Wind Turbine with Sails - Homemade

Homemade sail wind turbine, using empty and cheap flour sacks as sails, and broom sticks as sail masts, capable of generating up to 30 Watts. Most components are domestic and can be found at home. Diameter is around 8 feet (2.5 meters). Maximum voltage was 8 Volts. Minimum was -7 Volts. Yes, it rotates in either direction, which is believed to be important in highly-turbulent air flow conditions in urban areas.
Empty flour sacks were used as sails. They are NOT pretty, but because they are woven plastic, they are flexible and weather resistant, and are similar to what one might expect in real sail material, but is much much cheaper.
Prevalent wind speed of around 13.2 feet / second (4 meters/second).
And, who ever said wind turbine have to be complicated?

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