While the Netherlands is the country most known for its windmills, they were originally invented by the Persians. More surprisingly, some of them are still turning after 1,000 years. The ancient ...

Unlike the strictly ornamental porches tacked on to some new ... Mailboxes are sometimes treated as an important design element; in parts of Boca Pointe clusters of mailboxes sit under green ...

It dates back to the 1870s, and the wallpaper collaborations that Watson has worked on with the Victoria & Albert Museum have ...

Scottish professor James Blyth built the first windmill to make electricity in 1887, powering his holiday home in Marykirk. His second powered the Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary and Dispensary in ...

while minimizing their environmental footprint. Here’s why floating windmills may be the most promising iteration yet. Offshore wind is becoming an increasingly important part of the world’s ...

From his home studio near the University of Texas at El Paso, Stockmeyer turns the metal scraps into both decorative and functional ... and a pump house for a windmill, which we also built ...

Ancient mariners used sails to capture the wind. Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the ...

Hydrogen “subsidies are 1900 times larger than for nuclear, 9x larger than for solar, 47x than for wind and 1,800x larger than for hydrocarbon” energy. Biofuel subsidies are likewise enormous.

South Carolina’s sea islands offer so much in the way of natural beauty; in fact, the simple act of getting there seems to be ...

Before the accoutrements of modern life, like easily replicated metal parts, you may have found a sawtooth shelf doing the same job with just wood. The system comprises three parts: a series of ...

It’s also moderately invasive in parts of California. The low-maintenance European fan palm is perfect for smaller spaces as it grows in a compact, shrub-like, clumping form. The eye-catching ...