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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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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 1) by tekk on Friday September 30 2016, @04:38AM
Note that he said almost nothing, not nothing: Stirling Engines are known for being ridiculously efficient, but generating approximately no power in absolute terms.
(Score: 1) by tekk on Friday September 30 2016, @04:40AM
or to clarify, not that it generates little power in absolute terms, but it has a poor power:weight ratio, making we've tended to use other engines.