In the late 1980s, the Altamont Pass in California became the “Ground Zero” of a PR nightmare for renewable energy. Thousands ...

Wind turbines kill birds. That much is true. But the claim that wind farms operate as mass bird-killing machines collapses under the weight of peer-reviewed evidence. Multiple federal studies and ...

A new approach to a 100-year-old math problem is reshaping how engineers understand wind turbines. Penn State engineering student Divya Tyagi developed a cleaner and more complete solution to a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — The maker of a ...

A Penn State student refined a century-old math problem, originally published in 1935, that determines the optimal aerodynamic performance of a wind turbine. The student's work improves upon the ...

Wind turbines work properly in cold weather, contrary to social media posts that claim they fail when temperatures drop. An X post from July 2025 received more than 100,000 views while incorrectly ...

The blade was not broken by a major storm or other drastic event. Rather, the wind itself—the very thing the blade was designed to harness—broke the blade. The obvious question is whether wind plants ...

A Cedar County farmer is suing a manufacturer of wind turbines, alleging three turbine fires scattered debris over hundreds of acres of land, damaging his crops.Alan Weets of Mechanicsville is suing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young student has revamped a century-old math problem and unlocked a simple, yet elegant solution to optimize wind turbine flow ...