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Solar
Last year we separated our coverage of solar energy standards from our standing electrotechnology colloquia we every Tuesday with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Join us today at 15:00 UTC with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. By design titles are unstable, time-sensitive and copyright protected. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Community Solar Garden
The Upper Midwest of the United States does not present itself as a sunshine-rich location. Lissa Pawlisch of the Clean Energy Resource Team explains how recent changes in state regulation permits solar energy to be sold directly to consumers rather than add electricity to the utility grid; thus avoiding some of the interactive distributed resource technical problems addressed in the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code.
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
This title sets the standard of care for construction, operation and maintenance of power and telecommunication infrastructure on the supply side of the point of common coupling. It is the first title to reach for when disasters happen; with most public utilities bound to its best practice assertions by statute. Proposals for changes to appear in 2028 Edition will be received until 15 May 2024.
Energy Standard for *Sites* and Buildings
To paraphrase Marc Andreessen: "Building standards are eating the world and ASHRAE is eating standards." Just when you thought ASHRAE's claim to energy regulation could not get any larger, it has recently appropriated everything *between* buildings in its scope. At least two energy/building enclosure related redlines are open for consultation through May 27th.
S. 4090 Enforcing the Rule of Law on Campus Act
Curated list of federal legislative actions affecting United States educational settlements.
Bucolia 300
(OED adj. pl.) "pastoral, relating to country life or the affairs and occupations of a shepherd," 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos "pastoral, rustic," from boukolos "cowherd, herdsman," from bous "cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow") + -kolos "tending," related to Latin colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell").
World Soil Museum
This collection showcases 1000 soil profiles from more than 85 countries. It features "soil monoliths" -- large, vertical sections of soil that have been carefully extracted from the ground and preserved for display. These monoliths provide a unique opportunity for visitors to see the complex layers and structures of soils from around the world, including everything from volcanic soils in Iceland to desert soils in Africa.