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December 19, 2008

Oregon pair try to build a better wind turbine

  • Their hope is to see the turbines installed on buildings up and down the coast, generating power locally.
    • By ALEXANDER RICH
    The (Coos Bay) World

    AP Photo/The World, Susan Chambers [enlarge]
    Randy Carlton, left, watches as Ric Morrisonn makes an adjustment on a mock-up of a wind turbine at Morrisonn’s shop in Coos Bay, Ore. Morrisonn is helping with the design of a newly patented kind of wind turbine that would allow buildings to generate their own power and even share it with neighbors.

    COOS BAY, Ore. — Mary Geddry was one of Ric Morrisonn's most loyal customers when he opened a restaurant in downtown Coos Bay in 2007. Geddry stopped in two or three times a week.


     
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