By Kenya Stump Renewable Energy In 1834, a Vermont blacksmith, Thomas Davenport built a prototype electric motor, which he used in a model car, paving the way for electric vehicles in America. Thomas Edison jumped in around 1889 with a nickel-alkaline battery powered vehicle and by 1900’s; the […]
By Kenya Stump Renewable Energy When you grow up living near two large power plants in Western Kentucky, it’s not hard to assume that those plants supply electricity to your home and community and without them the lights would go out. To some extent that is correct, but […]
By Kenya Stump Renewable Energy Most of us pay an electric bill every month to keep the lights on, appliances running and to heat and cool our homes. But are you really just buying electricity? And if not, what exactly are you paying for? In general, an electricity […]