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posted by martyb on Friday September 30 2016, @01:45AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by BK on Friday September 30 2016, @05:32AM

    by BK (4868) on Friday September 30 2016, @05:32AM (#408256)

    Since it's Japan, how many fighting giant humanoid robots could be powered by such an array? And for how long?

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