Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. Early forms of windmills used wind to crush grain or pump water. Now, modern wind turbines use the wind to create electricity. Learn how a wind turbine works.
Offshore Wind Resources Are Abundant: Offshore wind has the potential to deliver large amounts of clean, renewable energy to fulfill the electrical needs of cities along U.S. coastlines. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that the technical resource potential for U.S. offshore wind is more than 2,000 gigawatts of capacity, or 7,200 terawatt-hours per year of generation.
3 miles high in Tibet or covering the surface of a lake in North Carolina, solar power plants are springing up in more places around the world.
Porsche tricks out a gasmobile with sustainable carbon fiber bodywork today, and the benefits could ripple over to electric vehicles.
The killer combo of floating solar panels and seven more coal power plant retirements seems to have messed with the President’s mind.
Floating solar panels can piggyback on other infrastructure to provide for clean kilowatts with low impact, and perhaps some benefits, too.
Small wind turbines are the focus of a push to grow the distributed wind sector in the US, with help from the Energy Department.
The USAF is pumping dollars into a new solar cell that yields space-quality solar conversion efficiency at a down to Earth cost.
The red hot floating solar panel field gets a shot of adrenaline from the world’s largest military facility, Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Everybody is talking about the world’s largest solar tree because it fits right into the emerging solar-plus-agriculture movement.
