The wheels have begun to turn on an interesting new form of wind turbine in Sweden, with the country’s first wooden power-generation tower now complete. Built from sustainably sourced materials and ...

WASHINGTONVILLE — Ten percent of the wooden structure surrounding the base of a PPL Montour Power Plant cooling tower collapsed Tuesday, bursting pipes and spilling an undetermined amount of possibly ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. One of the many complaints we hear about wind turbines from ...

Getting a wind turbine to a decent height to allow it to reach stronger winds than those found closer to the ground generally means sitting them atop a tower. Despite the eco-credentials of wind ...

TOYKO (CNN) - A Tokyo skyscraper is set to become the world's tallest wooden building. Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry says its 1,148 feet tall timber tower will be completed by in 2041, to mark ...

Our attention has been drawn to an article, “Phasing out of wooden electricity poles baffling,” authored by Sammy Weya, the Vice Chair of Kenya Forest Growers Association and published in Saturday ...

The tens of thousands of massive towers around the world that hold megawatt-plus turbines hundreds of feet high, where the wind blows unimpede,d are fashioned of multiple steel plates rolled into a ...