Wind turbines keep getting bigger: Each blade can be longer than a football field, and one offshore turbine recently installed in China is as tall as a 50-story building. Making the base to hold up a ...

There are many factors that can determine how well a wind turbine can generate power, and one of those is its rated wind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a cavernous testing facility on England’s windswept northeast coast, engineers are thrashing a 50-ton, multimillion-dollar wind ...

Picture a structure taller than the Eiffel Tower, floating freely in open ocean 43 miles from the nearest coastline. No seabed anchor holds it upright in the way you’d expect. It rides the swell, ...

For millennia, humans have harnessed the power of wind. Wind fueled the boats of the Egyptians, the irrigation of the Babylonians, and the grain-grinding windmills of the Persians. Today, modern wind ...