(The Conversation) – In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the ...

A fear of many during a hurricane: Wind damaging your home's roof. Thanks to an FIU program, local high school students got a taste of the work engineers do to ensure safety and create rooftops that ...

It was the moment of truth. Students from South Florida high schools anxiously watched Zoom live streams to determine whether their models of flat rooftops would stand up against 70 mph winds at FIU’s ...

If we’re going to start using alternative energy, why not make an art out of it? It’s what this designer had in mind when he came up with his unusual wind turbine wall. But the appearance was not a ...

MIAMI – What if I told you that you can recreate the worst, most severe hurricane winds with the push of a button? That’s what scientists at Florida International University in Miami set out to do a ...

You may have seen renderings of an eye-catching wall covered in vertical wind turbines making the rounds online. That bold concept is finally spinning into reality with a product called Airiva from ...

WEST MIAMI-DADE (CBS4) - Florida International University's International Hurricane Research Center put its Wall of Wind to the test Tuesday afternoon, demonstrating a category five hurricane with ...

With the East Coast facing hurricane Sandy, one American university research team has built a “wall of wind” to help simulate -- and hopefully prevent -- a hurricane's destruction. Florida ...

Wind energy supports our future needs while becoming steadily easier to access. The Eolic Wall represents a transformative innovation that delivers an endless power supply to residential areas. A ...

Much has been written lately regarding the “sand problem” in our valley. I have a solution; but, first, some information. The wind blows and the water flows. The Banning Pass is a passageway for the ...