Went to bed thinking about swaying trees after reading a recent post about capturing power from the movement of trees in the wind. This ruff drawing came out of that line of thought and it might work with some experimenting as there is almost always a light wind movement across the horse pasture at my place. a centrifugal clutch pulley is mounted to the generator to give the flywheel a chance to start turning before the clutch engages. Also a small pm motor can be put inline with the flywheel to give it a temporary boost to keep it spinning and the pm motor could be controlled by the rpm of the flywheel. This design could (if it works) be the answer for those that are not allowed to put up a windmill in their yard. Who could complain about you flying a flag in your yard? By using two recoil starts and replacing the pull rope with small cable, there will be more turns for a longer pull time on each cable and with the coil spring retracting whenever the wind varies there should be some movement most of the time to keep the flywheel turning. The clutch on the generator will release the flywheel to spin in low wind movement so that it will not have to restart as often, which takes a lot more force than sustained rotation. I am to tied up at the moment to try this by someone else may want to see if it will work. Enjoying myself, pepa.
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