Researchers have borrowed from biological structures called tubercles that humpback whales use to maneuver in the ocean to make a piezoelectric energy harvester for use as an airflow or fluid speed and direction-sensing device.
SOURCE: Wind Energy News — ScienceDaily – Read entire story here.
Borrowing from whales to engineer a new fluid sensor
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