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Wind power helps LI entrepreneur go off the grid

The cluttered Westhampton workshop of Roy Rakobitsch is a temple to experiments past.

He pulls a broken propeller from a mass of mangled parts.

"There's a whole pile of Whispers right there," he says of a small-scale wind turbine model he used for some of his early trials. It had a habit of flying off its tower.

Rakobitsch calls himself an RE guy - for renewable energy. As a kid,...

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