It's only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight. In 2023 ...

Wind energy is taking off all over again. This time, literally. In China, a multi-institute research and development project has created a series of large-scale floating turbine prototypes. The helium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "Wikinger" wind farm in the Baltic Sea off the island of Ruegen. Bernd Wüstneck/ZB/dpa Wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas ...

Vattenfall begins building its first wind and solar hybrid park in Germany, combining four wind turbines with 12,000 solar ...

What is wind power density? The different types of generators used in wind-turbine systems. What architecture is most commonly used in high-power wind-energy-conversion systems (WECS)? Fundamental ...

University of Glasgow researchers are working to unlock the potential of bladeless wind power. For the first time, computer simulations of bladeless wind turbines (BWTs) have pinpointed the most ...

The Octopus Energy founder has claimed that Britain’s 2,500-plus wind farms are paid billions to stop producing energy in what he describes as a "racket". Greg Jackson said that the National Energy ...

Solar panels and wind turbines give the world bountiful energy — but come with a conundrum. When it’s sunny and windy out, in many places these renewables produce more electricity than is actually ...

Wind energy infrastructure doesn’t produce power if the air isn’t moving, and solar doesn’t generate power if the sun’s not out. But that doesn’t mean that either source of energy is "worthless" ...

The Sustainably Co-locating Agricultural and Photovoltaic Electricity Systems (SCAPES) project, led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...