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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.This'll just take a minute.

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The use of wind power continues to soar around the world.

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In 2008 the U.S.actually surpassed Germany as the world's top producer of energy from wind.

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It might seem that there aren't many improvements to make to what's essentially a passive technology.

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But researchers at the California Institute of Technology say the way fish school will help create more efficient designs for wind farms.

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They presented their research at a meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics.

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When fish swim, they leave little swirling vortices in their wake.

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By swimming together in a school, they can transfer energy to one another through these vortices.

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Wind behaves much as a liquid does.

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So the engineers have taken wind turbines that spin on vertical axes,

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these are different from the traditional horizontal wind turbine mostly in use today.

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On a computer, they've positioned the turbines close enough together that as one spins, it then directs the wind to its neighbor.

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According to the computer model, this design could increase wind farm efficiency a hundredfold.

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The next step for the researchers is to do a field test, trying out these fish dynamics on dry land.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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