Storms can be devastating, mainly because they have so much power and energy. An engineer wants to harness that energy with the world’s first typhoon win turbine, an egg beater-like contraption designed to harness the immense energy of storms as a unique energy source. The amount of kinetic energy generated by a typhoon is enormous, with researchers estimating that a mature typhoon produces a level of energy “equivalent to about half the world-wide electrical generating capacity.” The wide-scale implementation of such a device may seem far-fetched, but could be a way for Japan to give its renewable energy industry a massive boost.
This article was originally published on September 29, 2016
