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The lab, a part of the museum’s greenb initiative, will demonstrate small wind turbinesd that could be erected on small businessesand homes. When completed, five turbines — ranging between 40 feet and seven feet inheight — will rest on the museum’s Two of the turbines are operational on the Cambridgse side of the building, with the othefr three to be installed on the Bostomn side this summer. “This is a giant science says David Rabkin, Farinon Director for current science and technology at the in a preparedwritten statement. “No one has testeed five different small turbines in arooftop laboratory.
Althougg there’s lots of interest in small-scalw wind turbines, we found little data on their performancwand impact. Despite a year of collectinf data on the wind at the westill don’t really know enougyh about the turbines to predict their The lab came out of earl efforts to use wind to meet a portionb of the museum’s energy needs. Studies showed the area’x wind resources were not stront enough to generatemeaningful electricity, so the museum and the ’zs Renewable Energy Trust refocused the project to provide informationm to potential turbine owners on differences in desigh and function of various turbines.