At many airports, runways are constructed to match the average wind direction of the location to prevent crosswinds. Also, where the wind direction is irregular, the runway may be designed in multiple ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Recently we have had some very windy days, but do we always know which direction the wind is blowing? In today's weather experiment we are going to build a wind vane or weather vane to ...

Winds are always named for the direction from which they blow. The best way to picture this is to stand so the wind is blowing into your face. The direction you are facing names the wind direction. A ...

With a wind sphere capable harnessing the wind’s power from all directions and being rather compact, the O-Wind turbine from O-Innovations is perhaps the type of omni-directional wind turbine that ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Brett, By general agreement in the meteorological and aviation communities, the term "wind direction" is defined as the compass heading FROM which the wind is blowing. This is in ...

When we think that researchers have found the optimal way to generate clean energy, along comes someone else with something even more innovative and cutting-edge. A start-up based in Lancaster, ...