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Old 09-16-2010, 10:35 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by winkosmosis View Post
I for one don't like this. They may be more efficient but the lumpy edge is ugly!! I just hope cars don't end up with weird lumps on leading edges.
I don't know if this will be readily applicable to cars. As for aesthetics, I think if you painted the blade like a humpback whale fin, and it was shaped like one, that would be pretty wild. Maybe have a whale tail for the vertical fin. Either way, noise I think is often a bigger issue than aesthetics (though I think they do look pretty cool, and they look better knowing it's from a whale's handywork). And efficiency trumps all. If this is what it claims, it's pretty damn sweet.
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