Home wind turbines are being pitched as the next solar panels, but the science of what happens when one goes up reveals a ...

The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks ...

Swedish startup Modvion is building the world’s tallest wooden wind turbine tower for an energy company in Sweden. The 105-meter (344-feet) wind turbine tower (including the blades) will be Modvion’s ...

A Spanish startup's vibrating pole generates electricity with no blades, no noise, and no bird strikes — and it could sit ...

Pincher Creek, among the windiest corners in Canada and home to many wind farms, should be an enviable clean energy success ...

Modern-day wind turbines are constructed using mostly concrete and steel, topped by the fiberglass composite blades mounted to the nacelle that houses the gearbox and generator, along with much of the ...

You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

Modvion is currently only making turbine towers from wood, but conventional blades also pose an environmental problem. They are manufactured from fiberglass bound together with epoxy resin, an ...

Maybe you’ve heard of a solar updraft tower, a tall, hollow cylindrical tower where sunlight heats the air at the base of the tower and creates a chimney effect, causing air to rapidly shoot upward ...

AMES, Iowa – Sri Sritharan called up a digital map of the United States and pointed to a dark blue band running through the middle of the country. That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the ...

It would generate enough electricity to power thousands of homes, but be visible for miles around ...

Strong storms ripped through portions of central and eastern South Dakota early Monday morning, leaving roofs torn off homes, ...