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04-10-2017, 03:17 PM
A coal museum in Kentucky looks to an unlikely power source: solar energy
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The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. **w it's embracing solar energy.*
Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum (http://www.benhamky.org/Museum/). The decision to go solar is packed with symbolism, but mostly it just made financial sense, the museum's owners said.
SEE ALSO: Interior Dept. agency changes website from family visiting park to a giant pile of coal (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/interior-department-changes-webpage-coal-pile/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The solar panels could cut the museum's energy costs by between $8,000 and $10,000 a year, Brandon Robinson, a spokesman for Southeast Community and Technical College, which owns the museum, told reporters last week. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/09/kentucky-coal-museum-solar-power/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. **w it's embracing solar energy.*
Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum (http://www.benhamky.org/Museum/). The decision to go solar is packed with symbolism, but mostly it just made financial sense, the museum's owners said.
SEE ALSO: Interior Dept. agency changes website from family visiting park to a giant pile of coal (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/interior-department-changes-webpage-coal-pile/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The solar panels could cut the museum's energy costs by between $8,000 and $10,000 a year, Brandon Robinson, a spokesman for Southeast Community and Technical College, which owns the museum, told reporters last week. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/09/kentucky-coal-museum-solar-power/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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