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15 Energy need of our world increasingly continues in every field from lighting to production, and transportation to technology. This requirement is largely covered by fossil fuels and electric power. It is obvious that the need for electric power in the future will increase further considering that the fossil fuel reserves will only be enough for another twenty five years when considering the amount of consumption in the last twenty five years.

Generation of 20 electric energy by natural ways (as in our project) will have positive effects on the well-being of all living things and environment; and ensure the most efficient production of energy. Primary ways of electric generation can be listed as hydro electric power plants which are built on dams, diesel electric generation engines, natural gas, wind, solar energy and nuclear power plants. With these systems, electricity generation has many drawbacks from high costs to 25 environmental pollution.

Electric energy generation at dams both requires high investment costs and generation of electricity at a single point of the dam and as much as the flow rate of the dam decreases efficiency. Turbine system is another method used for electricity energy generation from flowing water. Turbine systems must have minimum 100 liters/sec flow rateof the flowing water; otherwise such systems do not work. Therefore, the flow rate problem of  2 turbine systems prevents building this system on every river.

There are other systems for electricity generation on straight flowing waters. These are serpent turbine or water-logged wheel systems. In wheel systems, only a certain part of the wheel can be logged into waterand therefore it is not possible to use any other device except the paddles, which are at the bottom of the wheel, to power-up the system. If the remaining paddles 5 of the wheel were also logged into water in a way that the wheel is completely submersed in water, the desired rotational speed and electricity generation would never be gained due to the friction force of the water The invented system generates equal electric power to that of a dam with ¼ of its cost if the outflow of the dam would have nearly 20% slope.

In addition, depending on land 10 conditions, 3 times higher power generation is possible. Patent US5,834,853 describes a system about generating hydroelectric power from rivers. In this system, the movement gained from the flowing water is transferred through to the wheel by multiple self-rotating paddle arms and shafts; and the motion energy is converted to electric energy by means of a dynamo. 15 Patent US 4,241,283 also employs successively lined turbines, the flow direction of the flowing water is directed to these turbines;

and the turbines are equipped with a lever which would arbitrarily prevent the contact between turbines and flowing water or lift them up from the water level. Furthermore, the system recommends a barrier to purify the incoming river water.

20 This and similar inventions can be found in patent US 6,551,053.