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Turbines Could Generate Cash For Public Schools

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Bob Karrow
26 January 2004 - 2:00pm

Several school districts invest in a new approach to raising funds.

"Northfield school leaders want to harness the wind, so they're contemplating staking some $1.65 million in debt on a turbine that could generate enough energy to power about 600 homes, by far the largest wind project operated by a public school in the Midwest and maybe the country..."In Northfield, a district that educates the sons of grade-school educated farmers side by side with the daughters of professors at Carleton and St. Olaf colleges, the proposal seems to have generated strong — and rare — communitywide support..."

Full Story: Turbine could generate cash for school
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 25, 2004
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