- Supports the blades at the tips eliminating cantilevering
- Prevents blades from hitting tower during storms or harmonic gusts
- Eliminates the gearbox and allows the generators to be lower on the tower resulting in a lower center of gravity, greatly reducing loads on the tower created by waves
- Avoids the extreme high torque when energy is captured at the hub
- Flywheel effect smooths out electrical production
- Having the blades supported at the tips eliminates blade fatigue caused by wave motion
- Allows for thinner and far more aerodynamically efficient blades
- Allows the design to withstand much higher winds
- Allows for steel cupped wheels
- The wheel is inherently one of the strongest designs known
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