I was listening to Listening to a podcast featuring Jack's Solar Garden. The idea is to install solar panels on farmland and then grow shade-tolerant crops below it, or let livestock range and benefit from the shade on hot days. This provides the farmer with multiple income streams: electricity sales and agricultural produce. Agroforestry ( Read more... )

The other day in the shower I was thinking about how most of our forms of energy are essentially either solar radiation (possibly assisted by gravity), tectonic forces, or stored results of these processes.

Solar energy comes from solar radiation, of course
Wind energy comes from solar radiation, causing motion of air (and helped by past tectonic ( Read more... )

(slightly different wording based on existing positions)

Senator Gardner,

Thank you for your recent op-ed in the Coloradoan arguing that science should be nonpartisan. Thanks also for your work to ensure that Colorado’s leading research institutions like NIST, NOAA, NCAR, and NREL receive sufficient funding to further understand our complex and ( Read more... )

The wrong words said with the right energy are better than the right words read stiffly from a page.