Power generating system

Claim 1

A power generating system including a turbine and a radiant heat boiler, the turbine comprising a stator having a cylindrical bore, a cylindrical rotor coaxially journalled in said stator and provided with a substantially uniformly rough lateral surface, and an output shaft secured to the rotor and projecting axially from one end of the rotor; and the radiant heat boiler comprising a hermetically sealed polyhedral enclosure, radiant heat reflecting surfaces on the inner walls of the polyhedral enclosure, a radiant heat source within said polyhedral enclosure, and a pressure vessel for a motive fluid situated within said polyhedral enclosure and provided with a fluid inlet means and a fluid outlet means; said turbine stator being provided with a motive fluid inlet port near one end of the rotor and with a motive fluid outlet port near the other end of the rotor; said motive fluiD inlet port communicating with the fluid outlet means of said pressure vessel; said motive fluid outlet port communicating with the fluid inlet means of said pressure vessel; and the inner wall of said stator being provided with a continuous helical groove over that portion of the inner wall which is coextensive with the lateral surface of the rotor, one end of said groove communicating with said inlet port and the other end of said groove communicating with said outlet port.