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Wind Farm in the North Sea

Tooling around at 16,000’ over the North Sea in a Voyager waiting for trade to show up gives you some time to look around. You might think that the North Sea is not going to have much for you to see and you would be mostly right. However, the refuelling track had us over a wind farm. These giant wind turbines sit out in the water generating power for the UK. There were some support vessels out there working on one of them, but the rest were just sitting their spinning away. With no other elements in sight to provide context, they looked rather strange.

Lost Lake PassivHaus

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On one of our hikes while in Whistler, we came across the Lost Lake PassivHaus. This building was the home of the Austrian Olympic Team during the Winter Games. After the games were over, it was converted for new uses. The interesting thing about the house is that it is designed to have minimal requirements for energy with no heating and cooling. It is aimed at using 90% less energy than a normal building courtesy of building techniques and materials. It sits at the entry to some trails so a lot of people get to see it. I am curious as to how many people stop to read its details.