Steam turbines have helped drive a large chunk of our technological development over the last century or so, and they’ll always make for interesting DIY. [Hyperspace Pirate] built a small ...

His solution was straightforward—he built his own hose-powered generator that actually worked. The design uses a turbine hooked up to a small motor acting as a generator. To maximize the ...

The team decided on a vertical wind turbine generator after examining the wind flow pattern because of its small size, light weight, and nominal power of 9 kW, which makes it perfect for ...

The fans operated at 480 V and ran at 900 rpm. The researchers chose to use Tesup V7 wind turbines to capture the wasted wind because of their small and lightweight features. They mounted six of ...

Now that the weather is warming up, you may want to take a small generator with you when you go camping. Or maybe you want to ...

Developed by Australian clean-tech company Mett, EcoWhisper is the perfect size for urban settings, and it is quiet, small and easy to maintain. The thing with big wind turbines was that there was no ...

Everything is bigger in Texas, the saying goes, but for one thing: wind turbines. The US state is covered in many short wind turbines, thanks to a rush of development in the two decades before 2021, ...

Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more than 25 percent per year. Still, it only provides a small fraction ...

Now that the weather is warming up, you may want to take a small generator with you when you go camping. Or maybe you want to finally get a backup power station in case the electricity goes out.