by Noah
I have a friend who lives in a nice town upstate where the entire school system receives its power from a very large field full of rows and rows of solar panels. The classrooms are well lit and the temperature is comfortable come rain or shine. I know that last part is hard for Republicans, from Trump on down, to understand, but hey, it's science! It works and it helps keep the town at least a little bit cleaner, at least until the daily trainload of tank cars full of Canadian/North Dakotan Bakken Shale crude oil derails. Shit happens, you know.
So yeah, humans being mentally challenged as they are, just prefer to think the inevitable can't happen anywhere upwind of their home sweet home but it does and then everyone acts all shocked and surprised. Whatever. I'm writing this for the first day of winter and I hope you're keeping warm and have enough light to read by. Maybe someday, the scumbag fossil fuel tyrants will be out of the way. Meanwhile, I wish I was allowed to show them the powers of the Sun. It'd be so easy. I could just tie them to a nice big flat piece of iron out in the backyard next July and let them feel the power potential of the Sun first hand. Every dog in the neighborhood would come leaping over the fence to check it out.