Wind turbine that conjures drinking water out of thin air offers hope to African communities

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137386/Eole-wind-turbine-generates-drinking-water-air.html By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 09:40 EST, 30 April 2012 | UPDATED: 09:56 EST, 30 April 2012 Wind turbines could also provide drinking water in humid climates following a breakthrough by a French engineering firm. Eole Water modified your typical electricity-generating turbines to allow them to distill drinking water out of the air in a […]

Broken down and rusting, is this the future of Britain’s ‘wind rush’?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116877/Is-future-Britains-wind-rush.html By Tom Leonard PUBLISHED: 20:00 EST, 18 March 2012 | UPDATED: 02:54 EST, 19 March 2012 A breathtaking sight awaits those who travel to the southernmost tip of Hawaii’s stunningly beautiful Big Island, though it’s not in any guidebook. On a 100-acre site, where cattle wander past broken ‘Keep Out’ signs, stand the rusting […]

A breath of fresh air: Clever gadget transforms the air from your lungs into energy to charge your phone

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2113539/AIRE-mask-uses-lung-power-charge-mobile-phone.html By Ted Thornhill and Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 15:18 EST, 11 March 2012 | UPDATED: 15:19 EST, 11 March 2012 Soon going for a run won’t just help your fitness levels, it’ll give your phone a boost too thanks to an ingenious new inventionthat uses the air from your lungs to charge it. The clever […]

Wind farms can actually INCREASE climate change by raising temperatures and causing downpours, warn academics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096797/Wind-farms-actually-INCREASE-climate-change-raising-temperatures-warn-academics.html Temperatures can fall by up to 4C downwind of farms Tory MPs write to PM demanding dramatic subsidy cuts By Chris Slack Last updated at 6:35 PM on 5th February 2012 They have long been championed as a way to combat global warming by creating clean energy. But wind farms can actually alter the […]

NOW WIND FARMS PAID TO TURN OFF

  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/292188/Now-wind-farms-paid-to-turn-off Wednesday December 28,2011 By Daily Express reporter OPERATORS of Britain’s wind farms are being paid millions not to produce power. Almost £7million was paid by the National Grid to 17 operators to turn off their turbines in the first nine months of this year. It is estimated that the payments for the whole […]