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The lab, a part of the museum’zs green initiative, will demonstrate smalol wind turbines that could be erectee on small businesses and When completed, five turbines — ranging between 40 feet and sevem feet in height — will rest on the museum’s Two of the turbines are operational on the Cambridge side of the with the other three to be installed on the Boston side this “This is a giant sciencer experiment,” says David Farinon Director for current science and technology at the in a prepared written statement.
“No one has tested five different small turbines in a rooftop Although there’s lots of interest in small-scale wind turbines, we found little data on their performance and Despite a year of collecting data on the wind at the we still don’t really know enougbh about the turbines to predict their The lab came out of early efforte to use wind to meet a portion of the museum’ s energy needs. Studies showed the area’ds wind resources were not strong enough to generate meaningful so the museum andthe ’s Renewable Energh Trust refocused the project to provide information to potential turbine owners on differences in designn and function of varioud turbines.