{"id":2597,"date":"2006-06-04T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/awea06-by-the-river-or-in-it-nearly\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T21:48:28","slug":"awea06-by-the-river-or-in-it-nearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/awea06-by-the-river-or-in-it-nearly\/","title":{"rendered":"AWEA06: by the river (or in it, nearly)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re not getting the best weather for the conference, but I hear that the coincidentally-running Three Rivers Arts Festival has had rain 18 out of the 20 years it has run, so noone’s surprised.<\/p>\n

Conference hasn’t quite started yet, but the preliminary swag is quite promising; yoyos and balsa aircraft.<\/p>\n

I spent the day in workshop run by KidWind<\/a>, who have a school science kit for teaching the basics of wind turbine effectiveness. We got to build wind turbines, and test them. Here’s mine, big wean that I am:
\n\"stewart's<\/p>\n

I guess I got some losses near the hub there, but at least it worked. I was the only developer type there (there was a DoE person, and lots and lots of Pennsylvania teachers). I came away impressed, and hope I can work with Michael Arquin of KidWind to bring the project to Ontario. <\/em><\/p>\n

(This post has the worst GPS location ever; could only get a fix to within 100m, so that’s why the map location appears to be in the river.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re not getting the best weather for the conference, but I hear that the coincidentally-running Three Rivers Arts Festival has had rain 18 out of the 20 years it has run, so noone’s surprised. Conference hasn’t quite started yet, but the preliminary swag is quite promising; yoyos and balsa aircraft. I spent the day in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[1013,705,63,481,1066,454,33,147,593,690,786,505,161,1345,762,70,60,59,49],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-1013","tag-art","tag-awea","tag-cat","tag-eat","tag-gps","tag-map","tag-ontario","tag-pen","tag-pennsylvania","tag-ppe","tag-proj","tag-rain","tag-ren","tag-test","tag-turbine","tag-urbine","tag-wind","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-FT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}