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Next-Gen Wind Turbines Use MRI Tech To Generate More Energy

When you're a sprawling company like GE, you can make bizarre connections between your products. This time, they've found that tech from medical imaging makes wind power more efficient.READ»

How Schools Of Fish Can Lead To More Efficient Wind Farms

More salmon, please! A new study shows how biomimicry can help generate energy.READ»

China’s Wind Power Woes

The country is investing heavily in renewable energy, but despite all its turbines, it's not getting the clean power it should be getting. How will that affect its ambitious renewable energy plans?READ»

T. Boone Pickens Ditches Wind Power

While there is still so much money in natural gas, those turbines will have to wait.READ»

Wind Farms Often Don't Produce as Much Energy as Advertised: Report

A new study from the John Muir Trust--not the sorts who would attack wind farms just for the fun of it--debunks five important industry claims.READ»

Coming Soon: A Massive Wind Farm to Power Kenya

The new project is the biggest on the continent and will increase the total amount of electricity produced in Kenya by 30%.READ»

U.S. Spending $50 Million to Hasten Offshore Wind Power

The National Offshore Wind Strategy is a five-year comprehensive plan to turn the U.S. into an offshore wind powerhouse.READ»

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Inside Vestas's Plan to Create More Energy-Conscious Consumers

Wind-turbine manufacturer Vestas is launching a WindMade trustmark to compel shoppers to consider the energy behind their consumer goods. But will people adjust their buying habits?READ»

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China's Aggressive Push Toward Clean Energy Paying Off

A new report out of the Worldwatch Institute details the country's ambitions and growth.READ»

South and Southeast Asia to Get Massive Infrastructure Investments

InfraCo Asia is setting its sights on the smaller but collectively powerful Asian nations to invest in hydro, wind, transportation, and other infrastructure projects.READ»

Saving the Grid From Ugly Overhead Wires

This week, American Semiconductor received its largest order yet--over 3 million meters of cables for superconductor cable manufacturer LS Cable of Korea.READ»

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Wind Power: Poverty Reducer

The Asian Development Bank has granted $630,000 to conduct initial feasibility assessments for three proposed wind farms on the Philippines island of Luzon.READ»

Are Wind Farms Further Dividing Socio-Economic Classes?

Fresh opposition to wind farms from the U.K.'s elite causes concern for the future of alternative energy and social disparities.READ»

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China Beats U.S. to First Offshore Wind Farm

China keeps inching further ahead of the U.S. in the clean energy development race.READ»

Wind Turbine Blades Could Cause Planes to Disappear From Radar

There are reasons to be wary of wind turbines--they're dangerous to transport, emit unpleasant noises, and have the nasty habit of killing birds and bats that come crashing into them. But we never thought that turbine projects could be considered a threat to the militaryREAD»

Iowa: The Wind Energy Capital of the United States

China may have overtaken the U.S. as the Saudi Arabia of wind power (got that?), but the U.S. is still home to some major wind energy powerhouses.READ»

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Alstom Makes Play to Capture Brazilian Wind Power Market With 90 MW Wind Farm

Alstom made it onto our list of 2010's Most Innovative Companies for its work in the transportation sector, but the company is also making strides in the renewable energy industry. Take the French company's $126 million contract ...READ»

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Corporate Activism: GE Sends Giant Wind Turbine Blade to Washington, D.C.

Climate activism isn't just for nonprofits and idealistic individuals. Sometime, major corporations get on board in a big way--literally, in the case of GE, which recently sent a 131-foot wind turbine blade to Washington, D.C.'s ...READ»

The Top 10 States for Wind Power

Good news on the wind energy front: new statistics from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) show that previous estimates of U.S. wind power resources actually underestimated the amount of energy available. The new ...READ»