. software Kynapse, developed by Kynogon to power their NPC's for their upcoming and highly anticipated MMO, The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
Knight & Carver YachtCenter, Based in San Diego, plans to begin manufacturing a new type of turbine blade that is curved to take advantage of low-speed wind. The design also improves upon blade technology mechanically.
"Scientists at MIT are close to putting together the pieces of a miniature gas-turbine engine with hopes that it could replace today's battery technology and be used to power laptops and cell phones in the future."