Museum of Science to launch wind lab – Charlotte Business Journal:

The lab, a part of the museum’sx green initiative, will demonstrate small wind turbinex that could be erected on small businessesand homes. When five turbines — ranging betweehn 40 feet and seven feet inheight — will rest on the museum’s Two of the turbines are operational on the Cambridgw side of the building, with the other threde to be installed on the Boston side this summer. “Thisw is a giant science experiment,” says David Rabkin, Farinohn Director for current sciencre and technology atthe museum, in a prepared written statement. “No one has tested five different smalpl turbines in arooftop laboratory.
Although there’s lots of interestr in small-scale wind we found little data on their performance and Despite a year of collecting data on the wind at the westill don’t really know enough abouty the turbines to predict their The lab came out of early efforts to use wind to meet a portion of the museum’s energyg needs. Studies showed the area’s wind resources were not strong enouggh to generatemeaningful electricity, so the museunm and the ’s Renewable Energy Trusg refocused the project to provid information to potential turbine owners on differencez in design and function of variouws turbines.

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