From the CBC: Wind from Highway 401 could help power campus.
Posted on August 7, 2005 02:22 PM. Filed under: environment.A college in Toronto is exploring the idea of harnessing the power of Canada's busiest highway to create electricity.
The wind-tunnel effect created by the hundreds of thousands of cars and trucks that travel Highway 401 each day makes Centennial College's Scarborough campus an ideal location for a small wind turbine to feed power back to the school. [continue]