From community solar farms to co-owned wind turbines, eco-inventors are coming up with new ways to bring renewable power into our homes. Now, micro wind turbines designed to look like trees are ...

A handful of start-ups are making mini turbines that go on top of city buildings and turn wind power into electricity. Photos: Harnessing wind Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Oil companies in the US have been retrenching as the market goes into free-fall, but when the dust settles and prices begin their inevitable upward climb the survivors will face some stiff — and ...

Conventional wind turbine technology has been a bit out of reach for most residential consumers living in urban areas—until now. Researchers at Hong Kong Universityand Lucien Gambarotaof Motorwave Ltd ...

SANTA CLARA — Intel is turning the roof of its Santa Clara headquarters into a mini-wind farm with what it says is one of the largest micro-turbine arrays in the country. The V-shaped formation of 58 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Students at Ocean View Elementary School in Norfolk welcomed a new learning tool to their school campus Thursday morning. “This design has been nicknamed Susie 4," said Carol Ann Curran ...

Forget hand-cranked chargers and solar-powered cases, the latest way to solve the ever-present problem of a dying phone battery is by using thin air. Researchers from Texas have developed a miniscule ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have designed a miniscule wind turbines with a micro-generator that can be used to recharge mobile devices. Smitha Rao, a university research ...

A handful of start-ups are floating an idea that could change the face of the wind power industry. Rather than build farms of towering wind turbines in rural areas, some companies are designing "micro ...

SANTA CLARA — Intel is turning the roof of its Santa Clara headquarters into a mini-wind farm with what it says is one of the largest micro-turbine arrays in the country. The V-shaped formation of 58 ...