Ranchers use windmills and other pump systems to open more land for grazing by drawing well water for livestock to drink in areas without surface water. Blakeley, who has also installed solar pump ...

A new breed of renewable energy technology is displacing the iconic windmills that have pumped well water on prairie rangeland in the U.S. for more than a century. A windmill for pumping well water is ...

Solar-powered pumps have been available for more than 20 years, but their efficiency and durability have recently improved to the point that many ranchers are at least considering the solar option ...

Ken Spring doesn't need to pay for city water anymore to irrigate his 85 young fruit trees on his 3-acre Longview property off 33rd Avenue. That's because three months ago, he installed a 30-foot-tall ...

Bayonne officials are pumped up about a $5.5 million windmill that they say, if approved, would save the city a lot of green. The 260-foot tall windmill would be installed at the Oak Street pumping ...

The pump installer toppled the old windmill in about an hour, first climbing up the wobbly 27-foot tower to stop the broken mill’s whirling blade and then pulling the underground pipe to make way for ...