Abstract: A method of generating advertising revenue by securing an FM subcarrier frequency through an FM broadcasting station and distributing portable receivers to end users tailored to play the audio signals broadcast over the FM subcarrier frequency, on demand. Public service audio clips and advertising audio clips are broadcast to the portable receivers with the intention that a listener will be exposed to both the public service audio clip and the advertising audio clip during the period of the broadcast. The public service audio clips and advertising audio clips are broadcast in a continuous loop and are coded with start and stop signals to indicate the beginning and end of the broadcast. Through this method, an individual requesting the broadcast will hear a signal loop of the audio, starting with the detection of the start signal and ending when the detection of the stop signal.

Abstract: A turbine apparatus for providing support peripherally for a turbine rotor having either a vertical or horizontal axis of rotation. The present invention includes a plurality of blades distributed about the rotor, the blades across their width being shaped and angularly pitched to the flow of air therebetween to effect rotation of the rotor and the blades defining a peripheral boundary of the rotor. A support system for the blades includes a support ring concentric with the turbine axis of rotation and adjacent to the peripheral boundary of the rotor. A support mechanism for each blade includes a support assembly mounted in rotational supporting association with the support ring so that the mass and forces generated by each blade is substantially supported at the peripheral boundary of the rotor by the support ring.

Abstract: A turbine apparatus for providing support peripherally for a turbine rotor having either a vertical or horizontal axis of rotation. The present invention includes a plurality of blades distributed about the rotor, the blades across their width being shaped and angularly pitched to the flow of air therebetween to effect rotation of the rotor and the blades defining a peripheral boundary of the rotor. A support system for the blades includes a support ring concentric with the turbine axis of rotation and adjacent to the peripheral boundary of the rotor. A support mechanism for each blade includes a support assembly mounted in rotational supporting association with the support ring so that the mass and forces generated by each blade is substantially supported at the peripheral boundary of the rotor by the support ring.