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Entrepreneur's vision is up in the air

Steve Kropper, founder of WindPole Ventures, wants to lease old towers and convert them to wind turbines. Steve Kropper, founder of WindPole Ventures, wants to lease old towers and convert them to wind turbines. (Lisa Poole for the Boston Globe)
By Erin Ailworth
Globe Staff / September 17, 2008

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The epiphany came to Steve Kropper as he spotted an old telephone microwave tower while driving along Bear Hill Road in Waltham this year. In the tower's place he saw a wind turbine, or two, or three. (Full article: 663 words)

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