Turns out we were both kind of a right... they seem to have got it... but as it is untested,
at least one structural weakness has been found that limits it to quite small sizes only, as it seems to have tendency of bending out of shape...
And now I learned, to my great "humblement" why it was chosen and published therein: to show to all that even half baked unready ideas are ok to post, to encourage all the locals to post their own ideas, ready or not, and thus initiate a local dialogue for this type of ideas, so that eventually some working pieces would turn up.
Anyway, the organization liked my illustrations and now they are asking me to do just what you said: a simple, tested turbine that will work. For some odd reason Savonius type of turbines popped to my mind.... (probably nothing to do with your previous post... most likely the letters just randomly formed that word in my head at coincidentally opportune moment...).
So, with considerable deflated and tinier ego I'm asking of whether you happen to know of any such designs for true Savonius turbines that could be done in such conditions, from scavenged parts, and by totally uneducated people, if possible ? They are looking a model for water pumping (as generators seem rather overwhelming to most of such people... and me... to begin with).
Diagram, blueprints, photograph, description... anything would be helpful.
If such is not already somewhere it will be done from scratch (I'm thinking of recommending "T" -type gravity "pump", which throws the water around due to centrifugal force... due to it's great simplicity and lack of many moving parts...).
MaxT