Wind turbine with automatic tilting frame for unloading damaging winds encountered by wind turbines

A wind turbine assembly comprising:

• a support structure;
• a wind turbine mounted on the support structure, the wind turbine including:
• a front face with blades defining a surface area to engage incoming wind;
• a roll axis about which the wind turbine can rotate in response to incoming wind to drive an electric generator;
• the support structure defining a horizontal tilt axis about which the wind turbine can pitch forward and backward;
• the tilt axis dividing the surface area of the wind turbine into upper and lower portions of unequal size;
• wherein incoming wind on the front face of the wind turbine applies unequal force to the upper and lower portions of the surface area of the wind turbine, inducing pitch of the wind turbine about the tilt axis;
• wherein the wind turbine and support are balanced to allow the wind turbine to pitch about the tilt axis into plurality of positions based on incoming wind speed, including at least:
• a substantially vertical position in response to a particular non-zero wind speed;
• a high wind position in response to higher winds than the particular wind speed, the high wind position being at a non-zero angle to the substantially vertical position to reduce physical stress placed on the assembly;
• a rest position in response to no wind present, the rest position being at a non-zero angle to the substantially vertical position;
• wherein the support structure includes at least one surface configured to increasingly engage with the wind as the wind turbine rotates about the tilt axis in response to higher speed winds above the particular wind speed, wherein under hurricane conditions engagement of the at least one surface with hurricane winds in combination with the balance of the wind turbine and support structure rotates the wind turbine into and maintains a substantially horizontal position, the at least one surface being positioned at a lateral side of the wind turbine and extending in front of the wind turbine.