{"id":846,"date":"2010-08-04T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/?p=846"},"modified":"2016-01-02T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:38:44","slug":"wind-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/archives\/846","title":{"rendered":"Wind Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnngo.com\/tokyo\/life\/wind-lens-floating-farms-could-triple-electricity-production-877035\">News<\/a> this week from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergy.jp\/english\/index.html\">Renewable Energy International Exhibition<\/a> in Yokohama, Japan highlights some visually and technologically interesting new turbine designs for offshore wind power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yourolivebranch.org\/2010\/07\/21\/japan%E2%80%99s-next-generation-of-renewable-energy\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windlens-thumb-550xauto-44293-500x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"windlens-thumb-550xauto-44293-500x248\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-845\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hoop that surrounds the blade structure acts like a magnifying lens to increase the speed of the wind at the center of the circle. We can&#8217;t claim to understand the physics behind this effect, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnngo.com\/tokyo\/life\/wind-lens-floating-farms-could-triple-electricity-production-877035\">news reports<\/a> cite verifications experiments that have been conducted and it appears that the project is getting support for construction in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yourolivebranch.org\/2010\/07\/21\/japan%E2%80%99s-next-generation-of-renewable-energy\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/inline-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"inline (1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-848\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The addition of more blades and a hoop around them makes the turbines look just a little bit more like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londoneye.com\/\">London Eye<\/a> than your standard three blade HAWT. Will this aesthetic appeal to more people and lead to a greater acceptance of wind turbines that are located in view of highly populated areas? Perhaps if they can offer rides in gondolas that run around the hoops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News this week from the Renewable Energy International Exhibition in Yokohama, Japan highlights some visually and technologically interesting new turbine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}