Heather Sauder
Remember that scene in the “Wizard of Oz” when the Scarecrow gets a brain, puts a finger to his chin, and says, “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side”?
After reading the wind energy paper two University of Wyoming graduate students wrote that will be modified into a UW Extension publication, one may hear Wyoming residents saying things like, “The speed of the wind at the height of the turbine is the measured wind
George Randoph
speed at 6 feet above ground times the height of the turbine divided by 6 feet.”
Heather Sauder and George Randolph, both in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, won the 2011 Energy Education for the People writing contest and received $1,000 for their entry “Is Wind Energy Right for Me?” The annual competition seeks entries about small renewable energy and energy efficiency applicable to Wyoming residents. It’s sponsored by the University of Wyoming Extension with support from the Wind Energy Research Center and the School of Energy Resources.