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Amish leading the way on embracing solar energy
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Contributor | Karma Policeman |
Last Edited | Karma Policeman Oct 05, 2008 02:51pm |
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News Date | Sunday, October 5, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | PHILADELPHIA -- On the porch of a white Lancaster County farmhouse set between corn and soy bean fields, an Amish woman makes applesauce the old-fashioned way: She crushes apples in a manual press. Chickens run across the yard. A long line of laundry dries in the sun.
But at her husband's dairy equipment shop next door, the scene is quite different. Energy-saving fluorescent bulbs light the basement. And wiring has just been installed to run heavy machinery off the sun. |
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