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Wind Turbine Open House
To generate interest in the newly installed wind turbine on the east side of campus, Rensselaer conservation coordinator Shawn Shaw and Jim Adams ’02 hosted an open house Dec. 9. The event took place at the Wind Energy Facility on Sunset Terrace, near the site of the turbine. Power from the 10-kilowatt, three-blade wind turbine is transmitted to the campus power grid. The wind turbine is the product of a student research project that began two years ago when Adams started collecting wind data from around campus for his senior thesis. Adams graduated in 2002 and now works for AWS Scientific, an Albany-based energy consulting firm.
Photos by Trish Galvin
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