KTAO Radio, Taos, New Mexico – Solar Powered Radio
http://www.ktao.com/home.php

KRCL Community Radio, Salt Lake City Utah - 50% Wind Powered Radio
http://www.krcl.org/
http://utahpower.net/Article/Article14573.html

KBSJ Boise State Radio, Jackpot, Nebraska – Wind Powered Transmitter
http://radio.boisestate.edu/KBSJtransmitters.html
http://radio.boisestate.edu

HCJB World Radio, Ecuador – Loretto Hydroelectric Project
http://www.hcjb.org/mass_media/loreto_hydro_project/overview.html
http://www.hcjb.org/

Information on Hydroelectric Power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_hydro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine

Malcolm Brown has gone on to spearhead the Hull Wind community wind project in Hull, Massachusetts.
http://www.hullwind.org

Malcolm Brown points to the dam that provides power for WJFF radio in Jeffersonville, N.Y. They generate enough electricity to power WJFF's studios -- which sit in a rustic chalet on the hillside overlooking Lake Jefferson.

Flinty broadcasters power up with water, wind

By Jim Krane / AP Technology Writer

   JEFFERSONVILLE, N.Y. -- In this era of cookie-cutter corporate radio, few stations stand out. Flip on your car radio and you'd have a tough time guessing whether you were in Alaska or Alabama.
   Even rarer than stations that decide what they'll play are ones that also generate the very electricity powering the broadcasts.
   At least two radio stations in North America display such flinty self-sufficiency.
   In Jeffersonville, a country town of 1,600 in the Catskill Mountains, a tumbling trout stream supplies the power for WJFF.  
   Malcolm Brown, a former philosophy professor who helped incubate the station, built a tiny power plant by knocking a three-foot hole in the side of a 21-foot-high dam on the creek. He piped water to a pair of turbines in the basement of his creekside house.
   "I'm more of a wind-power, waterpower guy than I am a radio guy," said Brown, 70, a wiry man with a fringe of white hair and beard. "The radio station, you might say, was an afterthought."
   The turbines supply enough juice to power the house, WJFF's studios -- which sit in a rustic chalet on the hillside overlooking Lake Jefferson. There's enough leftover electricity to sell to the local utility, said Brown, leaning on a broom in the cool shade of his cinderblock powerhouse.
   Even though Jeffersonville sits less than three hours' drive from New York City, none of the city's radio stations can be counted on to penetrate the Catskills' deep green valleys. Only a handful of local stations bother to broadcast to the region.
   But radio offerings in the Catskills must look like a Chinese restaurant menu to the 1,400 residents of the dusty casino town of Jackpot, Nev., which languishes in one of America's loneliest areas.
   Until March, radios were silent.
   "In this little old town? You're lucky to get static," said Jackpot resident Joe Creador, 36. "We don't get no news, no weather, no nothing."
   Now, three windmill generators loom above the barren 8,700-foot peak of Ellen D Mountain, 12 miles south of Jackpot.
   The region's relentless wind allows the generators to grind out 5,000 watts, powering the transmitter that beams all-news KBSJ to Jackpot and the 2,000 or so daily motorists who drive through the empty northeast Nevada scrublands, heading, perhaps, to Cactus Pete's casino or the Covered Wagon Motel.
   KBSJ's embrace of alternative power stemmed from cost considerations, not individualism.
   The wind-generating system, with its 13,000-pound storage battery and voltage inverter, cost less than $300,000 -- much cheaper than an eight-mile spur from the nearest utility lines, said Tom Lowther, the station's chief engineer.
   Jackpotters can now get storm alerts and emergency broadcasts via KBSJ, based in nearby Twin Falls, Idaho. The station is run by Boise State University and mostly offers programs from National Public Radio.
   "I was quite enthused about a radio station that you could actually hear," said Jackpot Town Clerk Dixie Choate. "We're beginning to join the 21st century."
   Jackpot sits on two-lane U.S. 93, which carries trucks ferrying nuclear waste to a nearby federal repository. Civil defense officials needed a local station to broadcast news in case of a spill or highway closure, according to Boise State University.
   An Internet search turned up no other references to water-powered radio and only a few, such as Utah's KRCL, partly powered by wind. In British Columbia, a broadcaster uses wind and solar energy to transmit underwater ocean sounds to boaters off Vancouver Island.
   Neither KBSJ nor WJFF runs on nature's energy alone. The two FM stations use backup power in August, when the Nevada winds die and the Catskill rains dwindle.
   In addition, KBSJ's Twin Falls studio runs on the electric utility grid, as does WJFF's transmitter, which pokes from a hilltop above Jeffersonville.
   WJFF began broadcasting in 1990, beaming National Public Radio news along with homespun shows like "Out, Loud and Queer" and "Ballads and Banjos" to the Catskills' vacation homes, dairy farms and working-class summer resorts.
   The station owes its existence to Brown's decade-long quest to go "off the grid." After researching the project since the 1970s, Brown spent $100,000 building the powerhouse, laying pipe from the dam, installing generators and a pair of water-powered turbines the size of dining-room tables.
   In 1986, with the power flowing, a friend visiting Brown complained he'd miss the next episode of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion because of the Catskills' dearth of radio stations.
   "Why don't you build one?" Brown quoted his friend as saying.
   So build one he did. After four years gathering signatures, raising money, filling out government grant forms and building a studio, the station hit the airwaves.
   Among North America's independent radio stations, WJFF's modest signal carries a disproportionately large presence. This month, the station hosted the yearly Grassroots Radio Conference, which brought 200 representatives from dozens of stations across the continent.
   WJFF's unique hydropowered independence lured the conference, Brown and others said.
   "Many community stations are talking about it," said Paul Mischo, a board member of KGNU in Boulder, Colo. "They're an example for us to start thinking longer and harder about getting off the grid, too."