March/April 2013

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Mountaineers cash in on their rope skills to keep America's wind farms humming.
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Corporate Climbers

Trading granite walls for giant turbines, mountaineers cash in on their rope skills to keep America's wind farms humming

Text and photographs by Andy Isaacson

March 18, 2013

Wind is no longer the energy source of the future. It's ready today.
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Anywhere It Blows

Wind is no longer the energy source of the future. It's ready today.

By Edward Humes

March 1, 2013

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Conflict Avoidance

Wind power is inexhaustable, clean, and virtually free—but still not perfect.

By Paul Rauber

March 25, 2013

CalTech biophysicist (and MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" winner) John Dabiri applied what he learned studying the fluid dynamics of schooling fish to design an entirely new wind turbine.
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Look to the Fishes

Biomimicry provides design for cheaper, smaller turbines

By Edward Humes

March 12, 2013

Tom Wylie in the workshop adjacent to his Canyon, California, home. The model in the foreground is of a Wyliecat 44. | Photo by Mitch Tobias
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The Art of Diminished Resistance

Tom Wylie wants to change the way ocean researchers commute to work

By Steve Hawk

May 4, 2013