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title: The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power’s Biggest Problems — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-tech-that-could-fix-one-of-wind-powers-biggest-problems/
date: 2016-08-13
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# The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power’s Biggest Problems

Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of the green energy story. He found a start-up called Icewind that is building a new type of funky wind turbine designed to perform well in low-wind conditions but also to slow itself down in high-winds, preventing it from catching on fire or ripping apart.