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 ...

When you mention the words “windmill” or “wind pump” to most Northern Cape overlanders, they will immediately think of the Fred Turner Museum in Loeriesfontein, where more than 27 of these creaking ...

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 ...

Wind power and heat pumps are obvious assets in the fight against fossil-fuelled climate change. But have you ever considered how well the two might work together? A new report from UK climate action ...

This paper discusses the main factors which influence the design of wind pump systems. Some of these factors are sometimes overlooked, for example the effect of borehole characteristics on the ...

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 ...