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2002 05 29 Wednesday dyree(e) in K
| crazy ideas # 42: Floating wind turbine could whip up rain |
 | Wind turbines could be turned into rain-making machines, claims a wave-power pioneer. |
| Stephen Salter, an engineer at the University of Edinburgh, became famous in the 1970s for inventing the "nodding duck" wave-power device, which spawned many of the designs now under development and in trials. At an international marine conference in Crete last week, Salter outlined his latest idea: a floating wind turbine that sprays water vapour high into the air, to increase evaporation from the ocean and precipitation over land. |
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