The Rare Earth Magnets market is poised for steady growth, driven by rising demand in electric vehicles, wind turbines, ...

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July 31, 2007 Sustainable generation of electric power is the key to realizing the vision of a world free from dependency on fossil fuels - the challenge is to ramp up the production of electricity to ...

There’s no shortage of stories about American companies that can’t cope with competition from overseas, and in manufacturing, that typically means China. But there are also stories, and more lately, ...

ExRo Technologies, a startup based in Vancouver, BC, has developed a new kind of generator that’s well suited to harvesting energy from wind. It could lower the cost of wind turbines while increasing ...

Small wind turbines don’t use the same technology found on the megawatt-scale behemoths populating wind farms. Here are a few of the main differences. • As one might expect, the internals of a small ...

NISKAYUNA — The federal government is betting $20.3 million that General Electric Co. can turn an MRI machine used in hospitals into a renewable energy powerhouse. The Department of Energy's Wind ...

With a new purchase, GE is betting on an early-stage turbine technology that could make offshore wind farms cheaper to maintain. The acquisition of ScanWind, based in Trondheim, Norway, has also ...

Crowdfunding has come to the small wind generation field with an Indiegogo campaign intended for an interesting target niche: a small wind generator designed to be clipped onto solar panels. According ...