While wind energy ... himself to building a turbine specifically for Japan that can operate just fine within hurricane-force winds. (YouTube, embedded below.) The “typhoon turbine” as it ...

They’ve built a vertical axis wind turbine that’s built to not only to withstand typhoon-level winds, it’s designed to make the most of them. Instead of horizontally-situated blades arranged ...

TAIPEI/YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan with strong wind and torrential rain on Saturday, cutting power to 2 million households and killing at least two people ...

A Chinese multinational heavy equipment manufacturing company has unveiled an equipment capable of testing wind ... failure limit verification, and design model validation on the entire turbine ...

to propose typhoon-class wind-turbine design requirements,” Imamura says. Today, WINC has grown to eight members, including two external collaborators, and a team of three wind engineers.

damaging homes and knocking out power. The Okinawa prefectural government said 47 people were injured, three of them seriously. Two deaths were being investigated as typhoon-related but are not ...