Several years ago [Michael Davis] built a charge controller for his wind turbine and published his construction plans online. This build became quite popular, especially among people that live in ...

Gigantic wind farms aren’t the only way to harness the breeze. Two brothers have created a simple device that anyone can use. Einar Agustsson and his brother Agust Agustsson come from a long line of ...

There's nothing I love more in green tech history than the tradition of homemade windmills that sprung up in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska during the last couple decades of the 19th century. We ...

That William Kamkwamba built a windmill from scratch might not be impressive, had he done so after a trip to Home Depot with the ol' AMEX card. That he did so in the Malawian outback, for $16 in cash, ...