Subject: Re: Efficient Wind turbine: Modified Darius Rotor

From: [email-masked] (Nick Pine)
Date: 7 Jul 1995 10:30:27 -0400

One might modify [email-masked] (number1)'s drawing:

               |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  ||generator--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--swivel--||
  ||           |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |          ||
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  ||<-pole                                              ||
  ||                                                    ||     \
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  ||                                                    ||    guy wire
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Seems like this might work nicely with transverse airflow between the poles,
or between Swiss mountaintops in some valley, with flexible plastic Savonius
rotors attached to triple power line conductors using slip rings, or a couple
of telephone poles lined up with the strongest prevailing winds in a region,
with those little propellors that you often see on peoples' lawns, actually 
doing something for a change.

Nick