Light Breeze
Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)
I bet you didn't know solar panels are just LEDs -- as they are both diodes. And you can actually drive an ordinary diode with light, it's uncovered. It's a similar principal that all microphones are speakers, and vice versa.
Big Lies – The Sun Magazine
Plastic Bags
Today catching the bus home, out in front of the Alfred E Smith Building, I saw yet another plastic shopping bag flapping around the trees. In the morning, I pulled one from the woods. As convenient as disposable plastic shopping bags are, they really have become a menace when they end up in the woods as litter.
Here’s a Tour of an $80,000 Ford F-250 Platinum Pickup Truck
A Guide for the Perplexed – Lawfare
August 27, 2019 – Next Sixteen Weeks
Believe it or not, 16 weeks from now, we will be close to Christmas once again. As we head through the autumn months, the temperature will steadily decline, and sunsets will be earlier. Hunting seasons get underway, fall foliage will start to turn in the Adirondacks in a few weeks, then Thanksgiving and Christmas. The seasons are a changing.
| Week | Date | Dawn | Sun- rise |
Sun- set |
Dusk | Day | Avg High | Avg Low | Record Hi | Record Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Aug 27 | 5:45 am | 6:15 am | 7:37 pm | 8:06 pm | 13:22 | 79 | 58 | 97 (1948) | 41 (1969) |
| 1 | Sep 3 | 5:53 am | 6:22 am | 7:25 pm | 7:54 pm | 13:03 | 77 | 56 | 100 (1953) | 39 (1976) |
| 2 | Sep 10 | 6:01 am | 6:30 am | 7:13 pm | 7:41 pm | 12:43 | 75 | 54 | 96 (1931) | 34 (1978) |
| 3 | Sep 17 | 6:09 am | 6:37 am | 7:01 pm | 7:29 pm | 12:23 | 72 | 51 | 89 (1942) | 32 (1959) |
| 4 | Sep 24 | 6:17 am | 6:45 am | 6:48 pm | 7:16 pm | 12:03 | 69 | 48 | 90 (2017) | 27 (1963) |
| 5 | Oct 1 | 6:24 am | 6:52 am | 6:36 pm | 7:04 pm | 11:43 | 66 | 45 | 90 (1927) | 28 (1993) |
| 6 | Oct 8 | 6:32 am | 7:00 am | 6:24 pm | 6:52 pm | 11:23 | 63 | 42 | 80 (2017) | 21 (1964) |
| 7 | Oct 15 | 6:40 am | 7:08 am | 6:12 pm | 6:40 pm | 11:03 | 60 | 40 | 86 (1897) | 27 (1978) |
| 8 | Oct 22 | 6:48 am | 7:17 am | 6:01 pm | 6:30 pm | 10:44 | 57 | 38 | 86 (1979) | 20 (1959) |
| 9 | Oct 29 | 6:56 am | 7:25 am | 5:51 pm | 6:20 pm | 10:25 | 55 | 36 | 77 (1946) | 19 (1969) |
| 10 | Nov 5 | 6:05 am | 6:34 am | 4:42 pm | 5:12 pm | 10:07 | 52 | 34 | 75 (1994) | 17 (1951) |
| 11 | Nov 12 | 6:13 am | 6:43 am | 4:34 pm | 5:05 pm | 9:51 | 49 | 33 | 68 (1909) | 15 (1976) |
| 12 | Nov 19 | 6:21 am | 6:52 am | 4:28 pm | 4:59 pm | 9:36 | 47 | 31 | 71 (1921) | 12 (1972) |
| 13 | Nov 26 | 6:29 am | 7:00 am | 4:24 pm | 4:55 pm | 9:23 | 44 | 29 | 67 (1979) | -11 (1938) |
| 14 | Dec 3 | 6:36 am | 7:08 am | 4:22 pm | 4:53 pm | 9:13 | 41 | 26 | 63 (2009) | -1 (1976) |
| 15 | Dec 10 | 6:42 am | 7:14 am | 4:21 pm | 4:53 pm | 9:06 | 38 | 23 | 64 (1966) | -4 (1902) |
| 16 | Dec 17 | 6:47 am | 7:19 am | 4:23 pm | 4:55 pm | 9:03 | 35 | 21 | 59 (1984) | -8 (1942) |
