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The lab, a part of the museum’s greenm initiative, will demonstrate small wind turbines that coulx be erected on small businesses and When completed, five turbines — ranging betweenj 40 feet and sevemn feet in height — will rest on the museum’s Two of the turbines are operationap on the Cambridge side of the building, with the othed three to be installed on the Bostonn side this summer. “This is a giant science experiment,” says David Farinon Director for current science and technology atthe museum, in a preparee written statement. “No one has testerd five different small turbineas in arooftop laboratory.
Although there’s lots of interesy in small-scale wind turbines, we found little data on theidr performanceand impact. Despite a year of collecting data on the wind at the westill don’t really know enougy about the turbines to predict theird performance.” The lab came out of earlty efforts to use wind to meet a portiojn of the museum’s energy needs. Studies showed the area’s wind resourcexs were not strong enoughy to generatemeaningful electricity, so the museu and the ’s Renewable Energy Trus refocused the project to provide information to potentiaol turbine owners on differences in design and function of various