{"id":14176,"date":"2010-12-09T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/uncategorized\/modified-blades-inspired-by-humpback-whale-flippers-increases-efficiency.php"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T09:58:43","slug":"modified-blades-inspired-by-humpback-whale-flippers-increases-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/modified-blades-inspired-by-humpback-whale-flippers-increases-efficiency.php","title":{"rendered":"Modified blades inspired by humpback whale flippers increases efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Modified-blades-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Modified-blades-1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"353\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\nBesides just eating a lot of tiny fish and laying around in the deep blue, whales these days are inspiring designers, helping them increase the efficiency of hydroelectric turbines. Naval Academy engineering professor, Mark Murray shows off a turbine blade modified and inspired by humpback whale flippers, with tubercles. These modified blades are a lot more effective than the normal ones with smooth edges, while functioning at low speeds. Also, these did not degrade in performance even at higher speeds. This makes the whole concept of generating energy from water force using turbines a lot more economical and efficient.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe project is an undergraduate independent research study by Ensign Timothy Gruber from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology&#8217;s. We sure hope it helps give hydroelectricity a technology boost.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyharvestingjournal.com\/articles\/whale-inspired-blades-for-ocean-energy-harvesting-00002890.asp?sessionid=1\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">EnergyHarvestingJournal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides just eating a lot of tiny fish and laying around in the deep blue, whales these days are inspiring designers, helping them increase the efficiency of hydroelectric turbines. Naval Academy engineering professor, Mark Murray shows off a turbine blade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/modified-blades-inspired-by-humpback-whale-flippers-increases-efficiency.php\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Continue reading3 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1036,698],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Modified blades inspired by humpback whale flippers increases efficiency -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/modified-blades-inspired-by-humpback-whale-flippers-increases-efficiency.php\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Modified blades inspired by humpback whale flippers increases efficiency -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Besides just eating a lot of tiny fish and laying around in the deep blue, whales these days are inspiring designers, helping them increase the efficiency of hydroelectric turbines. 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