🇨🇳 China just switched on the world's largest offshore solar farm 2.3 million solar panels. 2,934 steel platforms. 11,736 piles driven into the ocean floor. Built to survive force-11 gales and sea ice. It sits 5 miles off the coast and powers 2.67 million people. Oh, and they're also farming fish underneath it 😳

My fellow dudes on x, I need to ask you a favor. My wife has discovered a new hobby, landscaping. We've spent $2,000 on plants, dirt, bark over the last 2 weeks. I'm sunburned, and out of ibuprofen I need this post go viral so I can pay for all this. Why couldn't she have chosen sourdough bread? Or crochet? Or triathlons?

Part of real homesteading is working smarter. A movable chicken coop means no fixed run mess and natural pasture rotation built in. Roll it to fresh grass every few days and your birds get natural foraging while fertilizing the ground.

When the customer says make me fence that means we don’t have to sell up and move because of the neighbours…then the pressure is on! A willow hurdle I wove in situ makes a nice tight weave and did the trick🥳. Hazel and steel for the uprights and 1 year old willow for the weave.

My elderly neighbor was paying someone to cut his grass but did the math and figured out he could save money by getting a robotic mower. I watched it today & I have to admit it's pretty cool & does a great job. $2600 is what he paid for it. Technology😳

Even the price for buying rocks in America has skyrocketed These basic irregular rocks are priced at $175-$229+ per boulder In 2019, these same rocks would be priced at $20-$50. At name brand stores they’d go for around $80-$120 for the medium ones Overall rocks have increased in price about 40% just since 2019 We’re getting ripped off on literally everything in America…. And now rocks too?? Are we really going to accept paying hundreds of dollars for rocks that used to be $20 bucks….

@sovernTranch Farmers should graze the fields but let's learn for a decade. This quite possibly will not be viable long-term. Take advantage of it, but don't be cheerleading for centralized utilities taking over farmland. It's not all rainbows. No rotation. No interseeding. No integration.

HHS through @ASPRgov and @CDCgov is supporting @StateDept in the repatriation of 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by the Andes variant of hantavirus. All 17 are currently en route via @StateDept airlift to the United States, with two of the passengers travelling in the plane's biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution. One passenger currently has mild symptoms and another passenger tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus. As of now, the airlift will transport passengers to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska before taking the passenger with mild symptoms to a second RESPTC at its final destination. Upon arrival at each facility, each individual will undergo clinical assessment and receive appropriate care and support based on their condition.

@sovernTranch My favorite coincidence is once they started feeding cattle sodium bicarb to settle the grain acidosis in the rumen around 1980, then Tums because super popular. Tums had been around for 50 years but as soon as cattle when on bicarb the Tums market skyrocketed. Rockerfellerian.