While the Japanese population certainly suffers terrible amounts of loss due to the country's frequent typhoons, Japanese engineer Atsushi Shimizu's new wind turbine proves that even the darkest clouds have a silver lining.
Wind energy is clean and renewable, with virtually no impact of the environment aside from the turbines themselves. Most turbines are quite efficient, but, ironically enough, they are not able to harness the most powerful and energy-filled winds that occur in natural phenomena like typhoons (or hurricanes, for those in the western hemisphere.) Atsushi Shimizu's new turbines are specially built to accrue energy from those intense winds, creating usable power out of typhoons' destructive force.
The typhoon turbines can stay standing during extreme winds due to their omnidirectional vertical axes and blades that have adjustable speeds.
Typhoon-Strength Wind Turbines
Atsushi Shimizu's Wind Turbine Can Withstand Gale Force Winds
Trend Themes
1. Typhoon-resistant Turbines - A disruptive innovation opportunity lies in developing wind turbines that can withstand the powerful winds of typhoons, allowing for the harnessing of clean energy even during extreme weather events.
2. Omnidirectional Vertical Axis Turbines - Developing turbines with omnidirectional vertical axes presents a disruptive innovation opportunity by allowing for the efficient capture of wind energy from any direction, including typhoon-strength winds.
3. Adjustable Blade Speed Turbines - Creating turbines with adjustable blade speeds offers a disruptive innovation opportunity by optimizing energy generation during intense wind conditions, such as those experienced during typhoons.
Industry Implications
1. Renewable Energy - The renewable energy industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by investing in the development and implementation of typhoon-resistant wind turbines that can generate clean energy even during extreme weather events.
2. Wind Energy - The wind energy industry has a disruptive innovation opportunity in the development of omnidirectional vertical axis turbines that can efficiently capture wind energy from any direction, including typhoon-strength winds.
3. Wind Turbine Manufacturing - The wind turbine manufacturing industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by incorporating adjustable blade speed technology into their turbine designs to optimize energy generation during intense wind conditions, such as typhoons.