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New kind of wind turbine

June 9th, 2010 by heynbn · No Comments · Physics

A scientist from Caltech’s Biological Propulsion Laboratory studies water and wind concepts. Bioinspiration processes are used to identify different types wind energies that are used in the world. he started to realize that schools of fish have constructive hydrodynamic interference located inside of the schools.

There are some problems that occur such as lack of space, the propellers have problems functioning because there is no room. vertical turbines use a vertical rotor and are new, which make it possible to be put on smaller land masses which make space harder to fill up. the turbines work in the same direction

The computer models that they used predicted that the wind energy taken from the land  are using a staggered placement approach which would be several times better than a conventional wind farms using horizontal-axis turbine.

He has bought two acres of land north of Los Angeles which hold six turbines on mobile platforms. I believe that these new types of turbines will help to make it possible to have more energy by not taking up so much space. By having more space we can save energy by using wind and it will not only make our lives easier but it will make our environment a more happier place. I think this is a great asset to our society which will help us to make bigger and better things in life that will change things for the better.

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