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Monthly Archives: January 2021

IF Power is Out on a Three Dog Night

The wife and I are living under the jurisdiction of a new Energy Domain: new to solar panels, new to heat pumps and new to Generac propane generators. We are not so new to power outages, and wondering about “best practices” if, say, the power is out extending into and lasting through at least one […]

Posted byfredJanuary 14, 2021January 17, 2021Posted inPhotoImage, seasons2 Comments on IF Power is Out on a Three Dog Night

Space is a Crowded Place

Space satellites may soon have to be capable of parallel parking if it gets any more crowded. And it definitely WILL!

Posted byfredJanuary 13, 2021Posted inscience, videoLeave a comment on Space is a Crowded Place

Digital Maps to Nature Literacy

TOOLS TO MEET OUR NEEDS We create tools to work for us: to dig foundations, to hoist steel girders for bridges, to record our words and thoughts for others or capture a likeness of another in a silver emulsion of an early photograph. Over the course of history, need drives those who make things to […]

Posted byfredJanuary 8, 2021Posted inculture, Nature Literacy, OutdoorsLeave a comment on Digital Maps to Nature Literacy

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