Butte Valley >> The growing availability of electricity spelled their death, but for generations windmills were the backbone of the American frontier. With squeaky determination, they faced the wind ...

Regarding the letter by Don Siefkes, of San Leandro, "Let's fill Lake Powell in less than a year via Mississippi aqueduct." As long as we are dreaming up solutions, the aqueduct should be terminated ...

In the course of blogging for MEN we have met many people from all over the world. Recently that included Darren and Linda Holliday from Missouri. Darren contacted me to ask my opinion on a water ...

The first such windmills were developed in the mid-1850s by Connecticut machinist Daniel Halladay. They differed dramatically, both in form and function, from traditional European windmills (think Don ...

Scientists have designed a system that combines solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage to operate water pumping systems in Jordan. They simulated it under several scenarios in search of the ...

These days, the word “windmill” is virtually synonymous with the Altamont Pass, where hundreds or thousands of giant windmills gracefully spin while they generate clean, quiet electrical power. But a ...