CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Everyone has seen a windmill, those ubiquitous renewable energy turbines that are popping up in back yards across southern New Jersey. But physics teacher Joe Schmidt challenged ...

CHICO — In windy areas of California, motorists can drive past wind farms where towering structures with propeller-type blades capture the wind to generate electricity. But in poor and remote areas of ...

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Marketing for the 50MW leviathan has already begun, with production slated for next year according to company boss Zhang ...

Windmills have assumed the same basic form for centuries: long vertical axles crowned with rectangle-shaped blades. Now, a start-up is preparing to exceed 10 megawatts (MW) this summer by utilizing ...

Sometimes the simplest improvements to a system are the least obvious. That seems to be the design philosophy of Leviathan Energy, a startup that might be ready to commercialize an important ...

When you think of a wind turbine, the image that likely pops into your mind is the classic three-bladed giant rising from farmland or the sea. But over the years, designers and engineers have come up ...

The type of wind turbine you’re used to seeing in stock photos of wind farms is called a horizontal axis wind turbine (or, HAWT). But there is another form of wind power, called a vertical axis wind ...

QUESTION Have any alternative windmill designs been trialled? There are several alternative windmill designs beyond the traditional horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) that most people are familiar ...