Guest host John Rudolph talks with school principal and energy innovator Harold Overman about his school’s use of turbine power in Spirit Lake, Iowa. The school is saving twenty thousand dollars in electric bills this year that it will put towards other school projects, and plans are being drawn to use wind power in two more of the district’s schools.
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