Being an island nation, Japan is regularly hit by the typhoons. A Japanese engineer, Atsushi Shimizu has developed the first typhoon wind turbine in the world.
Shimizu wants to harness the energy from hurricanes as a rare form of renewables. He believes that the egg-beater-like contraption could power up the country for half a century by harnessing the energy from one typhoon.
The storms and typhoon pack in an enormous amount of kinetic energy. An estimate made by the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory revealed that energy produced by a mature typhoon is nearly equal to half the global electric power generation capacity.
The real challenge in designing a typhoon turbine is to develop an efficient turbine to harness the incredible source of green energy economically.
Challenergy is a vertical-axis Magnus generator devised by Shimizu. Challenergy can withstand powerful storm winds and typhoons and can harness energy for electricity generation.
The strong winds and tidal waves damage property and incur high repair costs. Thus, the Japanese are eager to find out if the turbine would work.
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