Rural Americans and Africans have something in common: a shared love of the homestead-sized energy-generating wind turbine. While we grab them from the hardware store, however, these four brothers ...

As the Chinese proverb goes, “When the winds of change blow, some build walls, others build windmills.” In the case of several remote villages in Iran and Afghanistan, this could not be more true. For ...

Dusted head to toe in flour, Nigel Moon is a white apparition as he scuttles up and down wooden ladders, keeping his windmill whirring to feed a growing appetite for flour made the old way. The ...

The three dimensional system can be modified to accommodate all sorts of differing shapes and volumes required by users. Assembly is described to be as simple as putting together LEGOs, which makes ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The old Danish windmill, rebuilt piece by piece decades ago, is the pride of tiny Elk Horn. But residents on the western Iowa prairie are struggling to pay for repairs to get the ...

2003-06-10 04:00:00 PDT Petaluma-- Facing an annual energy bill of $3,200, Kris and Jim Foster decided to erect a small windmill on their breezy three-acre farm in west Petaluma. The Fosters' goal is ...