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And how to reduce your outdoor light pollution.
Dear Reader,
We’ve made it to another Feel-Good Friday, Dot’s favorite day. Let’s start by celebrating the first European stadium to install rainbow colored photovoltaic panels in a lovely display of not just sustainability but inclusivity. “We deliberately prioritised symbolic power and inclusivity over maximum output,” said a spokesperson for the German football club, “and thanks to innovative technology, the efficiency remains impressively high.”
But solar panels aren’t just harnessing the sun to shine the light on LGBTQ+ rights, they’re being tested to track asteroids. At night. When the sun isn’t shining and, Dot surmises, they’ve got nothing else to do.
John Sandusky, the scientist behind this innovation, describes it in, not surprisingly, highly technical terms, but it basically amounts to this: Even at night, solar panels detect light from the sky, including from stars, which keep a steady rhythm, but also from potentially dangerous asteroids, which would “sound” different. “It’s like listening to wind chimes instead of the wind itself,” he explains, which sounds lovely and kinda, sorta helps Dot understand the principle at work. He admits that having a global system to detect asteroids is a bit of a long shot and would require significant funding but, like so many dreamers, John Sandusky is shooting for the stars … errr, asteroids.
Starrily,
Dot
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