Sun Feb 14 18:04:19 EST 2021

Heard on the radio:frozen wind turbines
Not a failure mode I'd considered before.
I guess there's also going to be winter jobs sweeping snow off of solar panels. Maybe on building roofs. (Rooves?)

Saturday 22:58

Subsequent coverage has mentioned that windmills are winterized in regions that expect the cold; Texas didn't. ( ( Read more... )

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Mon Apr 2 13:58:46 EDT 2018 ( Read more... )

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Thu Mar 2 03:35:59 EST 2017

We've been having some rain. High winds. Thunderstorms in the forecasts.

I took the towpath to work this afternoon (quite late, since I left the office at 04:30). It had lots of puddles; I'd forgotten about the rain. In a nice surprise, the fences blocking Pennsylvania Ave between 17th and 15th Streets were gone. The ( Read more... )

Mon Feb 13 00:03:55 EST 2017 ( Read more... )

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Thu Jan 5 01:53:55 EST 2017

Some guy said "Nice tricycle" as I went by today. I didn't stop to engage him in conversation, but it just proved he knows nothing about recumbents in general or tricycles in particular. It was clearly meant to be an insult, since I wasn't on a tricycle to begin with. But nobody who has a clue about the many ways ( Read more... )

Wed Oct 19 12:52:37 EDT 2016

The 4th annual Boundary Stone Bike Ride is Saturday, and I'd thought about going, but with my work schedule shifted a bit later and my body clock running much later (typically getting to bed around 04:00), I don't think that I could get to Jones Point (southern corner of DC - in Alexandria, VA) by 09:00. (And I note ( Read more... )

Mon May 2 23:06:01 EDT 2016 ( Read more... )