24 February 2006 – A Japanese company has begun selling a small scale wind turbine it claims is capable of generating power under conditions ranging from light breeze to gale-force winds. The Zephyr ...

Scientists have created a miniature 'wind turbine' that 'scavenges' energy from a breeze created during a brisk walk. The 'nano-generator', which is made of two plastic strips in a tube, captures and ...

BMW Group said it had installed the UK’s claimed first 'motionless' wind energy system at its Mini plant in Oxford. The system uses Aeromine Technologies technology to use wind power to produce ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. One of the prevailing issues in climate change is that the locus of innovation – by locus I mean “money” – is in the global north, ...

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will provide $341,990 in grant funding to support the development of mini wind turbines designed to power off-grid telecommunications towers and remote ...

Farmers could soon be planting rows of mini-wind turbines in hedgerows as part of an innovative project to harness the countryside's wind energy while avoiding the usual objections over 'unsightliness ...

A French start up called New Wind, has made a design for silent wind trees that have been installed at the United Nation's Conference on Climate Change (referred to as COP21). The trees, outside of ...

General Motors is counting on four core strategies to meet rising fuel-economy standards: weight reduction, advanced powertrain technologies, more efficient integration of vehicle components and ...

US startup Aeromine has installed the UK’s first “motionless” wind turbine atop BMW’s Mini factory in Oxford. The 3-metre-tall, box-shaped device captures wind flowing up and over the building.

Fluid filled with lively, churning bacteria could one day become a small-scale power source. New computer simulations indicate that a miniature wind farm‒like device could harvest the energy of ...