Wind

It’s Full Speed Ahead For Wind-Powered Cargo Ships

by Greg Makrigiorgos

Wind-powered shipping and cargo transportation may sound like something that died out in the early 1800s when fossil fuels became popular. But the sails have turned, and wind power is making a comeback.  Recently Lloyd’s Register, the world’s first marine classification society and a leader in the maritime

The Challenges of a Wind Turbine on Your Home

We’ve seen wind turbines popping up everywhere in the last few years, though these are mostly grid scale installations. For at-home power generation solar power has been a disruptive technology, but what if we could scale down wind turbines and install them on our roofs? What would happen if

The truth about wind turbines - how bad are they?

The truth about wind turbines and how they are one of the most cost-effective, fastest growing and arguably underused sources of energy currently available to us. But when a wind turbine is not in operation -- meaning, getting them built and working out what to do to recycle them once they're taken