After some painstaking work, he was able to turn a ceiling fan into a wind turbine (of sorts). While it’s true that some generators and motors can be used interchangeably by reversing the flow ...

If you need inspiration for building a generator, take a look at this build which attempted to adapt a ceiling fan motor into a wind turbine generator.

LIN SHANCHUAN/XINHUA The recent unveiling of a 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine in Fujian province marks a significant milestone for China's wind energy industry and reflects the country's ...

lives high up on the mountain side and can see the wind turbines from her house. "I woke at six in the morning and just heard a funny noise, like a motor," she said. The noise had kept her husband ...

By Stanley Reed Reporting from London Not long ago, two factories operated in Colorado by Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s leading turbine maker, were barely functioning. They had “next to no ...

By Stanley Reed Reporting from London GE Vernova, the maker of the wind turbine blade that shattered last summer and scattered debris on Nantucket’s beaches, said on Wednesday that it had found ...

The manufacturers of the damaged wind turbine that sent shards of debris to nearby Nantucket began a recovery effort Sunday to remove blade debris from the bottom of the ocean. The blade of the ...

A wind turbine has been destroyed by fire in Adair County, Iowa. Video shows smoke billowing from the turbine, and a giant blade crashing to the ground in flames. Emergency crews could only watch ...