Flying Turbine Lifts Wind Power
source: http://www.livescience.com/13074-makani-power-flying-wind-power-turbine.html
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Makani Power's flying power generator began with a simple question: If almost all wind power comes from the very tip of a windmill's rotor blade, can one build a turbine that is just the tip? The solution, it turned out, involved cross-breeding a conventional windmill with a model planes.
:http://www.livescience.com/13074-makani-power-flying-wind-power-turbine.html
:http://www.livescience.com/13074-makani-power-flying-wind-power-turbine.html
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- Wind Power, Efficiency, power-generating
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aaron1972
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Look...up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's...21st century technology utilized by the best and brightest minds to get our planet off its dangerous addiction to fossilized fuels.
No...wait. I guess it is a plane...
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aaron1972
