So now it's data collection time.

Okay, we should start by collecting data on 2 spots on the hill, and we should look for average wind speed and max wind speed, and we should collect for 10 minutes.

We'll be down here.

And we'll be up there.

We're halfway to halfway.

Here we go.

(Vicki) No, we're not going all the way up there!

(Nikki) We're not?

Yeah we are.

(Vicki) This was quite a workout.

(Nikki) Oh yeah.

Okay, so what's our location on the hill?

The coordinates are north 44 degrees.

And 51.309 minutes.

The wind is coming from the East.

An anemometer is this handy little technological device in which we use to calculate the wind speed.

10 minutes starts now.

Go!

Okay, let's start.

All right, wind speed time...

Zero.

It's gonna be a long 10 minutes without any wind.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Come on, move, please!

Still no wind.

It's so hard to collect data on wind when there's no wind.

Pretty bad, but it was a great view at the top, so it just made up for it all.

At the bottom of the hill there's not a lot of wind, and if there is wind it comes in small little gusts at random moments, and you can't really track it.

I hope the wind farm works, I believe that it will.

It will stop at random moments, I bet, because of the wind and the gusts, but I'm pretty sure it will work.

We'll find a way to make it work.

It was really, really cool that Mallory wa Day 2 of data collection.

Look, it's windy.

Yeah, finally.

You ready?

10 minutes starts now.

Go!

All right, go.

Okay, we're looking at 5 miles per hour, 10 mph!

(Izzie) Yes, wind!

2.5.

Oop, now it's 6.

There it goes a little.

10.

There is no way we could power our wind farm with this inconsistent wind down here.

The wind is really gusty today, it's all over the place.

All right, let's raise it up to see what we get at a higher altitude.

That sounds good!

So we took the readings at 2 heights, one at 1.4 meters and another one at 2.4 meters.

10 minutes starts now.

Right now it's going at 10 mph.

(Aditi) 6.5.

(Vicki) 5.5.

(Aditi) All right, our reading is 3.5.

12.

12.

13, 15.

(Nikki) 15?

(Vicki) 15.

Today we found that the wind speed is a lot faster when you go higher up in the air because there's probably less turbulence, and there's nothing obstructing the wind.

(Hannah) With the tests, when we had it at the lower level, those speeds weren't consistent at all, but once we got higher, the speeds seem to go more consistent when we had a bigger wind speed.

So should this be the spot where we put the wind farm?

I think so.