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Dean Kamen’s Inflatable Wind Turbine Dean Kamen’s Inflatable Wind Turbine

TechCrunch: Most wind turbines have a recognizable shape, but a new design from Segway inventor Dean Kamenn is less obvious in its functionality: This turbine has a vertical axis and rotors made of plastic fabric meant to be easily moved by the wind. Archetypal wind turbines require a good amount of steel and concrete to [...]