star power.

As a former employee of the energy utilization industry and avid admirer of all things energy, electrical power from the sun has always captured my imagination. Although sometime society is a little slow in realizing the obvious, every day around the world we are utilizing our great expanse of nature to create more energy.  In this case, my current home, a little retreat-property in the middle of no where (or center of everywhere, as I see it) has teamed up with local entities to build a photovoltaic solar array capture a staggering +50kW of sunny sunshine to power around 1/3rd of the entire property’s energy needs.

I work under this apparatus on Thursdays. I sometimes stop and listen to the light hum of all that power going through the 7 inverter boxes, all against the backdrop of the daytime murmur of the jungle. 

My nerdy self smiles at the fact that this message is brought to you by the sun’s wavelengths, making their way across 8 light minutes of space and time, only to be whittled away by man’s transistors, invertors and wires to this little machine.

Good to know that even the abstract machines are star powered.