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    This New Wind Turbine Could Power Japan for 50 Years After One Typhoon

    This New Wind Turbine Could Power Japan for 50 Years After One Typhoon

    A typical typhoon produces wind speeds between 98 and 120 m.p.h. and usually leaves behind a trail of destruction. But a Japanese engineer has plans to harness a typhoon’s incredible wind energy and use it to power the nation. Atsushi Shimizu has just invented the world’s first typhoon-powered wind …