10th September, 2018.
Yes: my intro video, today, sees me confessing I almost mixed my days up.
Which is not something to confess to, if, like me, you write blogposts themed around what day it is.
It could have been worse, I could’ve opened like this …
Which could’ve been worse …
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As a quick thought … ?
I noticed this piece on the BBC’s new site, the other day.
It explains how researchers have found that using renewable energy sources — specifically, solar panels and wind farms — could alter the rainfall patterns in arid dry deserts like the Sahara: making them greener areas, that potentially could be used as valuable farmland.
Personally?
I’m no scientist, but think that could be a good thing: after all, with an increasing population, anything that lets us grow more food would be useful.
My first thought, though?
Dune fan that I am, I quietly thought the area, home of the tribal people that supposedly were the inspiration for the novel’s Fremen …
Would get dozens of them, running over a dune, yelling ‘Muad’Dib.’
What CAN I tell you?
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