Does anyone know of a wind turbine that is a vertical barrel type, with helical slots.?

[william d]

I'm looking for the maker or designer of a vertical barrel type wind turbine that uses a barrel type cylinder with helical slots from top to bottom. There was an initial problem with the barrel(stator) being too heavy for the base causing friction and drag. However this was overcome by putting magnetic rings (reversing the poles) between the Barrel base and the generator base, this kept the barrel and base apart by magnetic forces thus eliminating the friction and drag, this allowed the unit to work in extremely low wind speeds. Also with the helical slots, the unit would rotate no matter what direction the wind was coming from. I am looking for this information as i would like to use it for generating electricity from wind power to reduce my dependence on municipality supplied electricity which is increasing in price at an alarming rate due to gross negligence and miss management of the state owned power stations