For many environmental enthusiasts, horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) — the kind that look like windmills slowly spinning in the distance — are a pretty familiar sight. Unfortunately, there are ...

The generator resistance can be managed by the microsecond to control the speed of the turbine. Thus, whichever way the wind's blowing, the floating double VAWT passively tilts to an optimal angle, ...

SeaTwirl describes its design as simple and robust. It's a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT), a spinning cylinder as opposed to the windmill-like horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) conventionally ...

World Wide Wind, a Norway-based company, is now developing a new type of floating Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), as reported by Interesting Engineering. Engineers believe that the VAWT can make a ...

South Australia’s Flinders University is set to trial a next-generation vertical wind turbine south of Adelaide in a research collaboration with local start-up VAWT-X Energy. Backed by private equity ...

Harnessing wind power for use in residential applications has been a challenge, but a new breed of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) from Helix Wind offers a promising design that may change the way ...

New vertical axis wind turbines that could be a game-changer for distributed generation powering farms, factories and apartment blocks are being taken for a trial spin by a team in Australia. Flinders ...