The Newark Center for Creative Learning (which I can’t say enough good about) held their Kid’s Greenfest yesterday. The weather was great but I got sunburnt standing by a large portable solar array chatting with local solar geeks CMI Electric about electric tractors, grid-tie inverters and the voltage and current profiles of thin-film .vs. polycrystalline PV panels. Heather persuaded Senator Chris Coons to make me a fruit smoothie with the NCCL fender-blender (bike provided by the Newark Bike Project). She said he was a good sport about it, and I said I was pleased to see him actually working for somebody who voted for him – instead of greedy media conglomerates.
Several local organic farmers showed up, including a CSA, and I bought a dozen Americana and Buff Orpington eggs… they’re brown and pale green.