How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials — steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and ...

Wind energy is a type of renewable energy obtained from the wind, or in other words from the movement of air masses transferring from areas of high atmospheric pressure to nearby areas of lower atmospheric pressure, with speeds proportional to the pressure ...

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There's a lot riding on the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry: the ability to tap into a huge source of clean energy and reduce carbon emissions, the opportunity to create thousands of jobs, the unique chance to jumpstart a new domestic manufacturing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A federal judge ruled Trump’s wind energy permit ban was “arbitrary and capricious,” striking down a Day One executive order in a major industry victory. The ban ...

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Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems is developing a floating, multi-turbine technology for wind farms that could generate five times the annual energy of the world’s largest, single wind turbine. This increased efficiency is due to an innovative ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anti-offshore wind sentiment is based on many factors. High on the list of grievances, however, is the ...

A pity that Trump, or one of the 18 intelligence agencies reporting to him, did not trace the image back to its source Even while on holiday at his Florida resort, Donald Trump has refused to take a break from his unrelenting war on wind energy. Late ...

Home wind turbines are a smaller version of the large turbines you see on the side of the highway generating clean electrical energy from the wind’s kinetic energy. While commercial wind farms use machines whose blades can create a diameter of 130 feet ...

Offshore wind developer Revolution Wind escalates its legal challenge against a U.S. lease suspension as construction nears completion.