Japan turns the wind into electricity for the country for 50 years

A Japanese engineer who invented the world's first storm turbine could supply clean energy to the entire country for half a century.

Design of wind turbine columns. Photo: Inhabitat.

Atsushi Shimizu, a specialist at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan, designed the turbine to harness the power of storms in the form of renewable energy , reported 28-year-old Inhabitat. According to Shimizu, the energy obtained from a hurricane was enough to supply electricity to the whole of Japan for five decades.

Most conventional wind turbines are readily destroyed in the most violent tropical cyclones, but the new Challengergy turbine design, with Shimizu's longitudinal axis, is highly durable and can capture multiple directions. . According to an estimate by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Florida, a typhoon generates kinetic energy equivalent to 1.5 trillion Jun per second, enough for 38 households to use. all year.

The first prototype of a small turbine turbine was installed on Okinawa Island in western Japan. "Japan has more wind energy than solar but has not yet explored, and has the potential to become a superpower in terms of energy," Shimizu said.