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This Japanese start-up has designed a wind turbine that can work in typhoons

Power-generating windmill turbines are seen out a sea.

Cyclonic conditions typically shut down most wind installations. Image: REUTERS/Yves Herman

Rikako Murayama
Reporter, Reuters
Aaron Sheldrick
Journalist, Reuters
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