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US 8,786,126 B2Granted
Wind turbine having two hemispherical blades
OwnerThomas Meyerinventor
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Abstract
A wind turbine having two blades is rotated by omnidirectional gas motion. A generator is connected by a shaft to the wind turbine for generating electrical power by the rotation of the wind turbine. A method of extracting energy from moving gas comprises rotating a wind turbine having two blades by omnidirectional gas motion. The method includes connecting a generator by a shaft to the wind turbine and generating electrical power by the rotation of the wind turbine.
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A wind turbine, comprising:
- a wind turbine having two blades connected by a shaft extending between an upper and a lower portion of the two blades and being rotated about the shaft by omnidirectional gas motion with vertical and horizontal gas components;
- the turbine being a generally spherical shell consisting of the two blades, each of which is an identical areal segment comprising half the surface area of the spherical shell and having a blade edge formed of a single two-wavelength sinusoid that extends from the upper portion to the lower portion of the spherical shell and then back to the upper portion on a far side of the shell;
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- a generator connected by the shaft to the wind turbine for generating electrical power by the rotation of the wind turbine.
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A method of extracting energy from moving gas comprising:
- providing a wind turbine being a generally spherical shell consisting of the two blades, each of which is an identical areal segment comprising half the surface area of the spherical shell and having a blade edge formed of a single two-wavelength sinusoid that extends from the upper portion to the lower portion of the spherical shell and then back to the upper portion on a far side of the shell;
- rotating the two blades of the wind turbine about a shaft extending between an upper and a lower portion of the two blades by omnidirectional gas motion with vertical and horizontal gas components;
- connecting a generator by the shaft to the wind turbine;
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- generating electrical power by rotating the wind turbine.
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