... happens to moondust under the onslaught of solar wind? Researchers in a NASA-supported lab are finding ...
Researchers have compiled years of data from NASA's QuikScat satellite to create three new atlases of ocean wind patterns around the globe.
... on the Sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which can disrupt power grids, satellites and communications ...
... to havoc and damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech ... an inexpensive vent that can reduce roof uplift on buildings during high winds, even a hurricane ...
An Australia company is testing what could be the undersea equivalent of a wind farm. Their devices would capture wave energy and convert it to electricity.
As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition.
... as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report that lays out a possible plan for wind energy growth ...
Western Australia has Australia's best offshore windfarm site, according to research, though while Australia has spare land offshore wind probably won't be used.
Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro will build the world's first deepwater floating wind turbine next year off Norway's coast, it said on Thursday.
Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base may soon share a wind farm that will provide as much as one-third of the electricity used by the two entities.
... solar wind -- a stream of electrically-charged particles and magnetic fields that blows outward from the sun ...
When you think of wind power, you probably picture gigantic wind turbines spinning gracefully in the middle of large open areas.
... Lange is thrilled that an instrument he invented, a wind sensor called the Telltale, has successfully landed ... helping to create the Telltale, which is able to measure winds in the polar region of Mars. Mars is typically ...
... year the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world, according to a report released ... , and more than 200 GW (gigawatts, or billion watts) of wind power are in various stages of development throughout ...
If the future is to have scores of microgenerators hooked up to the national grid, power companies should pay us to erect wind turbines on our land
