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Stories about: air flows

'Schools' of Wind Turbine Could Boost Production According to a growing body of evidence, it may be that rearranging wind turbines in fish school-like patterns could contribute to reducing the land surface the large structures take up, while at the same time preserving, or even increasing the output. Estimates say that the surface such a setup would occupy would be... 25 November 2009 07:07 GMT Piezoelectrics to Convert Air Flows into Electricity Piezoelectric materials are special classes of ceramics and crystals, which have the ability to generate electrical potential when mechanical pressure is applied on them. They currently provide the basis for a large number of applications, including powering up guitar pickups, making for fuses in rocket-propelled gre... 23 November 2009 01:41 GMT How Air Flows Can Move Mountains According to a new scientific study, it may be that air tides, or atmospheric-pressure fluctuations, are capable of causing massive landslides. The investigation that led to this conclusion was conducted on the Slumgullion landslide, a landscape feature located in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, and ... 2 November 2009 01:28 GMT