US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Mechanical-only, multi-use, automatically retractable vertical wind turbine, using wing drag" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,987, issued on June 23.

"Mechanical-only, multi-use, automatically retractable vertical wind turbine, using wing drag" was invented by Guy P. Gadola III (Sharpsville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is disclosed is a vertical-axis wind turbine that looks somewhat similar to a vertical pole during no-wind or relatively low-wind conditions, i.e., when the turbine is waiting for relatively windy conditions, and that transitions between its "waiting state" and "wind harnessing state" automatically. Yet, to automatically transition between states, the turbine uses relatively few moving mechanical assemblies and uses no electric pa...