On a Tiny Museum's Roof, Paris Tests the Limits of Urban Wind Power

The Maison de l'Air and its two wind turbines, in Paris. 

All photos: Alex Davies

Paris' Maison de l'Air is in the City's 20th arrondissement, on high ground, overlooking the Belleville Park and providing a great view of the whole city. But it's only by standing in the park and looking up at the Maison itself that you see the two rather unassuming wind turbines that adorn the buildings roof. They are the evidence of a year-long and ongoing study, which, those responsible hope, will indicate how to make the City's roofs into an army of wind power generators.

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