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2010/12/22-Cleveland's Urban Wind Turbine
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Issue date: 12/22/2010
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Cleveland's Urban Wind Turbine Page 1 of 2 by Paul Gipe Home Books Articles Workshops Photos Biography Books Cleveland's Urban Wind Turbine Wind Power September 5, 2007 Wind Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center installed a 225 kW Vestas V27 wind Energy turbine in 2006 on the city's harbor front between the Cleveland Brown's Wind football stadium and the science museum. The V27 is no longer manufactured Basics and this unit was bought used and then reconditioned. The Science Center has Wind in done an excellent job of installing the turbine to maximize its aesthetic View appearance and the unit provides a dramatic visual attraction on the city's Articles harbor front skyline. (Cleveland fronts onto the south shore of Lake Erie.)

Large Wind Cleveland's urban wind turbine joins a limited number of such wind turbines in Small Wind the Anglophone world: Wellington New Zealand's V27 overlooking Co-op Wellington Harbor, Toronto's WindShare turbine on Lake Ontario, and the Wind Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' Fuhrlnder turbine in Boston. These are all Feed Laws real urban wind turbines--and they work.

Solar Much talk surrounding "urban wind" deals with small, rooftop wind turbines.

Energy These urban turbines seldom perform as advertised.

Other Of course, there are many real urban wind turbines in Europe, delivering real En français power.

Wulf Field Workshops Photos Biography Contact Links Vestas V27 at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Vestas V27 at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center. Cleveland Brown's football stadium in the Center.

background.

Vestas V27 at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center memorial Center. Repeating architectural element using the plaque celebrating "Wind Works", the architectural http://www.wind-works.org/articles/ClevelandsUrbanWindTurbine.html 12/22/2010

Cleveland's Urban Wind Turbine Page 2 of 2 wind turbine's shadow. At the solstice the turbine's use of the wind turbine.

shadow meets the concrete "shadow" on the lawn.

-End-back to Archive of Articles Home Books Articles Workshops Photos Biography Top Copyright © 2003 by Paul Gipe. All rights reserved.

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