I picked up The Backwoodsman’s off-grid issue expecting a useful discussion of how to keep the lights on when no utility comes to the rescue. The contents cover everything from building shelters and growing food to wells, wood heat, and composting toilets. That is a lot of territory for one publication. I understand the space constraints. The electrical backbone of the off-grid homestead got four pages of solar basics and another two on portable solar. If you’re curious about how sunlight...

Blue Spring, Missouri Not long ago, I hosted a friend from Massachusetts here at the river for a few days. He got a taste of Southern hospitality, and before long, I was headed to Missouri to experience a small part of the Ozarks. I drove up to Eminence to visit a friend I met here on the Little Red River last year. We exchanged numbers and stayed in touch. He invited me several times to come hunting or just hang out, but I finally took him up on the offer when he told me about an annual...

It didn't take long for AI slop to make its way into the solar industry. We've already seen AI-generated articles, sales emails, product reviews, and marketing content (cough Linkedin cough). Now we're starting to see AI-generated single-line diagrams show up in service tickets, permit packages, and design reviews. Recently, our service team received this diagram: AI generated single line diagram To be fair, it wasn't completely wrong. In fact, that's what makes it interesting. The danger...