{"id":21042,"date":"2026-05-19T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21042"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:54:42","slug":"a-time-for-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21042","title":{"rendered":"A Time for Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" data-attachment-id=\"21043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=21043\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?fit=1000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496304868&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00079428117553614&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2168\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?fit=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21043\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7501860768095411;width:369px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?resize=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?resize=150%2C200&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cSolar cells are panes of glass that print wealth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Casey Handmer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solar cells cost about one percent of what they did 20 years ago which will result in an explosion of solar usage. This quote came from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationaloptimistsociety.com\/\">The Rational Optimist Newsletter.<\/a> It is worth a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo of if a blooming Yucca in the foothills of the Superstition Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apology for not posting yesterday. A Russian cyber attack is making it hard to use my blog. So far we have held them off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSolar cells are panes of glass that print wealth.\u201d Casey Handmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[41,1599],"class_list":["post-21042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-simon-says","tag-flowers","tag-solar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2168.jpg?fit=1000%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5to","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21044,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions\/21044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}