KBEAR: Billings' Greatest Hits » Power http://kbear.com Billings' Greatest Hits Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Power Restored After Major Outage [UPDATE] http://kbear.com/major-power-outage-in-billings-today/ http://kbear.com/major-power-outage-in-billings-today/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:27:30 +0000 Jami Bond http://kbear.com/?p=69001 UPDATE: The lights are back on for thousands of Billings residents.  Power was restored about 11:45 this morning after a widespread outage.  Approximately 11,000 Northwestern Energy customers across the Magic City were without power for about 45 minutes after the 8th Street substation went down.  Claudia Rapkoch of Northwestern Energy says the cause was a squirrel in the substation.

]]> http://kbear.com/major-power-outage-in-billings-today/feed/ 0 Lee J Haywood/Flickr Scientists Discover Possibility of Turning Urine Into Power Source http://kbear.com/scientists-urine-power-source/ http://kbear.com/scientists-urine-power-source/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:00:31 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=59395 Research done by scientists at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol has for the first time shown the possibility of producing electricity from human urine.

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