Vortex Bladeless, a startup based in Ávila, northwest of Madrid, has designed an upright cylindrical wind energy harvester that works by oscillating rather than using a rotating blade.

If you answered "a wooden wind turbine", you could be a visionary ... the diameter of the cylindrical steel towers to support them has had to grow too. In a world of road tunnels, bridges and ...

The beauty of his design is that the 20-meter-tall windmill rotates each cylindrical part with electricity. Then the entire turbine rotates when wind gathers strength. “Wind farms have not taken ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a sensor inspired by the whiskers of seals for the safety of ...