Think of a wind turbine and you’ll probably picture a tall vertical pole with three long blades spinning at the top. These traditional turbines were modeled after 17th-century Dutch windmills, but for ...

Floating wind power could be cost-competitive with conventional bottom-fixed offshore plants as early as next year, a new outfit working with Norwegian contracting giant Aibel has claimed as it pulled ...

With people now opting for eco-sensitive designs, terms like ‘passive’ cooling and ‘natural’ cooling — common terminology used in the traditional architectural and building industry — are now ...

US carmaker General Motors’ venture capital arm has led an investment round of up to $10m that will help fund development and commercialisation of Wind Catcher, an innovative 100-plus turbine floating ...

In a long-awaited, historic step toward “real" not cookbook wind engineering, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently issued a recommended alternative ...

Norwegian outfit Wind Catching Systems calculates innovative technology would transform economics and cut offshore wind farm acreage use by 80% Floating wind power could be cost-competitive with ...