In 1890, a fast-growing Indiana company, Flint & Walling, opened a distribution center for its popular Star Wind Mills in Cedar Rapids. A year later, the company decided to save on shipping and start ...

A Norfolk Broads wind pump has been fitted with a new set of sails for the first time in a century. Toft Monks Wind Pump on Haddiscoe Island near Great Yarmouth was last used in the 1930s when it was ...

Wind energy is electricity from the naturally flowing air in the Earth's atmosphere. As a renewable resource that won't get depleted through use, its impact on the environment and climate crisis is ...

The paper compares the performance of wind pumping systems (WPS) using centrifugal pumps, coupled by either mechanical or electrical drives. Mechanically driven systems are more appropriate for ...

SHEDD - For more than 150 years windmills have pulled water out of the ground for use on farms and ranches from coast to coast. But Oak Park Farms owner Don Coon may be the first person in North ...

ODESSA -- Their towers rise from the ground, their silhouettes a nostalgic reminder of America's pioneer past. But look closer and see that, constant as the blowing wind, the wheels of West Texas ...

Faster running lift pumps will be required in those situations where a lower solidity mill is employed, or where the water is close enough to the surface for direct drive from a small diameter high ...

Toft Monks Wind Pump has been fitted with new sails for what is thought to be the first time in 100 years ...