{"id":191019,"date":"2024-06-11T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/worlds-heaviest-soaring-bird-inspires-wind-power-design"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:22:37","slug":"worlds-heaviest-soaring-bird-inspires-wind-power-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/worlds-heaviest-soaring-bird-inspires-wind-power-design","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s heaviest soaring bird inspires wind power design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgB-lgWxCVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When placed at the tip of a turbine blade, the c-shaped \u201cwinglet\u201d inspired by the condor reduces drag, potentially increasing the turbine\u2019s efficiency by up to 10% in optimal conditions, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0360544224003335\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The wings of soaring birds have also been adapted for use in commercial and military aircraft around the world to increase their lift, says co-author Brian Fleck, a professor of mechanical engineering and expert in fluid dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to have airplanes with straight wings,\u201d says Fleck. \u201cNow we see them with the tips curled up, and there\u2019s a reason for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When placed at the tip of a turbine blade, the c-shaped \u201cwinglet\u201d inspired by the condor reduces drag, potentially increasing the turbine\u2019s efficiency by up to 10% in optimal conditions, according to a study published in the journal Energy. The wings of soaring birds have also been adapted for use in commercial and military aircraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}