Turbines Could Generate Cash For Public Schools
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..."
Thanks to Bob Karrow
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Published on Sunday, January 25, 2004 in
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