From community solar farms to co-owned wind turbines, eco-inventors are coming up with new ways to bring renewable power into our homes. Now, micro wind turbines designed to look like trees are ...

A French start-up says its Wind Tree is ideal for urban environments, harnessing the most gentle of winds to produce power through its micro-turbine leaves. Suzannah Butcher reports.

French company NewWind are to introduce tree-shaped wind turbines to the streets of Paris this March. It hopes the invention will be a visually appealing, urban alternative to traditional turbine ...

Three years of research have led a team of French engineers to produce their interpretation of wind energy for urban locations. The Wind Tree stands at 26 feet tall, and its branches adorn the ...

A startup in France called ‘Newwind’ has designed a special product which can be best described as a fake tree with small wind turbines for leaves. The company has already deployed a few units that ...

These trees do more than just add ambiance. Harnessing the wind to generate electrical energy usually brings to mind thoughts of huge land- or ocean-based wind farms consisting of huge towers with two ...

The power grid of the future may consist entirely of trees—and we don’t mean biofuel. French R&D company New Wind recently pioneered the “wind tree,” a wind turbine that is both silent and soothing to ...