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The grandfather of the wind turbine is the windmill. According to the American Wind Power Center and Museum in Lubbock, Texas, “The windmill gave railroads access to underground water, permitted ranchers to fence and selectively breed cattle and farmers to live on land where there were no rivers, streams, or lakes.”

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Cheap electricity brought the demise of the windmill. As electricity rate caps come off, however, many of us are looking to the past for modern solutions to steadily rising energy costs. Residential wind turbines are a pint-sized version of their sky-scraper sized predecessors and they are relatively inexpensive to install. To learn more, read FAQs About Wind Power

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Bob Dylan may have said it best, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.”

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