I will offer free laboratory testing of water for any person who is arrested and charged by their local law enforcement officials for daring to post about how filthy their city water is. My team is reaching out to one such person in Texas right now, and offering free lab testing to help support her case, after she was arrested and charged with a felony for posting the truth about dirty water.
My lab has multiple mass-spec instruments and we are ISO-17025 accredited, recognized globally for analytical excellence.
From the web: "ISO/IEC 17025 focuses on technical competence, ensuring that laboratories produce valid, reliable, and scientifically sound test and calibration results. Compliance with this standard is widely recognized by regulatory authorities and suppliers as proof that a laboratory has the qualified personnel, validated methods, and calibrated equipment necessary for accurate measurements."
Activist: "You can graze sheep underneath solar panels. It's called agrivoltaics."
Farmer: "I've read the brochures."
Activist: "Best of both worlds."
Farmer: "The panels shade the sward. Productive species die back. What grows is what tolerates shade and compaction. Sheep won't finish on it."
Activist: "But the trials show it works."
Farmer: "The trials run three years and measure ewe presence. Not lamb growth rates. Not finishing weights. Not what the soil looks like in year fifteen."
Activist: "It's still better than nothing."
Farmer: "It's a 30% stocking rate, a steel frame I can't plough around, panel-cleaning chemicals running into the watercourse, and a 40-year lease I can't break."
Activist: "But you're getting energy AND lamb."
Farmer: "I'm getting a third of the lamb, a maintenance contract, and a field my grandson can't farm."
Activist: "You're being negative."
Farmer: "I'm watching a thousand-year-old way of feeding people get traded for twenty-five years of subsidised electricity. Negative would be the polite word."
HEADS UP: If you have a summer flight booked on Spirit Airlines, you need to start looking for a backup plan tonight.
โThe receipts just leaked, and it is bad. Spirit is reportedly days, if not hours, away from total liquidation.
โThe execs have been playing games in bankruptcy court twice in the last year, trying to cover up terrible management. Now, surging fuel costs are finally burying them.
โBut instead of pausing operations, they are still actively selling tickets to everyday families who have no idea the planes might be permanently grounded by the weekend.
โIf they close the doors, your ticket money gets locked up in bankruptcy court while the executives parachute out.
โThey are treating your vacation fund like a life raft. Don't let them take your money down with the ship.