Tesla, Panasonic To Build Solar Panel Factory In New York -- December 27, 2016

Maybe more on this later. Global warmists predicted this:

Re-balancing oil supply in 2017: tea leaves suggest Saudi Arabia will have to do the heavy lifting. Everyone else is increasing production.

Trump making America great again: Tesla, Panasonic to begin solar panel production in Buffalo, New York. Data points:

• construction to begin this summer
• to reach capacity, 1 gigawatt, by 2019
• $256 million, Panasonic investment
• underscores the Tesla-Panasonic partnership: they are jointly building the $5 billion lithium-ion battery gigafactory in Nevada

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

	12/27/2016	12/27/2015	12/27/2014	12/27/2013	12/27/2012
Active Rigs	41	62	173	187	186

RBN Energy: Pipelines. Now its bats. Developers need federal regulatory approval quickly in order to move dead trees out of the path of the construction zone before bat nesting season begins. Any delay and construction could be delayed a full year. It's a natural gas pipeline, Rover Pipeline, to southern Michigan.

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The Literature Page

My focus this week: Henry Beston. See my first note on the subject posted yesterday.

I finished The Outermost House. I am now reading Daniel Payne's biography of Henry Beston, c. 2016, Orion on the Dunes, the first biography of Beston to ever be published.

Introduction: the biographer notes "The number of those who drove ambulances in Europe [during WWI] and subsequently became famous literary figures is astonishing. These literary volunteers included Louis Bromfield, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, and Archibald MacLeish, among many others ... [including Henry Sheahan who wrote The Outermost House under the name Henry Beston]."

Modern writers who were admirers of Henry Beston include Rachel Carson, Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Hay.

In 1960, Henry Beston became the third recipient of the Emerson-Thoreau Medal awarded by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences -- the first two writers to be so honored were Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot.

Beston's tour was officially before the great Battle of Verdun, but he elected to stay, saying he was unwilling to leave France during its moment of greatest need. He wrote his parents in half jest, he "was enduring the war for peace of mind."

The Great Battle of Verdun: after several weeks (compare with the length of the battle in Aleppo), the French army succeeded in holding Verdun but at a staggering cost: the French lost approximately 377,000 men in the battle; the Germans lost almost the same number.

That alone helps me understand Beston's outermost house.

the history of Braintree, p. xxx - xxxi

the north precinct of Braintree became Quincy (Beston's birthplace); Braintree was also the birthplace of John Hancock and John Adams (leaders in the American Revolution), p. xxxi

two leading families of Braintree joined: marriage of Abigail Smith to John Adams, 2nd president of the United States; their son, John Quincy (family name of Abigail) became the 6th president, p. xxxi

Quincy granite, p. xxxii

During the Irish potato famine, Maurice Sheahan, the paternal grandfather of Henry Beston, sailed in 1848 from Cobh, Ireland, bound for America and a new life.

Henry Beston, b. 1888, son of a physician, himself from Quincy, but trained in France (Henry's father); Henry's father married a French woman; Henry was fluent in both English and French; and that helps explain his writing style; brother George and Henry loved sailing off Quincy; brother George became a physician; trained at Harvard; 

Further notes will be elsewhere.

shallop, p. xxix
sculling, p. 9
catboat, p. 10; most likely the kind of sailboats on which Arianna and Olivia learned to sail, 2016; very interesting etymology for "catboat"