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Sailing towards cheap, bountiful windpower: Hassine Labaied at TEDGlobal 2012
Hassine Labaied is here to talk wind. Specifically, wind power. ”Wind is clean, free, perpetually renewable and widely distributed across the globe,” he says. “Yet the current main wind technology, the turbine, is still based on a windmill system.” And existing turbines are terribly inefficient: 70% of wind power is simply lost, while the devices are also expensive …
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