UOG erects wind turbine in March
If you've driven by the University of Guam campus recently, you may have noticed a new feature at Dean's Circle.
By KUAM Newsby Krystal Paco
Guam - If you've driven by the University of Guam campus recently, you may have noticed a new feature at Dean's Circle. UOG director of integrated marketing communications Jonas Macapinlac says the college's first wind turbine has been up and running since March.
"It is a 65' tower and a one-kilowatt wind turbine and it's at Dean's Circle House 32, the Center for Island Sustainability Model Home, and within the next couple of weeks as we make sure all the settings are correct and the calibrations are correct then we're going to start collecting data" he said.
The turbine will be used to charge an electric car as well as pump water from water encatchments to the site's sustainable garden. Macapinlac adds that this turbine complies with requests from the Guam Land Use Commission as neighbors expressed concerns about a 100' tower's effects, including noise pollution and how it would fall in the event of a typhoon.