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TOKYO — A Japanese engineer has designed a new type of wind turbine that he believes would be able to harness power from typhoons. Atsushi Shimizu founded a tech company called Challenergy in 2013 and invented a wind turbine that not only can draw power from the force of wind, but can stay functional during typhoons. The typhoon turbine consists of three vertical blades and a central rod. It has an omnidirectional axis so that it can respond to wind coming from every direction. Instead of driven by a propeller, the turbine makes use of the principle of the Magnus effect: air curves when passing by a rotating object, and the downward deflection of the air-flow produces a lifting force that counteracts the force of gravity, enabling the object to remain airborne. The blades are controlled by the central rod, which can be tightened to slow down, or stop the blades regardless of the external forces. Under normal circumstances, the typhoon turbine can achieve about 30 percent efficiency while conventional wind turbine can achieve 40 percent, ScienceAlert reported. However, conventional wind turbines could be damaged by typhoons while the typhoon turbine would be able to function normally. "Japan actually has a lot more wind power than it does solar power, it's just not utilized," Shimizu told CNN. "Japan has the potential to be a super power of wind.” According to the Japan Guide, about seven or eight typhoons pass over Okinawa prefecture each year, with about three hitting its main islands. Shimizu believes a single typhoon could generate enough energy to power Japan for 50 years. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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invest in battery storage..
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Very practical for 24/7 8760h/y base-load production! Because typhoons blow every day!
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very imagings
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I'm a bit concerned about the shear force & bending moment of that central shaft but the concept makes sense.
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The only sure way that I have seen to store energy is to use it to pump water uphill and then release the water to turn a turbine. Loche Awe Scheme in Scotland uses that system.
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And all we need is crowd funding...
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How big and ugly will it be in practice, though? Too much scenery is being ruined by standard wind turbines, which usually get placed in nice, rural areas instead of cities, thus turning natural-looking regions into industrial parks. There's nothing green about that. It's just more industry and less nature.
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Sorry but, this is very old technology. Why are people using old technology and claiming that it is new and revolutionary?
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Awesome
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How do you store 50 years of energy?
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Japan should rule the world !!
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this stupid crap. the invention was 50 years old. It was invented by the Chinese.
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🖒🖒🖒🖒
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This should be in the philippines. 19typhoonscper year on average
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they should make tsunami and earthquake turbine
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"India banned currency of 500 and 1000 notes "
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and how will he store this energy for month? )))
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subscribe me
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i should have a Japanese boyfriend
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Are they going to string together every rc car and plane's lithium ion battery pack to catch all that energy? LMAO Retards. First they build a round bladed fan then they forget to build the battery to store the "50 years of energy". Fuckin dumbasses . Lolol