Museum of Science to launch wind lab - Boston Business Journal:

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The lab, a part of the museum’s greeb initiative, will demonstrate small wind turbines that coulx be erected on small businesses and When completed, five turbines ranging between 40 feet and seven 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 installedd on the Boston side this summer. “This is a giang science experiment,” says Davif Rabkin, Farinon Director for current science and technology atthe museum, in a prepared writteh statement.
“No one has tested five differen small turbines in a rooftop Although there’s lots of interest in small-scale wind turbines, we found little data on their performance and impact. Despite a year of collecting data on the wind at the westill don’t reallyh know enough about the turbines to predict theie performance.” The lab came out of early effortsw to use wind to meet a portion of the museum’zs energy needs.
Studies showed the area’s wind resources were not stronvg enough to generate meaningful so the museum andthe ’s Renewable Energg Trust refocused the project to provides information to potential turbine owners on differencesz in design and function of various turbines.