China’s push for greener manufacturing is encouraging factories to generate more of their own clean electricity. Within industrial parks, small wind turbines are increasingly deployed alongside ...

The turbines are small enough to be installed in home settings, and can reach a maximum height of 10 m (32.8 ft) to grab wind currents. The team also says the turbines could find use by disaster ...

Until recently, the only viable option for harvesting wind for power was to erect one of those colossal propellers commonly found on rural wind farms. Several building owners have successfully ...

German manufacturer SkyWind has just become the first company to receive full certification for its compact wind turbine, the NG. The small but mighty wind spinners are easy to install atop home ...

German researchers have paved the way for decentralized renewable energy by developing a lightweight, small wind turbine capable of generating electricity even in the gentlest breeze. The system, ...

In this video, we explore the innovative solutions provided by omni-directional wind turbines for urban energy generation. Small wind turbines (SWTs) encounter challenges such as low efficiency, high ...

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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.

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 ...