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The lab, a part of the museum’s green will demonstrate small wind turbines that coulds be erected on small businesses and When completed, five turbines — ranging betweehn 40 feet and seven feet in height will rest on the museum’s roof. Two of the turbined are operational on the Cambridge side of the with the other three to be installed on the Boston sidethis “This is a giant science experiment,” says David Rabkin, Farino Director for current science and technologyg at the museum, in a prepared written “No one has tested five different small turbines in a rooftopo laboratory.
Although there’s lots of interes in small-scale wind turbines, we found littlr data on their performanceand impact. Despite a year of collectinhg data on the wind atthe Museum, we stillo don’t really know enough abouft the turbines to predict their The lab came out of earlyg efforts to use wind to meet a portionh of the museum’s energy needs. Studies showe d the area’s wind resources were not strong enough to generatemeaningful electricity, so the museumj and the ’s Renewable Energy Trusrt refocused the project to provide information to potentiao turbine owners on differences in designj and function of various turbines.