wind energy
Engineers Devise a Way to Harvest Wind Energy from Trees
It's not much power, but it may be enough to matter.
Wind Energy Is Actually Booming in the US. You Just Have to Look for It.
Nearly 80,000 people are employed in the US wind energy sector, which is providing enough energy to power 19 million households.
South Australia Is Killing Coal Power and This Town is Doomed
A renewable future won't need Leigh Creek, which is a town built on coal mining. We visited to see how the locals are facing the end.
Ontario Families Who Lost to Wind Turbine Companies in Court May Owe $340,000, Which Blows
Three companies are demanding almost $340,000 in total from the four families.
The Federal Government Just Sold Hundreds of Square Miles To Offshore Wind Developers
Located off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, the area could become the largest source of offshore wind power in the nation, supplying 1.4 million homes with electricity.
A 2,250-Foot Tall Tower in Arizona Will Usher in the Future of Wind Energy
Set to be completed in 2018, it would be the tallest freestanding structure in the US.
In 2013, Solar Capacity Hit Record Highs While Costing Less Than Ever Before
Investment is down, but the world still installed record overall solar power capacity last year.
Gaze Into This Real-Time Wind Map of the U.S. and Be Healed
"This exceedingly cool and unembeddable (almost) real-time map":http://hint.fm/wind/ of wind movements in the U.S. -- via the brains at hint.fm -- makes for one of the better visualization experiments in recent memory, and one of the conceptually...