Aaron Putnam

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First Solar opens a Louisiana factory that’s 11 Superdomes big First Solar opens a massive $1.1 billion solar factory in Louisiana, adding 3.5 GW of new US capacity and more than 800 well-paid jobs.

First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people electrek.co/2025/11/21/f... 🔌💡

Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface - Nature Communications Wildfire risk in California’s WUI is rising. Analysis of past events shows home hardening and defensible space can reduce structure loss by up to 52%, but coordinated, community-scale action is essent...

California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how:
Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...

Will this be flipped?

Yes. Superb.

Not sure… We didn’t even think them properly. We did add a lot of sand to the soil to help the carrots grow downward without issue.

The carrots keep pretty well. But we make carrot slaw, eat raw carrots, add them to chicken noodle soup, etc. we go through a lot of carrots :).

Perhaps depends on whether they consider the current occupant of the WH a ‘victim’.

At the advanced screening of The Running Man. Thanks @wkitfm.bsky.social and @stephenking.bsky.social
#BangorMaine #TheRunningMan

Very cool!

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!"

Lol

A fantastic Maine Calling on @mainepublic.org today with Simon Winchester talking about the history and the future of the wind! Highly recommend.

His latest book is “The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind”.

Southward shift of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current upstream of Drake Passage maintains a stable circumpolar transport - Nature Climate Change Climate change is altering the strength and position of Southern Ocean westerly winds but the ocean transport is stable. Here the authors use sea surface height to show that a poleward shift of the no...

🌊 Southward shift of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current upstream of Drake Passage maintains a stable circumpolar transport

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attention all Subantarctic Mode Water enthusiasts ☺️; check out this lovely new paper led by Zhi Li with Sjoerd Groeskamp, @alexhaumann.bsky.social Ivana Cerovečki and Lynne Talley; exploring propagating signals of SAMW anomalies tracing their origins to the tropics. doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

Very cool! I would also love one of these, if it is not too much trouble!

The credit for the ordering goes to my daughter. I was just piling them randomly after scrubbing and trimming the greens. She was unimpressed and sorted them by color. Good luck with your haul…

A thin, blue-white circle against the black of space.

This is one of my favourite space photos.

It's Pluto, backlit by the Sun, imaged by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

Look carefully and you can see the planet's irregular topography and the layering in its atmosphere.

Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI

Amazing.

A pile of carrots, trimmed, washed, sitting on a dish towel. Carrots are red, orange, yellow, dark purple, and light purple. Many shapes and sizes.

Harvested the carrots this morning.

Exciting! Lithops are such fascinating plants.

77 Million folks voted for this guy.

This is deeply embarrassing. I’m glad the forefathers aren’t around to witness this degradation.

lol

Activists thank BC Ferries for choosing electric and charting the course away from harmful LNG.

Very cool to see the ferries in my hometown of BC are going electric! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

It’s official - we’re in the Upside Down.

Ok. Kid’s finally in bed. Tuning in.

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.

This is great piece by Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) that summarizes five of the fundamental and accurate model-based climate predictions made by Suki Manabe and colleagues at GFDL over the past half century+. 🧪⚒️

theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...