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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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(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.
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