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Aurora To Build Wind-Powered Traffic Lights

First Posted: 06/09/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:05 PM ET

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Aurora Beacon News:

In the coming weeks, Aurora will install two new traffic signals, at Frontenac Street and McCoy Drive, and Fifth Avenue and Waterford Drive on the East Side. The city will build two 48-foot wind turbines at the southeast corners of those intersections, and the resultant wind energy will power the traffic lights.

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ejhickey
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02:55 AM on 04/10/2010
I guess we can just "blow" right through these lights
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12:56 PM on 04/09/2010
Great.

More lights that won't work in the winter.
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