Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset 4:38 for 9h 13m 48s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 10.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Board meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1982, in the United States, AT&T agrees to the Breakup of the Bell System, divesting itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
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Joe Schulz reports Wisconsin’s largest solar park is now fully operational, featuring 830K panels (‘Badger Hollow project will provide enough energy to power 90K homes’):
The largest solar project in Wisconsin history is now fully operational in Iowa County, its developers announced Thursday.
The second phase of the Badger Hollow Solar Park began powering homes and businesses last month. The first phase came online in December 2021.
Badger Hollow is a partnership of We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service and Madison Gas and Electric. The utilities say the 830,000-panel site will generate 300 megawatts of electricity, enough energy to power roughly 90,000 homes.
Officials say the panels used also capture solar energy on both sides, which could prove useful in the winter when the sun reflects off snow and onto the panels.
Some years ago, a former city manager in this town insisted that a waste digester, with the importation of manure into Whitewater, would be the ‘greenest’ possible project. He was wrong. After multiple expensive studies found the proposal lacking, the city abandoned a project it should never have considered.
When that municipal manager left, he insisted that ten years hence he would be proved right. He will never be proved right, as wrong cannot be made right. Twice since FREE WHITEWATER began publishing in 2007 efforts for a digester have been turned back. Whitewater will never be a place for the importation of other communities’ animal and human waste.
Those looking at green projects will find them in other forms of energy production, including smaller solar projects for this city.
US firm launches moon lander to space: