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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of a wind turbine, the image that likely pops into your mind is the classic three-bladed giant rising from farmland ...

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 ...

The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New research has found that the ...

Who would have thought that the sleek Atlas Vertical Wind Turbine Generator with its vertical build and a powerful 10 KW output can looks more like a sculpture from the future than a piece of ...

A debate over whether it is best to harness wind energy with horizontal-axis devices or vertical-axis devices has raged for thousands of years. Even how the technologies evolved is under some dispute.

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 ...