Windmill
This short news item describes an unusual but simple windmill design.
Windmill With Narrow-Blade Wings
Severn River Tidal Power Project
This article by Paul H. Woodruff describes the potential of tidal-power project on Severn river. This idea is yet to be realized.
Britain’s Huge Tidal-Power Project
Severn Barrage (Wikipedia)
Oct 102010
Oil Derrick
This article describes what it calls the world’s most inaccessible oil well at Point Fermin, California. We have surely come a long way since then.
The World’s Most Inaccessible Oil Well
Oct 102010
Windmill
A picture of a windmill shown at a recent (1921) fair in Paris. A short description accompanies the picture.
Novel Windmill Unaffected By Wind Direction
Bicycle Drive
A short description of a bicycle driving horse clippers. In our past there were many such bicycle drives conversions from which we can learn today.
Sailing Handcar
This short news item describes how people of a remote English village of Spurn Head rigged a railroad handcar with a sail.
Railroad Handcar With Sail Hauls Entire Village
Georges Claude's OTEC
This article describes Georges Claude’s OTEC’s “ocean thermal energy conversion” (OTEC) plant in Matanzas, Cuba. Georges Claude was a famous French engineer and inventor.
Power From The Sea
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (National Renewable Energy laboratory – NREL)
Solar Water Heater
With all this recent talk about solar energy one might think solar energy capture is a new technology but this article by Ernest E. Oertel dispels any such notions. The author describes a functional solar water heater as one could find at the time in California.
Windmill
A short story about a windmill design from France. So many people believe that energy from wind is something new and high tech but there are plenty of stories like this to dispel any such notions.
Put the Wind to Work Generating Electric Power
