Kentucky coal museum switching to solar power

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You wouldn't expect a museum dedicated to the coal industry to run on anything other than coal -- but a mining museum in Kentucky is soon to be solar powered.

The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, is switching to solar power to save money. The museum, which memorializes Kentucky's history in coal mining, is modernizing with a new form of cheaper energy.

Communications director Brandon Robinson told CNN affiliate WYMT that the project "will help save at least eight to ten thousand dollars, off the energy costs on this building alone."

Robinson also said that the project was funded through an outside foundation, WYMT reported. The project includes 20 solar panels installed by Bluegrass Solar.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/us/coal-museum-goes-solar-trnd/

[DFW]

1. This deserves a front page headline in the New York Times

So fitting, too, that it's a MUSEUM. A reminder and memorial of days PAST. The past is the story the museum tells. How it powers the telling--that is the future. Shout it from the highest rooftops in Frankfort and Lexington (and in Mitch McTurtle's and Rand Paul's ears, while you're at it).

[cornball 24]

2. In the words of the immortal Ralph Kramden aka Jackie Gleason HARDY HAR HAR!

[Lucinda]

3. Whaddaya know...