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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2010
Rand Elliott, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Jamey D. Jacob, Stillwater, OK (US);
Rand Elliott, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Jamey D. Jacob, Stillwater, OK (US);
R. Elliott & Associates, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Abstract
A building with an integrated wind-powered electricity generation system includes a plurality of floors, wherein each of the plurality of floors includes inhabitable space. The building further includes a plenum space between adjacent ones of the plurality of floors and a plurality of vertical axis wind turbines, wherein each of the plurality of vertical axis wind turbines is positioned within a separate plenum space. The building further includes at least one electricity generator operably coupled to the plurality of vertical axis wind turbines. At least one of the vertical axis wind turbines includes a wind screen extending around a portion of the outer circumference of the vertical axis wind turbine.