Patent ID: 8322992

Claim:
A method of making a vane assembly for use in a modular wind-driven electrical power generator, the method comprising the steps of: providing an axial shaft; securing a plurality of spaced-apart plates around the shaft, each plate extending radially outward from the shaft so that the shaft is balanced during shaft rotational displacement about the axis, each plate being in a separate plane substantially perpendicular to the shaft and parallel to the other planes; providing plural sheets of bendable material, each sheet for forming a vane; bending each sheet so that opposite ends are brought toward the other to form a vane with a closed leading side, an open trailing side, open outboard and inboard ends, and opposed upper and lower sides; securing the upper and lower sides of each vane between two plates to form the vane assembly, each vane extending radially outward from the shaft so that the shaft is balanced during shaft rotational displacement about the axis, the closed leading side faces a direction of shaft rotation and the open trailing side faces a direction opposite to the direction of shaft rotation; and securing an end cap over each vane outboard end.