Today marks the the celebration of a big source of renewable energy - Wind. As you can see by the accompanying chart, wind turbines are sprouting up at a good clip out here on the Great Plains.
My daughter and her family just returned from a vacation in Palm Springs, CA two days ago and were amazed when they saw this huge wind farm on I-10 near there
The main issue of course, is how to store this energy when the wind is not blowing. This is being addressed in many ingenious ways
Today, Craig Stowe has blown up a challenging puzzle to solve. Let's see "watt" he has done:
Across:
1. Word with H or I: BEAM.
5. Key of Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No. 3: E MAJ - Gee, I'd love to hear some of that
9. Wont: HABIT - It is my wont to blog every Saturday
14. Old: OUT OF DATE.
17. U.S. gross national debt units since 1981: TRILLIONS - and the beat goes on...
56. Disproportion: IMBALANCE - Speaking of which
18. Fictional musket wielder: ATHOS - He was one of The, uh, Three Musketeers
19. Ready for action: HOT TO TROT
20. Medieval feudal lord: THANE - Macbeth as the Thane of Glamis
21. Prepare quickly, with "up": WHIP.
22. Shudder: QUIVER - The master
23. Some partygoers: STAGS.
27. Aristotle in the 20th century: ONASSIS - Mr. Jackie O
29. River in Tuscany: ARNO - The ARNO 15. Runs: FLOWS out of the Apennines, goes through Florence and empties into the Ligurian Sea at Pisa. There are no boat rides on the ARNO as much of it is not navigable
30. "Middlemarch" author: ELIOT - An 1871 novel of provincial English life by George ELIOT (Mary Anne Evans)
32. Low digits: TOES.
34. YMCA leader and Peace Prize co-Nobelist John: MOTT - His Bio.
35. Coup group: JUNTA.
36. Normandy department: ORNE - France's NW Region of Normandy is divided into five Administrative Departments seen below. The beaches of Calvados were much celebrated nine days ago.
38. Glyceride, for one: ESTER - Here ya go!
39. Tabula __: RASA - Latin for Tablet Erased
40. Japanese electronics giant: HITACHI.
42. "Black Velvet" singer Alannah: MYLES - Some nice Saturday listening/viewing
43. Sovereign: DYNAST - Yes, I suppose a DYNAST would have a dynasty
44. Early one-named Velvet Underground vocalist: NICO - 60's vintage
47. Great service providers: ACERS - They can make for tennis matches played with few strokes
48. Looked raptly: STARGAZED - Mine would be more directed at the heavens than anything terrestrial
53. Photo finish: MATTE.
54. It may be a stretch: LIMOUSINE - At Disney Studios, Rock 'n Roller Coaster is a ride in a "stretch LIMOUSINE" at 57mph into a black light adventure with Aerosmith blasting in your ears! I'd allow "awesome" as a description!
55. Colorado's __ Park: ESTES.
57. Origins: SEEDS - 800 miles south of the North Pole lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that stores nearly a million seeds from around the world
58. Nudnik: PEST.
59. Hit, as with snowballs: PELT.
Down:
1. Choice when you can't decide?: BOTH - An old commercial about this dilemma
2. Prefix with vision: EURO - Need more info?
3. Working: AT IT.
4. Shed: MOLT.
5. Bunker on Hauser Street: EDITH - Jeanne Stapleton won an Emmy for her wonderful portrayal
6. "The Piano" extra: MAORI - In this movie the MAORI unload Ada's piano on the beach in western New Zealand
7. Never: AT NO POINT IN TIME.
8. Kid: JEST.
9. Break: HIATUS - Kids and teachers are on one now
10. Subject including the Renaissance: ART HISTORY.
11. Type of economics: BEHAVIORAL - Five interesting examples
12. From that perspective: IN ONE SENSE.
13. Cop show shocker: TASER.
22. Doha's country: QATAR - Doha is a 2-hr flight from Baghdad
23. Word of equality: SAME.
24. Cup holder: TROPHY CASE.
25. Name wrongly associated with cake: ANTOINETTE - Most feel Marie never said "Qu’ils mangent de la brioche" (Let them eat cake) in response to hearing the peasants had no bread. However it became a rallying cry for French revolutionaries
26. Took the first step: GOT STARTED - Debate continues on how attribution to Marie Antoinette of "Qu’ils mangent de la brioche" GOT STARTED
28. One on a staff: NOTE - This NOTE is the top of my range
31. Green: LUSH - Redux from last Saturday
33. Tranquility and Serenity: SEAS - A lunar reconnaissance orbiter caught site of the Apollo 11 landing site in the SEA of Tranquility 45 years later. (Yeah, we really went!)
41. Rate: ASSESS.
42. Big kahuna: MOGUL
45. Feet in a meter?: IAMBS - Ba BUM, Ba BUM, Ba BUM, Ba BUM, Ba BUM (each "ba BUM" is an IAMB and of course there are five in this smart aleck's answers)
46. Balkan native: CROAT.
48. Err: SLIP.
49. Pronto: ASAP - Add Stat in a hospital
50. E-__: ZINE - Not an online magazine but just for fun- What time is it in EZINE, Çanakkale, Turkey right now?
51. Letter-bottom abbr.: ENCL - The ENCL can be a S.A.S.E. for an R.S.V.P.
52. Bugs' bane: DEET - The EPA now says DEET is safe when used as directed but this product advertises it is DEET FREE
Now the person in this house could comment on his computer that is powered by WIND and solar energy!
