Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Engineers are finding new ways to make wind turbines more ...

Last week, we met Corwin Hardham, the CEO of Makani Windpower, which is at work on a revolutionary airborne wind turbine. This week, I want you to actually see how the turbine works. Below, you'll ...

Wind power has become one of the pillars of the global energy transition, yet the basic silhouette of the modern turbine, a tall tower with three sweeping blades, has barely changed in decades. Now a ...

We are finally learning how to farm the sky for energy. All this time, the fastest, most consistent winds on Earth have stayed just out of reach. They swirled thousands of feet above our heads while ...

In recent years, wind energy has become a bigger and bigger part of Texas’ power portfolio. And as it has become more common, so have questions about what happens to those big turbine blades that ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In a “game-changing” win against climate change, Purdue University research has discovered that wind turbines can not only provide the first clean-energy method to capture ...