Patent ID: 8106527

Claim:
An electrical power generating system having a support means for positioning and maintaining said power generating system in a water current, comprising: a rotor shaft, pivotally connected to said support means for positioning and maintaining said rotor shaft parallel to said water current, having one or more rotor blades with a base, a leading edge, a tip, and a trailing edge, where said leading edge begins at a front end of said base and continues to said tip and said trailing edge begins at said tip and continues to a back of said base functionally connected to said rotor shaft, where the kinetic energy in said water current causes said rotor blade to turn converting said kinetic energy into rotational mechanical energy, where said rotor shaft is further functionally connected to a hydraulic pump means for generating a hydraulic pressure which is transferred through a pipe means to a hydraulic generator motor means which converts said hydraulic pressure into rotational mechanical energy which spins a generator means for generating electricity which is transferred to an electric grid for distribution.