We’ve all got a pretty good mental image of the traditional wind-powered generator: essentially a big propeller on a stick. Some might also be familiar with vertical wind turbines, which can ...

The world's first offshore wind farm was installed in 1991 off the coast of Vindeby on the Danish island of Lolland. It ...

The view from inside a 300-foot Los Vientos wind turbine (Josephine Lee ... A cylindrical or rectangular hub is mounted atop each 300-foot tower, housing a generator and an anemometer that ...

Unfortunately, the conventional three-bladed wind turbines you see dotting the plains can’t stand up to the awesome power of typhoons. But vertical ... the 80-meter tall towers of traditional ...