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.
(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.
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