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Sunday, August 31st, 2008Northeastern Indiana’s large Amish community is starting to embrace wind and solar energy to power their homes’ lights, refrigerators and other equipment. Although many Amish rejected high-voltage electricity in the early 1920s because …
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Solar Power – Solar Powered Parking Meter -Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Sunday, August 31st, 2008A solar powered parking meter on Collier Street in downtown Barrie, Ontario.
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Indiana's Amish embracing wind, solar power
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Associated Press – August 30, 2008 5:24 PM ET GRABILL, Ind. (AP) – Northeastern Indiana’s large Amish community is starting to embrace wind and solar energy to power their homes’ lights,…
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Solar
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Of course the panels are not laid out on the ground, but are set angled at an elevation to gain maximum insolation but the area gives a reasonable illustration of what we can expect to do if we want to run electric trains on solar power …
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Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech (Politico via Yahoo! News)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008As a record 38 million tuned in to watch Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination on Friday and 85,000 more saw the speech live from Mile High Stadium, the nominee seemed determined to disprove Mario Cuomo’s adage that “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
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Elephant grass plantations could fuel Scotland’s cars (Sunday Herald)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008elephant grass across the Highlands could provide enough biofuel to drive every vehicle in Scotland and perhaps the whole of the UK, experts will tell a conference in Glasgow this week.
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Wind turbines generate bonus for homeowners (Times Online)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Homeowners who splash out on wind turbines and solar panels are being paid for the electricity they generate, even when they use it all themselves.
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