02-01-2014, 01:45 PM
(11-03-2013, 01:48 PM)ai_vin Wrote: Looks like an idea I once had for a generating tether, but that used a line of vertical axis wind turbines like the Darrieus wind turbine or Turby; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turby_wind_turbine
I looked up Doug Selsam's patents, and some variations on his invention are a hybrid Superturbine/Darrieus.
https://www.google.com/patents/US6616402
https://www.google.com/patents/US6692230
https://www.google.com/patents/US8197179