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Solar Technology Developers

East Side Glass

St. Cloud MN. East Side Glass Company announced today that they are now powering their business partially from solar energy produced by an array of solar electric panels on their roof at 305 Franklin Ave NE in St. Cloud. The solar panels cover about 4000 square feet of roof space and have a rated capacity…
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June 30, 2020 0

Excerpt from LID Annual Report 2019

(From LID Annual Report 2019) Our LID Board is active with surrounding agencies that meet, attend and support the goals and activities of the Crow Wing County Lakes and Rivers Alliance; Mncola, and the Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Association. Members attended various seminars on AIS sponsored by the DNR and the University of Minnesota. We…
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March 10, 2020 0

Winkelman Fishing Story About South Long Lake

(this picture of David Winkelman was in Canada 1979) David Winkelman says: “I fell in love with Lower South Long Lake while fishing with my brother Babe, catching some of the largest bass and walleye in our lives up to that point in the mid 1970s. One day we caught two “double-headers” of 10 pound…
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March 10, 2020 0

The Challenge

In the challenge to make solar energy more prevalent for all commercial + industrial businesses, the defining argument almost always comes down to cost. At the end of the day, which is the cheaper way to produce electricity: coal, natural gas, oil, biomass, nuclear, water, wind or solar, considering a 25 year life-cycle? In the…
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January 15, 2020 0