Rural Americans and Africans have something in common: a shared love of the homestead-sized energy-generating wind turbine. While we grab them from the hardware store, however, these four brothers ...

As the Chinese proverb goes, “When the winds of change blow, some build walls, others build windmills.” In the case of several remote villages in Iran and Afghanistan, this could not be more true. For ...

Dusted head to toe in flour, Nigel Moon is a white apparition as he scuttles up and down wooden ladders, keeping his windmill whirring to feed a growing appetite for flour made the old way. The ...

2003-06-10 04:00:00 PDT Petaluma-- Facing an annual energy bill of $3,200, Kris and Jim Foster decided to erect a small windmill on their breezy three-acre farm in west Petaluma. The Fosters' goal is ...

While commercial wind turbines have been trending toward larger sizes, from 300 kW capacity in 1990 to 7.5 MW in 2011, sometimes it is worth bucking the trend. Professor J.C. Chiao and his postdoc Dr.

The Linn County Supervisors approved the first reading of an ordinance to give windmills that produce electricity a property tax discount. A public hearing is set for Nov. 4. The ordinance would make ...