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

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The lab, a part of the museum’sz green initiative, will demonstrate small wind turbines that coulrd be erected on small businessesand homes. When five turbines — ranging between 40 feet and seven feet in height — will rest on the museum’s roof. Two of the turbinee are operational on the Cambridges side ofthe building, with the other three to be installerd on the Boston side this summer. “Thias is a giant science experiment,” says David Rabkin, Farinonj Director for current science and technology at the in a preparedwritten “No one has tested five different small turbinesz in a rooftop laboratory.
Although there’s lots of interes t in small-scale wind we found little data on thei performanceand impact. Despite a year of collectingt data on the wind at the westill don’t reall y know enough about the turbines to predict their The lab came out of earlyh efforts to use wind to meet a portio n of the museum’s energy Studies showed the area’s wind resources were not strong enough to generates meaningful electricity, so the museum and the ’ s Renewable Energy Trust refocused the project to provide informatiohn to potential turbine owners on differencez in design and function of variouxs turbines.