Abstract: The invention relates to a device, having at least one rotor, which has an axis of symmetry with respect to which the rotor is rotationally symmetrical and which is rotationally motor-driven about the axis of symmetry of the rotor and which is mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation arranged transverse to the axis of symmetry such that, in the event of incident flow of a fluid, the rotor is rotationally driven in a rotational motion about the axis of rotation by means of a force acting transversely to the fluid flow. Said device enables the production of a rotational motion when the rotor is translationally driven in the fluid relative to the fluid in the longitudinal direction of the axis of rotation.

Abstract: The power output of a wind power station with a Darrieus Rotor is enhanced by wind guides positioned around the Darrieus Rotor to form a wind concentrator. The wind guides include at least two parallel wind deflection plates, displaced along parallel direction with respect to each other.

Abstract: A system and method for providing highly available and/or fault tolerant servers by implementing a lookup table or other data structure that allows a common file handle to be generated and interpreted by any component server of the HA server, thereby preventing stale file handles and removing local file system requirements as to media, implementation, and location.

Abstract: A system and method for providing high availability for telecommunications and data communications by implementing a network bus architecture at a card level. The network bus architecture, which may be a combination of hardware, software, and APIs, replaces the conventional midplane/backplane as the system bus for PCI purposes. The system provides physical redundancy to the system by connecting ports of the various system cards using dual/redundant ethernet switches. Further, since the system cards are connected through network connections, failure of any component is interpreted and addressed as a network failure instead of as a hardware failure.