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Typhoon, hurricane or tropical cyclone are characterized and driven by the release of large amounts of latent heat of condensation. It is said that an average typhoon has a huge energy of 1018J, which is enough for annual Japanese electric power.But until now,there are no idea or technical discussions to utilize such strong wind energy sources for human beings. Therefore, if we could develop a system that generates electricity directly from the typhoon, we could obtain clean and abundant energy. In this research, we propose the concept of a floating power plant designed as a mega sailing yacht with some underwater power generators. This power plant operates using typhoon or strong wind energy with its sails and the underwater propeller generators that yield electric power,which will be stored by batteries or H2 conversion. Our feasibility study shows that using the 1000mega yacht fleet, the annual electric power in Japan can be easily obtained with no CO2 emission.We also compare our concept with the mega-float wind power concept proposed in Japan.
Keywords: natural energy, utilization of typhoon energy, mega sailing power plant ship
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