Hi, this is Gene Bozler. I'm at my home in Cyprus, Texas. I'm facing south. I'm on the east side of my house and the wind comes up the street towards me. This is one of many spots where the wind is pretty decent. Okay, so first let me start by saying I am actively in search of generous donations of an alternator, preferably an amatec, but I'll take anything. I just want to try to connect this thing up to an alternator. So, I originally got this idea because I was looking for a way to get a good gear ratio. I have no idea if the gear ratio is correct. I guess it depends on whether or not it's a low RPM alternator or a high RPM alternator. On this particular design, this is like my first design here. I'm catching a lot of resistance on the backside of the spin from these. This is a wall of resistance coming up here. So, you know, this is just slapping this together. I got the idea to use the buckets from Hydro Power Tube. That's the name of the YouTube channel. Hydro Power Tube. He's got 12 buckets, but there's definitely an issue with wind resistance on that backside. Marlo Jane has taken a nap, but as soon as she wakes up, I'm going to run to the office and we'll get a bigger diameter piece of plywood and maybe do eight pieces, cut it when I can. Since I don't have a saw to cut it into a circle. So, this is a 10-foot diameter piece of plywood. Now, there's another guy on YouTube who has taken a bike and laid it on its side and used this configuration to increase the RPM's on his generator. And that's J.A. Luther. J.A. Luther has a Savonius style. J.A. Luther has a Savonius style vertical turbine, which is 255 gallon drums cut in half and configured in an S pattern on a vertical axis. He has his laid down on the other side, however. Whereas my configuration here has the bicycle with the left side facing up. He has his with the right side facing up. He has removed this pedal crank and mounted his Savonius blades directly onto these gears. Whereas, when I purchased this bicycle off of Craigslist, I specifically looking for these removable cranks, but I didn't realize that this right foot crank is attached to these gears. So, I turned the bike over and I removed the left pedal crank. And you'll see that this is a hub that I purchased from off of eBay from WindyNation.com. This is great. This was, you know, I had no idea how I was going to do this. So, this is a 16 millimeter hub and it reduces to half inch, came with a lock washer and a lock nut. I was afraid that being properly threaded and my configuration being in a counter threaded direction that it was going to work its way loose, but so far that hasn't happened. And it doesn't look like it's threatening to happen. So, one of my blades is catching right there. See that? Bang! Bang! Bang! Alright, I'm going to have to address that when I'm done recording. Okay, so, you know, my original idea was to figure out some way to attach the alternator to this axle here. But then I got to think and wait a minute. Why not, you know, how does a Ferris wheel work? A Ferris wheel works with pneumatic tires. They make the Ferris wheel turn around. And so, I thought why not take and leave this tire on here, okay? And it attaches a tire of a smaller diameter to the hub of the generator and get that spinning against it. And then I thought, okay, so, I mentioned this to my neighbor at the office, Donald, who's up a beautiful mind in his own right. And he said, why not a skateboard wheel? And I'm like, that's perfect. So, here's what I'm planning on doing here. If you imagine me getting rid of this brake assembly and mounting my alternator right here with a skateboard wheel directly mounted to the hub, and so that this is rubbing up against that skateboard wheel like that, causing it to spin. That's my idea. Of course, I would like this spinning at greater RPM than it is right now, but I need to address this wind resistance on the backside of the spin and get some better, more aerodynamic blades for my prime mover. But that's another issue altogether. So, you know, I'm soliciting advice about, you know, how to get the skateboard wheel, of which accepts a much smaller diameter axle onto the shaft of the alternator. I'm thinking of, you know, how I'm going to keep that cinched up at the proper tension up against the tire here. I also, I'm going to need to measure how much additional resistance that creates. So, we've got a pretty good wind going here, but imagine if I didn't have so much backside resistance over here. Imagine if I had eight blades instead of four, even 12, like I direct your attention to Hydro Power 2, he's got a 12-bladed rig mounted on plywood. So, info at wideworldoftrees.com. I also have a voicemail hotline. It's 262-724-6701. Please leave me a voicemail or send me an email. If you've got a hot lead on a generator or something sitting in your garage that you think might work, I'd be willing to pay for the shipping. Like I said, I'm accepting generous donations, also for a skateboard wheel. I'm going to go ahead and leave you with this for a couple of minutes. I don't know the wind speed. I've ordered an EVA, I've ordered one of those optical RPM meters for 20 bucks. I hope it works. I hope it does what I need it to do. I just saw that I used to cut the buckets. I eyeballed it. I think I'm getting a lot of back side resistance on this. So, comments on alternator, mounting the alternator, mounting the skateboard, mounting the entire bicycle onto a sturdier platform. Waterproof in the alternator is a bridge I intend to cross when I come to it. I'm nowhere near that far along yet. I mean waterproofing the alternator. So, I've got a couple of alternators on my watch list. One's in Canada and I'm not crazy about paying $35 for the shipping. But a beggar's can't be choosers. I need an alternator and I need a better design on my prime mover on my blades. Stay tuned for more. Thank you.