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 ...

Miniature models of cars and trains are actually moving, but internal mechanisms are often different from real ones. Wooden miniature model "UGEARS"Has almost the same structure as the real thing, it ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A historic windmill that survived the 2013 flood only to be destroyed by brutal winds will rise ...

What do windmills and Mazdas have in common? More than you'd think. In an effort to boost fuel economy, the Japanese automaker is looking to pilfer the windmill parts bin for the resilient capacitors ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — When Kees Verheul decided at age 62 to leave the comfort of retirement and return to the business world, he chose an unlikely venture: a windmill manufacturing plant. Before he ...