{"id":72032,"date":"2017-08-20T18:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/new-wind-turbines-could-power-japan-for-50-years-after-a-single-typhoon"},"modified":"2017-08-20T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T01:42:36","slug":"new-wind-turbines-could-power-japan-for-50-years-after-a-single-typhoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/new-wind-turbines-could-power-japan-for-50-years-after-a-single-typhoon","title":{"rendered":"New Wind Turbines Could Power Japan For 50 Years After A Single Typhoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-wind-turbines-could-power-japan-for-50-years-after-a-single-typhoon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figured this deserved its own post:<\/p>\n<p>The other day i had this idea for wind farms on the far Northern end of Canada, where it is basically a treeless desert, and have those running along the whole coast up there. I remember Japan was working on some wind power system where if it got hit by a typhoon it would supposedly produce 50 years worth of power. The main issues would be the cost of the wind systems, i don\u2019t even know if they are commercially available yet, secondly hooking them up to the power grid and trying to run it into the greater North American power grid, i don\u2019t know if the power grid stretches from up there down to the main grid. The plus to this as opposed to solar is this could be running up there 24\u00f77\u00f7365. Cost to do something like this, to start, probably in the neighborhood of 5 to 10 million dollars US, and would require a ton of connections.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Typhoons are generally associated with mass destruction, but a Japanese engineer has developed a wind turbine that can harness the tremendous power of these storms and turn it into useful energy. If he\u2019s right, a single typhoon could power Japan for 50 years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2016\/09\/new-wind-turbines-could-power-japan-for-50-years-after-a-single-typhoon\/\">https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2016\/09\/new-wind-turbines-could-p...e-typhoon\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figured this deserved its own post: The other day i had this idea for wind farms on the far Northern end of Canada, where it is basically a treeless desert, and have those running along the whole coast up there. I remember Japan was working on some wind power system where if it got hit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}