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This solar-powered community radio station hasn’t used electricity in 6 years

Converting sunlight into music.
By Emmett Smith  on 
This solar-powered community radio station hasn’t used electricity in 6 years
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In Hot Springs, Arkansas, community radio station KUHS has been converting sunlight into music for the last six years. The station's solar panels help reduce the utility bills and allow the radio team a degree of freedom to decide what to broadcast. Now, they're helping other stations make the conversion to solar, too.


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