A white guy from Gujarat takes photos from a moving train :)

So many of my interests coming together in this: trains, mountains, setting sun, ...

An older guy standing near the door of the train coach that I was in kept looking at me, perhaps wondering why I was so keen on taking photos from the moving train.  Or, perhaps, he too was wondering whether I was a "white guy from Gujarat" :)

Environmental impacts ... birds and wind turbines

In my intro class, I routinely remind students that every economic activity has its own set of environmental impacts, and that there are no technical answers to those challenges--as in technical answers for zero impacts.  Which is why then we resolve those trade-offs in the political domain.  I am not sure whether all the students understand this, but I know that some really do.
The video here is an example of one such impact:

Now, compare this with the other kind of impact on birds--the BP gusher in the Gulf Of Mexico

Which trade-off do you prefer?  Quite a Morton's Fork, right?

Chart of the day: Wind energy