A wind generator system includes a stationary frame, a shaft, mechanical
bearings and a stator and a rotor, along with magnetic components
configured to reduce or substantially eliminate various loads imposed on
the mechanical bearings by the system and by wind. In particular,
magnetic components at a bearing closest to the vanes of attached to the
shaft act to impart a force on the shaft opposing gravity. Magnetic
components at a bearing along the shaft distal from the vanes act to
impart a force on the shaft opposing a bending force exerted by the shaft
on the bearing at that point. Additional magnetic components act to
oppose gravity adjacent the stator and rotor. Still further magnetic
components act to impart a force on the shaft opposing the wind force.