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Requiem for a Solar Plant
The email landed like a brick through a plate glass window. "...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..." I stared at my laptop screen, the blue light illuminating the shadows under my eyes in my darkened California living room.
By keeping an extremely restricted dietI went on a very careful elimination diet, starting with potatoes and bone broth, and expanding to little else besides organic meat and dairy I was able to feel almost normal, able to focus for hours on end. Our team calls sometimes featured background noise from Buenos Aires cafés, the clatter of espresso cups and rapid-fire Spanish creating a surreal backdrop to discussions of Texas mineral rights and solar panel configurations. Donald Trump had won, and his administration was already announcing plans to impose massive tariffs on Chinese imports, including solar panels and battery cells.
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