With all the hot air that emanates from the typical user of cellular telephones, we were impressed with the ecologically neat and friendly idea of a wind-powered cellular telephone, but it turns out that blower in question is a different kind of blower altogether: it’s a payphone from GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd that taps into the Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd network and has its own personal windmill generator; it has been installed on three-month trial by British Rail Telecommunications Ltd at an unmanned level crossing at Stokesay Farm near Craven Arms in Shropshire; the farm apparently has no mains electricity, and no, the farmer isn’t required to climb the pole and make with the lungs on a calm day – the wind power is stored in a battery.
