He acknowledges that there is very little demand for new windmills. He last installed a new one two years ago. Only one company, the Aermotor Co. of Chicago, still builds them. What has happened ...

Scottish professor James Blyth built the first windmill to make electricity in 1887, powering his holiday home in Marykirk. His second powered the Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary and Dispensary in ...

while minimizing their environmental footprint. Here’s why floating windmills may be the most promising iteration yet. Offshore wind is becoming an increasingly important part of the world’s ...

The remains of five medieval windmills and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery have been unearthed during an excavation. The finds were made at a site between Cherry Hinton and Teversham, Cambridgeshire ...

Ancient mariners used sails to capture the wind. Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the ...

The larger rotor diameter of the “mega-windmills,” approximately twice the size of the 5 megawatt structures, means that less have to be built in a given area to produce an equivalent amount ...

If the wind energy is used directly as a mechanical force, like milling grain or pumping water, it's called a windmill; if it converts wind energy to electricity, it's known as a wind turbine.

Global intrigue with Jaclyn Smith as an ambassador marked for assassination. Robert Wagner. Dr. Desforges: Christopher Cazenove. President Ionescu: Franco Nero. Nezusa: Susan Tyrrell. Rogers: Jeff ...