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Rural Route 4 A Patch of Cool Air

There was a consumer poll released not too long ago that had the results from this question: “What are the greatest technological advances made in the 20th century?” Near the top of the list was electricity. TUA Solar Farm Facts I don’t think I would disagree. Especially in July. Phillip Burgess When it’s hotter than blue blazes. When you see a fire hydrant chasing a dog. The TUA Solar Farm began generating electricity in April As I write this it’s 87 degrees with a humidity level of 72 percent on the of 2019, producing enough en- Mississippi Gulf Coast. But it’s much cooler inside our house as the air ergy each month to power 27 conditioner churns out cool air that is distributed around the room by a average-sized homes. ceiling . What a blessing! How did we live on Rural Route 4 years ago without ? TUA continues to reduce its carbon footprint with this For my entire childhood we depended on a single window fan placed in clean, green energy. a window at one end of the house. Windows on the other end were opened and the fan was supposed to draw cooler air through the house. You can be a part of TUA’s But even running on its highest setting the fan failed to cool our house. Green Power Program. Each $4 block of Green Power you Evenings were especially brutal. Instead of counting sheep it was easier buy ensures 100 kWh of clean, to count beads of sweat. My brother and I shared a bedroom, the one renewable energy is added to farthest away from the window fan. your electricity mix. Unable to sleep, we could hear the humming of the fan down the hall. To participate, call 455-4515 The windows in our bedroom were always raised in the summer, and in or fill in and return the form addition to the humming fan we could hear frogs, crickets and an occa- below. sional cry of a whippoorwill. They also seemed to be complaining about the heat. Yes! I would like to contribute When the heat became unbearable, we would take our pillows and to Green Power each month. sheet and move to the “coolest” room in the house, usually the living Name: ______room, where we would make pallets on the floor. But sleep wouldn’t come. Address:______Looking back, I guess we didn’t know what we were missing by not ______having an air conditioner. Perhaps that’s the good thing about doing Phone: ______without, because if you haven’t had something then you don’t know Account #: ______what you’re missing. Number of blocks I want to purchase at Finally, the Burgess household got an air conditioner. The circumstanc- $4 each ______es around its purchase are worth sharing. (Continued on back) This can be cancelled at anytime.

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