Wind power innovator, Mariah Power, and Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University are installing the first micro-wind farm at a U.S. university. The 25 turbine installation, which will be installed along the new York Hill Campus’s main walkway, will power about 50% of the campus’s exterior lights. The 35 to 45 foot Windspire vertical axis wind turbines will create a “wind terrace”, or “kinetic sculpture garden” that, when combined with a sweet view of Long Island Sound, will hopefully become student destination.
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2009, after waiting a year. I discovered my received unit to be unstable, it wobbled at the top in circle 2 feet in diameter in moderate wind speeds. OK at higher speeds. The wobble was so great at moderate speeds I feared it would tear apart the welds that anchor the base. So I removed the airfoils and am still awaiting (year and a half) for a promised replacement unit.
Some changes in fabrication are apparently underway. So I am waiting…. Hoping!