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Well, it involves taking elements/ideas from direct drive turbines, magnetic bearing generators and contra rotation generators. imagine one tall squirrel cage style turbine (at this stage, just imagine the cylinder with the blades,nothing else), suspended by magnetic bearings so that minimal...

Perfect! Thanks for that. As you can probably tell, I am an extreme layman! Is there any sort of volt/amp loss due to the process of a slip ring? metal/graphite plates grinding against another metal plate to pass current through seems like there is a lot of potential for energy to be lost, and...

Morning all, I am currently designing a VAWT and am working on a contra-rotating turbine, but I am extremely new to electrical engineering as a whole, I just really like the idea of designing something like this as a fun project and possibly being able to benefit from lower power bills as a...