Check out this winner of the 2008 red dot design awards by Nils Uellendahl,It's a concept for a helical turbine that mounts dirctly onto over-head pwoer lines .It's quite interesting in two ways :
It generates electricity directly into the line using induction
It's actually horizontally mounted ,however is actually a traditonal vertical-axis turbine.
I'm sure there are some large issues with the electrical connection and grid stability (to sa the least),and with the additional loading of the power lines ,however it's a great concept



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