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John Upton

Grist: Turbine tourism: Bus tours of a wind-energy park are a big hit

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John Upton

Michigan now has nearly 900 wind turbines, and that lit a lightbulb in the entrepreneurial mind of retired teacher Gene Jorissen. Last summer, he started leading hour-long bus tours of the turbine-dotted Lakes Winds Energy Park in the western part of the state.