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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(opens in a new tab) 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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