Patent ID: 8049351

Claim:
A power generating turbine comprising: a frame; a rotating member having a central axis of rotation and being rotatably supported by said frame; a plurality of turbine blades mounted to and supported at said frame by said rotating member and extending radially outward from said rotating member for rotation about said central axis of rotation; a magnet spaced outwardly from said central axis and supported by said rotating member radially outward from said central axis, said magnet being mounted to said rotating member by a support independently of said blades wherein the weight of the magnet is not bourne by said blades, said magnet having two sides and being movable in a rotational path about said central axis; and a stator coil assembly having first and second conductive coils, said coils located outwardly from said blades and supported by said frame, said coils being located along or adjacent said rotational path, and said coils straddling said magnet when said magnet is moved in said rotational path past said coils and being sufficiently close to said two sides of said magnet such that rotary movement of said magnet induces electrical current flow in said coils from said two sides of said magnet, and said coils being interconnected such that the induced electrical current flow from one side of said magnet is additive to the induced electrical current flow from the other side of said magnet.