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  • Solar Power update (part 8)

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    (continued from part 7) So here we are. February 2010. We had our solar array online for close to a year now.What are the first year impressions of our life with a 1.2kw solar array in our front yard? First, if you read the initial installment of my solar power posts you will notice that we built a post with a mount laid out to hold 12 panels. Because 200W panels aren’t cheap we only populated half of the array at first. These…

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  • Science for the non-scientist

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    I am a frustrated, castrated, suppressed mathematician, physicist, rocket engineer. I was born in 1960. Ok, Sputnik, was three years earlier. But when Apollo 8 traveled around the Moon in 1968, my granddad had already started giving me science books for birthdays and Christmas. The books about the U.S. space program were my favorites. From that time I have kept many notepads full of childish doodles of spaceships and astronauts. When, on July 20 1969, just three days before my ninth birthday, Neil…

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