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Museum of Science seeks to install wind turbines on its roof
By adamg on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 1:06pm
Seven altogether; goes before the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal on July 29 for a variance.
Via John Keith.
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New Exhibit?
Does that mean our admission to MOS would include going up on the roof to look at them close up? That would be cool.
Are they going to be the tall windmill-type or something else?
Cool!
The linked notice says there the museum wants three different kinds of turbines. Interesting.
I wish one would go up at Danehy Park in Cambridge. It's ALWAYS windy there. But I'm sure the neighbors would hate it.
Danehy Park
Great Idea! A nice tall wind turbine could only add to the Tellytubbyland ambience with the grasslands, rolling hill, rabbits in the fens, and all ...
I wonder how tall they will
I wonder how tall they will be.
We have three to compare it too in town already
Small: The Fake one on the expressway southbound at the IBEW building
Medium: The new one in Chelsea on the Mill Creek at the FOrbes Lofts complex
Large: Hull in the Harbor
Fake wind turbine?
Are you saying that the IBEW windmill doesn't do anything?
Hull now has two wind turbines, one at the water end of the peninsula and the other at the Hingham end.
Oops , The IBEW turbine is
Oops , The IBEW turbine is 100KW, I guess its enough to run their own building. Next time I will google fact check ahead of time.
As a comparison the Chelsea one runs over 600KW, Hull has a 600plus and a 1MW plus unit.
Fake turbine I-@93S
I believe the turbine on I-93S is fake. Sometimes that thing is rotating like crazy on a calm day and not moving on windy days. There's just something not right with it...
Training Turbine
Electrical workers need to know how to do electrical work. One expanding market for people who know how to do electrical work is wind turbines.
The IBEW put it into get electricity, yes, but they also put it in so they could muck around with it and teach their members how to service them, install them, repair them, etc.
Fake intelligence @ previous post
I toured the turbine at the IBEW training center when they were installing it about five years ago - I can attest that it's quite real.
As to the difference between what you percieve the wind to be (in your closed, quickly moving auto?) and what the turbine is doing...Winds at ground level and at 35 meters can be significantly different, especially along the shoreline. Perhaps as relevantly, the pedestal is fixed, so the turbine has a limited angle of attack. Iirc, it's sited so it works most efficiently when the winds are onshore from the southeast. With a healthy westerly or north wind, they might have to feather the vanes and lock the rotors to keep the mechanism from being damaged, Wind turbines aren't pinwheels - you can't blow them in either direction.