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In an Age of Fossil Fuel, Returning to the Water for Electricity [1]

FOR most of its 271 years, an old lumber mill along the Rahway River in Cranford got its power from water spilling over the falls near its banks. The building is now used for office space, its old-fashioned waterwheel long ago displaced by electricity generated from a modern fossil fuel-burning plant.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2008
New York Times (New York) [2]
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Wheat [3], WTO [4], Fossil Fuels [5], Electricity [6], United States Of America (US) [7]
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