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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 30 > Modern technology takes a cue from a humpback’s flippers

Modern technology takes a cue from a humpback’s flippers

By Tom Avril / The Bulletin
June 30, 2008

PHILADELPHIA — A West Chester University professor has developed a new wind turbine that draws inspiration from a blubbery source: the flippers of a humpback whale.

Those knobby flippers were long considered one of the oddities of the sea, found on no other earthly creature.

But after....

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