Published

2 years ago

June 22, 2024

Alice Rush

Energy Support Services (ESS) has partnered with DSD Renewables to launch an agrivoltaics solution with DSD Renewables (DSD) for managing vegetation at a DSD solar energy site in Winchester, Va.

The rocky terrain where DSD’s 1.8 MW ground-mounted project is located made mowing under the arrays difficult. The company contracted with ESS for an alternative to maintain the 7-acre site at The Village at Orchard Ridge, a Lutheran retirement community. The solution was to contract Katahdin Acres, a member of the American Solar Grazing Association, and employ sheep and pigs to manage the vegetation by grazing.

“Agrivoltaics is a very cost efficient and innovative vegetation management strategy that allows solar to be installed in areas that might not have been considered otherwise,” says Conrad Gross, ESS’ general manager.

“By using the solar grazing association’s directory and partnering with a local business, Katahdin Acres, the Winchester community is effectively working together to successfully generate renewable energy where it would otherwise be impossible. We’re proud to have facilitated a solution that worked for both DSD and the retirement community to ensure the longevity and success of this solar array.”

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Assault Rifles in America

Published

7 hours ago

February 11, 2026

Alice Rush

The answer to the question becomes obvious when one considers what we’ve become as a country, which, in a couple of words, is hateful and ignorant.

How much intelligence do you expect from a population that re-elected a convicted felon who then immediately had 60+ other felony charges against himself dropped?

Assault Rifles in America

Renewable Energy

A Loss for Environmentalists, and Humanity as a Whole

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9 hours ago

February 11, 2026

Alice Rush

The guy who sent me this writes, “A Loss for the (Climate) Alarmists!”

A loss for climate alarmists? LOL. It’s a loss for all humanity.

But let’s be real. This is the only thing in which Trump succeeds: ruining good things for his own enrichment.

And that can mean a great numbers of things: the Kennedy Center, the city of Minneapolis, our scientific institutions, our greatest universities, our rejection of cruelty, our opposition to dictators, the future of Greenland, the lives of immigrants who have been living, working, and paying taxes here for decades, public education, protection from formerly wiped-out diseases, and America’s relationship with its allies — for starters.

It’s the only thing we do well as a nation now: destroying the best things that the U.S. has developed throughout the centuries, so that Trump can maintain power.

A Loss for Environmentalists, Yes — But More Importantly, for Humanity as a Whole

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Murders Committed by ICE Agents Are Acceptable, According to What We See Here

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13 hours ago

February 11, 2026

Alice Rush

The reader who sent me this writes:

Don’t worry conservatives outnumber commie libtards 20 to 1 and we support ice.

You seem to be comparing ordinary crime with routine extra-judicial killings by the U.S. government, and you appear to reject the idea of prosecuting coldblooded murderers if they’re employed by the Trump administration.

Btw, it’s not just “liberals” who want rule of law returned to the United States; it’s everyone but the most morally depraved.

Sorry. Not impressed with your thinking here.