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New York's Urban Green Energy has installed the world's first fully integrated wind-powered electric vehicle charging station in Barcelona.
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The Holonic Streetlamp harnesses both sunlight and wind to provide light when the Sun goes down.
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Green Energy innovator Ecotricity has unveiled plans to install a national network of electric vehicle charging points powered by renewable energy, one of which is the first in the world to get its power directly from a wind turbine.
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A television host and an engineer from Germany have completed an almost 5,000 km (3,107 mile) journey across Australia in their Wind Explorer, a lightweight electric vehicle powered by the wind.
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Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven has constructed a prototype wind-powered iPhone charger called the iFan from a custom rubber case and computer fan
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Zeppy 3 will shortly sail across a stretch of Mediterranean waters using only the power of the wind and a curved carbon foil based on the chien de mer by Didier Costes
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With a wind speed of just 30 mph (48 km/h) British engineer Richard Jenkins has set a new land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle at a blistering 126.1 mph.
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A 49-storey solar-and-wind-powered tower, designed by Austrian architecture firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, is to be built in Shenzhen in southern China.
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September 7, 2008 Over 2000 years ago, the Frisians who first settled the Netherlands began to build the first dykes to hold back the water in the Netherlands. Having battled adversity from the elements
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Each floor of Dynamic Architecture's twisting tower is able to rotate independently - and its method of construction is just as 'revolutionary' (sorry!). But it's the wind turbines between floors, which will power the entire building plus generate a huge energy surplus, that make this building such
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July 5, 2007 The problem of keeping your mobile phone fully charged when miles away from a conventional electricity source is being tackled by UK wind turbine s