In Portugal, wind turbine technicians get paid nearly double the average salary. It is a highly specialized position, and technicians must hang from turbines the size of 35-story skyscrapers to make ...

Humanity has been onto wind power—that is, using wind for pumps and mills—for centuries. But in more recent decades, industrial turbines have been built to generate electricity on a much greater scale ...

Dakota Carter was in middle school when a new wind farm went up near his hometown of Delavan, Illinois. He was fascinated by the project's turbines, which can churn out enough power for 35,000 homes. ...

The country's fastest-growing occupation is wind turbine technician, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — with numbers expected to more than double over the next decade. So what does a wind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wind turbine techs get paid $27 per hour to do one of the most dangerous jobs in the economy - and the profession is growing fast ...

Wind power is a growing part of the energy mix in the United States. And more wind turbines means there are new jobs for people to install and repair them. The job requires a unique skill set. With ...

The Bulgarian architects, Morphocode, have designed an apartment for the future that is actually based on an offshore wind turbine. Their conceptual design, known as the “Wind Turbine Loft”, is ...

BISMARCK, N.D. -- With wind turbine towers popping up on the U.S. landscape at a rate of almost 10 per day, the need for people to maintain and repair them is reaching the critical point. Community ...

The Wind Turbine Technician Academy at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Michigan graduated its fourth class on Dec. 22, 2011. A total of 16 students graduated from the 26-week-long ...

Nova Scotia Community College officials have tapped a Cape Breton campus for a new one-year program for wind turbine technicians. Port Hawkesbury's Strait Area Campus, which is adjacent to several ...