THE Langdale Estate is adding to its award-winning sustainability credentials by generating sufficient electricity via a new water wheel to power its two electric Twizy cars which are hired out to guests. The estate recently partnered with the University of Cumbria to install the new water wheel. It is hoped that in the future the water wheel will create enough electricity to also power the estate’s biomass boiler.
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