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Friday, July 11, 2008

Counterintuitive Innovation

This is super-cool. The rules of aerodynamics says that you should have a smooth edge, to maximize lift and reduce rough air flow. Maybe not always. An entrepreneur has started a company called WhalePower that is building primarily wind turbines that are shaped like whale fins which - oddly enough - actually have small bumps on the edge that reduce stall.

It's pretty sweet. I want in.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/11/wind-turbine-whale-02.html
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