Wind, solar, and…flutter? UMBC’s Justin Webster is using math to move this emerging tech forward

Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:19:01 -0400
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“There’s no such thing as free energy, but there are lots of situations where there’s ambient energy available,” like a flapping flag, Justin Webster says. “You just have to find an efficient mechanism for turning it into meaningful, useful energy.” That's what Webster and colleagues from Duke and Carnegie Mellon hope to help make happen with their new grant from the NSF.