Through grants to Caltech and Stanford, the Moore Foundation has been supporting a proof of concept for a vertical-axis wind turbine farm in the village of Igiugig, to address high energy costs as both a barrier to sustainable economic development and a driver of ecosystem degradation in rural Alaska. That project has recently garnered media attention -- read the full Alaska Dispatch News article here.
Excerpt: "...local residents have joined researchers from University of Alaska Anchorage, the California Institute of Technology and now Stanford University to whip up a lower-tech, highly reliable solution in the form of vertical axis wind turbines."
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