A technology almost as simple as a Yukon River fishwheel could one day power the laptop computers and microwave ovens of Alaska's river people. In Ruby it's beginning to do just that. Last summer, the ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tiny Native village in southwest Alaska has turned to an emerging technology to transform the power of a local river into a sustainable energy source that’s expected to free ...

In Yup'ik, the word "igiugig" means "like a throat that swallows water," so it's more than fitting that the village of the same name would be the test ground for one of Alaska's first river-powered ...

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