Here we are

Planted sunflowers today in one of the gardens and around the house. Built a couple planter boxes. I'm chomping at the bit to plant and lay out the plans for the year, but need to temper my enthusiasm by looking at the calendar and hold back. This incredibly nice, mild weather can change to freezing again (as it already has).

This election season is hearing a lot of rhetoric about building walls. I'm against walls for the reason they would be constructed, but see an opportunity. Why can't we build walls along both the Canadian and Mexican borders. The walls would be permeable, topped by solar panels in the south and some kind of wind generation in the north. How much power could that provide, making use of a narrow no-mans-land between nations to share power across borders? Even a fairly narrow ribbon would generate a sizable amount of power across thousands miles. Plus, the border would be its own distribution line, carrying power to both the northern and southern tiers of the country from relatively unpopulated areas in the center, to more populous one in the east and west. Similar to a pipeline, it would create jobs. Only these jobs would be generational as new clean technologies superseded old ones and were installed.