― alix (alix), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)
a pair of those big, rubber waders could only help.
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― alix (alix), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― alix (alix), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)
waders, though.
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)
Awesome posters from 1937 promoting "electrification." The Wash Day one is my favorite.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)
http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/oct08/lakecarp5_100508_big.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)
Okay, gonna use this thread for something maybe more counterintuitive but... (free gift link)
A new state-funded project in the San Joaquin Valley hopes to find a new way to build drought resilience. The idea is simple: Cover the state’s canals and aqueducts with solar panels to both limit evaporation and generate renewable energy.“If you drive up and down the state, you see a lot of open canals. And after year after year of drought it seemed an obvious question: How much are we losing to evaporation?” said Jordan Harris, co-founder and chief executive of Solar AquaGrid, a company based in the Bay Area that’s designing and overseeing the initiative. “It’s just common sense in our eyes.”The California Department of Water Resources is providing $20 million to test the concept in Stanislaus County and to help determine where else along the state’s 4,000 miles of canals — one of the largest water conveyance systems in the world — it would make the most sense to install solar panels. The project is a collaboration between the state, Solar AquaGrid, the Turlock Irrigation District and researchers with the University of California, Merced, who will track and analyze the findings.“This hasn’t been tried in the U.S. before,” said Roger Bales, an engineering professor at U.C. Merced who specializes in water and climate research. “We want these to eventually be scaled across the western U.S., where we have a lot of irrigated agriculture and open canals.”
“If you drive up and down the state, you see a lot of open canals. And after year after year of drought it seemed an obvious question: How much are we losing to evaporation?” said Jordan Harris, co-founder and chief executive of Solar AquaGrid, a company based in the Bay Area that’s designing and overseeing the initiative. “It’s just common sense in our eyes.”
The California Department of Water Resources is providing $20 million to test the concept in Stanislaus County and to help determine where else along the state’s 4,000 miles of canals — one of the largest water conveyance systems in the world — it would make the most sense to install solar panels. The project is a collaboration between the state, Solar AquaGrid, the Turlock Irrigation District and researchers with the University of California, Merced, who will track and analyze the findings.
“This hasn’t been tried in the U.S. before,” said Roger Bales, an engineering professor at U.C. Merced who specializes in water and climate research. “We want these to eventually be scaled across the western U.S., where we have a lot of irrigated agriculture and open canals.”
Home page for the project is here:
https://www.tid.org/about-tid/current-projects/project-nexus/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 April 2023 17:29 (two years ago)