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martyb
on Friday September 30 2016, @01:45AM
from the gonna-need-a-really-big-battery dept.
from the gonna-need-a-really-big-battery dept.
Typhoons are generally associated with mass destruction, but a Japanese engineer has developed a wind turbine that can harness the tremendous power of these storms and turn it into useful energy. If he's right, a single typhoon could power Japan for 50 years.
Atsushi Shimizu is the inventor of the world's first typhoon turbine—an extremely durable, eggbeater-shaped device that can not only withstand the awesome forces generated by a typhoon, it can convert all that power into useable energy. Shimizu's calculations show that a sufficiently large array of his turbines could capture enough energy from a single typhoon to power Japan for 50 years.
Less efficient that traditional turbines, but built more rugged to survive a typhoon.
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New Wind Turbines Could Power Japan for 50 Years after a Single Typhoon
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @01:58AM
How are they going to store 50 years worth of energy?
Oh, wait a sec. He needs a "sufficiently large array" of them to capture that energy. Well, I could power Japan for 50 years too using solar power if I had a sufficiently large array of solar panels. That's the definition of "sufficiently", just like the answer of "How much of XYZ is too much?" is always "too much".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @02:41AM
sigh...
The journalist puts up some sensational click bait and misrepresents what the numbers mean and people fall for it like lemmings.
The figure means that is how much POTENTIALLY trappable energy a typhoon contains.
Yeah yeah, everyone knows that is not how much you would get in reality...DUH!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @03:15AM
The journalist? How about the story submitter and/or editor?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday September 30 2016, @04:04AM
How about the story submitter and/or editor?
Exactly
We don't have to submit trash and waste everybody else's time.
And if we do submit it we can tone it down to just report a durable windmill.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 30 2016, @06:20PM
People don't store Libraries of Congress on their iPhone, either.
(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Friday September 30 2016, @04:00AM
Yup, hype hype hype.
First you are lead to believe one would suffice in Typhoon.
They they let slip that you need a whole array as well as the Typhoon.
By the end of the article, you realize you need a huge array, and a Typhoon that lasts 50 years.
This is what journalism school does to people.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 30 2016, @07:16AM
That was my immediate reaction as well. May as well say that a single Hiroshima-sized bomb would produce enough energy to power Japan for 50 years.
(OK, I'm exaggerating for effect there, it's only about 20MW/h, the point is that you've got just as much chance of storing it as for the wind farm in the original article).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @09:28AM
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday September 30 2016, @06:15PM
After reading the headline, I was envisioning perpetual motion machines that spin at high speeds.
Welp, there goes that idea.
The article has this to say about power storage:
So they did not even finish researching the story before publishing!