Producing Your Own Power
May 25, 2008
By: 
rollerkaty
Category: 1974, Producing Your Own Power
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This weekend, I travelled to the other side of Washington state to visit my Aunt and Uncle. They live on a farm out in the country, and have three chickens, two dachshunds, and a lovely view of the rolling countryside. For a city girl like me accustomed to cars and noise, I always find a visit to their farm to be a relaxing and enjoyable experience. Plus they are wonderful people 
As I drove across the state, I noticed the addition of wind farms in especially windy areas along the I-90 corridor. With the price of gas at $4 per gallon, renewable energy has particularly been on my mind lately.
When I found a copy of Producing Your Own Power: How to Make Nature’s Energy Sources Work for You (1974) in the guest bedroom, I couldn’t help but pick it up and thumb through it. Edited by Carol Hupping Stoner, the book has chapters on wind power, water power, wood power, methane power, and solar power.
With the renewed focus on natural energy sources, scientists and businesses are scrambling to find new renewable sources of energy for our ever-increasing energy needs. But these ideas are not new ones. The technology has been around for years, as it is easy to see by perusing a book such as this one published in the mid-seventies.
I suppose it takes $4 per gallon gas prices to get folks to finally sit up get serious about finding alternative forms of energy.
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