There’s something about windmills that drives inventors crazy: Straight-ish blades spinning in a circle around a horizontal axis seems so old-fashioned; surely we can devise something cooler? Like a helix around a vertical axis! Or a funky-looking energy ball! Or magnets around the rim!
One funky-looking design got a heads-up in the climate conference in Copenhagen, [...]

A couple people are out sick at work (darn you, swine flu!) so I haven’t looked at my email very closely, so I missed the announcement from UNH about $700,000 in stimulus funds to test a floating 10-kilowatt wind turbine. So let’s give credit where it’s due: Mass High Tech noticed it and posted it. [...]

The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript — a  weekly newspaper in Peterborough that fills the news-coverage void in the Monadnock region as daily papers pull back, and which also had the loudest table (by far) at the annual New Hampshire Press Association awards ceremony — has been following a typical and yet atypical fight over wind power in [...]