Solar generation Nov 2010

I forgot to post this at the beginning of December so here it is. I generated 700kwh of electricity and I used a total of 0 according to Xcel.

The weird thing is that the last two months the meter for my electricity has slowly but surely gone up. On warm days when it's sunny I make some headway on lowering the number on the meter, but most days I use a bit more than I generate. So I guess the number that Xcel sends me is the total, as in I've generated more electricity total than I've used total this year. That would certainly be true. I really wish I had a better meter so I could keep track of that stuff better. There is some more data in the bill, so maybe I'll go through and compile that and see if it helps at some point.

Solar powered hornets!

Oriental Hornets harness solar energy through an entirely biological process. Maybe this will be a breakthrough that leads to our having more efficient solar energy collectors.

Or maybe it'll mean that the generation of robots that eventually destroys the human race will be solar powered.