The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry—and now it's embracing solar energy.
Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum. Built in 1994, the museum is filled with relics from Kentucky's coal mining past, including early mining tools, photographs, and a two-ton block of coal. Country music legend Loretta Lynn, who sang "Coal Miner's Daughter," has housed part of her personal collection on the museum's third floor.
The decision to go solar is packed with symbolism, but mostly it just made financial sense, the museum's owners said. Read more...
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