With the California blackouts of 2001 still a painful memory, Chris Beaudoin wants to generate some of his own electricity. He marveled the other day at how close he is to that goal, gazing at two new ...

Wind power just became a lot more accessible. Canadian company Aurea has developed a portable wind turbine that fits in your backpack. Called Shine, it weighs just three pounds, it’s about the size of ...

Are consumers and businesses ready for small turbines or 'building-integrated' wind generators? Companies such as AeroVironment are hoping so. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Until recently, the only viable option for harvesting wind for power was to erect one of those colossal propellers commonly found on rural wind farms. Several building owners have successfully ...

Wind power has always been a trade off between clean energy and the visual, acoustic, and ecological cost of giant spinning ...

FREEN, an innovator in wind energy, introduces a line of small wind turbines that utilize efficient and environmentally friendly Darrieus rotor technology. FREEN's wind generators are fundamentally ...

Solar chargers and power banks alone just don’t cut it anymore, with our existence relying on so many energy-guzzling gadgets. We need all the power we can get to constantly feed these insatiable ...

Belgian startup Philéole has developed Grain Blanc, a compact vertical-axis wind turbine designed to generate electricity ...

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