Island wind power project nears completion: Manor's windmill has all four wings attached
Working on Sylvester Manor’s windmill, as four sails are installed on the 19th century mill, one of the iconic sites of Shelter Island. (Credit: Adam Bundy) The 19th-century windmill at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is now at full sail — all four of the wings of the Island’s most readily identifiable links to its agricultural past were installed this week. Last year, a group of students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts focused their research on designing a modern wind energy system to augment the windmill’s future energy production...
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