A Spanish company built a bladeless wind turbine that sways instead of spinning, turning the vibrations caused by wind into electricity

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Image: AI generatedFor decades, wind turbines have followed the same basic design: towering structures fitted with enormous rotating blades that convert wind into electricity.
As manufacturers compete to build ever-larger turbines with blades stretching more than 100 metres, one Spanish company has taken a completely different approach.
Instead of spinning blades, its device is a slender vertical mast that oscillates with the wind to generate electricity.

Image: AI generatedFor decades, wind turbines have followed the same basic design: towering structures fitted with enormous rotating blades that convert wind into electricity.
As manufacturers compete to build ever-larger turbines with blades stretching more than 100 metres, one Spanish company has taken a completely different approach.
Instead of spinning blades, its device is a slender vertical mast that oscillates with the wind to generate electricity.

Sources: Times of India