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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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 ...

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 ...

A novel 7-ft.-diameter wind turbine has set a record by producing 5.3 kW in a 32.5-mph wind. The design, from Selsam Innovations, Fullerton, Calif. (selsam.com), puts several rotors on a single carbon ...

Imagine a windmill. It probably looks like this or this. And most alternatives have blades that turn when the wind blows against them. But in urban environments this model isn't ideal. Now there's a ...

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 ...