horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) — the kind that look like windmills slowly spinning in the distance — are a pretty familiar sight. Unfortunately, there are quite a few caveats that make ...

Modern-day wind turbines are constructed using mostly concrete ... towers can be almost fully recycled and reused, whether to make new wind turbine towers or something else. Melting steel can ...

But now, researchers at Washington State University have developed a new, environmentally friendly method to recycle wind ...

Fran Scott explores how PhD student Jon Sumanik-Leary from the University of Sheffield is developing a DIY wind turbine for isolated Third World communities. Conventional wind turbines (and other ...