For many of us our landscapes are dotted with wind turbines, the vast majority of which are horizontally aligned as if they were giant aircraft propellers. A much rarer sight is the vertical wind ...

As well as generating renewable energy, wind turbines might soon remove air pollution too. Zhong Lin Wang at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues have developed a ...

Even a single wind turbine can produce significant amounts of energy, given the right conditions. Wind power in the form of windmills has been around for a long time. Relatively short towers once ...