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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: 2) by Sulla on Friday September 30 2016, @03:13PM
These turbines in combination with http://www.designweneed.com/the-gravity-battery/ [designweneed.com] might be a nice way to store up some quick access power without taking away from normal baseline operations.
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(Score: 1) by TrentDavey on Friday September 30 2016, @04:26PM
Neat concept but no mention of the size/depth of the tubes or mass of the weights. Is it the size of a drilled water well or more like a dug well (manhole sized) and is the mass like a person or a small/large car etc. One can also store mechanical energy via a fly wheel in many different ways:
http://www.power-thru.c//flywheel_ups_technology.html/ [www.power-thru.c],
http://jalopnik.com/how-the-swiss-developed-an-emissions-free-bus-without-u-1413061006/ [jalopnik.com].
Dave.