Welcome to Engineering Futures Weekly, featuring the latest innovations, trends and announcements. This week: The ‘backwards’ wind turbine, long-duration drone flights, and ‘cool roofs’.
1. ‘Backwards’ wind turbine pivots downwind
A floating offshore wind platform that passively turns into the wind could withstand extreme conditions at sea, its creators have said. The NextFloat+ project will test the X90 platform in the Mediterranean.
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