While individual excellence and personal greatness are worthy pursuits, it is far greater to be a member of a team, committed to something beyond ourselves. I'm creating an email newsletter for this blog.Written on top of our class crest is the motto of the Class of 2025: “Together We Thrive.” When our Class voted on a motto during Cadet Basic Training at the beginning of our time here at West Point, we were already making a statement that our lives are not about us. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.įor eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality.īefore that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer. I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. I write science fiction and fantasy stories. Tagged energy, solar farm, solar power, sunrise, sunset, winfield village | Leave a comment Post navigation Maybe I’ll even get in touch with the University and see if they can provide a link to a description! Possibly related posts (auto-generated): I’ll continue to watch, and try to characterize their behavior further. My current working theory is that the panels turn to face whatever direction produces the most power, regardless of where the sun is in the sky. Which kind of makes sense, as there were clouds to the west, so they clear sky straight up was probably as bright as the sun behind the cloudy sky. Last night, perhaps an hour before sunset, they were pointed about halfway between west and straight up. It is only after the sun is well up that the panels turn to face east. Here’s one piece of data: At dawn they do not turn to point east.

I initially assumed that they’d be programmed to point a particular direction based on ephemeris data about where the sun will be, but that seems not to be the case. The directions they point (and the timing of the changes) seem odd, and I’ve been trying to characterize the whole thing. I assume the people who built it knew what they were doing, but I’ve been puzzling over it for a couple of years.) (Oddly, they’re not arranged to point south.

There’s a solar farm just north of Winfield Village, with ranks of solar arrays that turn from pointing east to pointing straight up to pointing west.

West point flickr