Wind Power Innovations

Windlift's drone will autonomously fly in endless figure-eights, generating 30 kWh of power

Energy

Flying in figure-eights to generate electricity off-grid

It's only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight.

Energy

Motionless turbines deliver super-efficient wind energy to BMW's factory

Aeromine has installed a silent and motionless wind energy harnessing system on the roof of BMW's MINI manufacturing plant in Oxford, UK. They're meant to complement the factory's solar panels to produce clean energy, while taking up a lot less space.

Heath Evdemon has designed a new kind of wind turbine based on reciprocating motion that's currently being scaled up into a full-size prototype with the help of the Future Factory project

Environment

Versatile Wind Harvester breaks from traditional turbine design

Heath Evdemon has designed a new kind of wind turbine based on reciprocating motion that's currently being scaled up into a full-size prototype with the help of the Future Factory project.