This wind turbine has no blades — and that’s why it’s better

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By Amelia UrryMay 20, 2015, 3:45 pm87 pts
What do you get if you take the blades off a wind turbine? A better wind turbine. That sounds like a joke, but that’s actually more or less the model of a new wind turbine prototype. Instead of blades that turn in the breeze, the turbine is just a hollow straw that sticks up 40 feet from the ground and…

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