{"id":756,"date":"2013-12-17T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T04:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:10","slug":"solar-powered-saffron-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/solar-powered-saffron-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Powered Saffron Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>[This is a back-issue of one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this site&#8217;s newsletters<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We got solar panels installed about 6 months ago. I did the math, and figured they&#8217;d pay themselves off within 5-6 years. Your results may vary.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been tracking very carefully how much they generate. Watching the numbers tick over produces some strange ideas in me sometimes. For example, I started wondering &#8211; if all the energy from the panels were converted into saffron, how much saffron rice could I make?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/solar-powered-saffron\/\">The answer is on my blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you still have time to make some hand-made Christmas decorations, check out this amazing softwar: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornamania.com\/\">Ornamania<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t want to download the software, there are patterns you can download and print, and an instructional video.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, just to close off the last Monday Morning Math for 2013, let me mention that my wife and I have a new book available on Amazon.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00H8I2GX6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00H8I2GX6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dmmgfk-20\">The World&#8217;s Biggest\u00a0Animals<\/a>, based on our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/\"> website of the same name<\/a>, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=kindle&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=dmmgfk-20&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps\">only for Kindle<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t have a Kindle (and it&#8217;s not on the list you sent to Santa), youi can also get Kindle Apps for Apple and Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>If this book sells well enough, we will probably work hard next year making lots of books on animals, math, maybe other topics. If that&#8217;s something you&#8217;d like to see, tell your friends about this book!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, have a safe and happy Christmas and New Year, and I&#8217;ll see you in 2014!<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>\nMichael Hartley<\/p>\n<div class=\"emailfooter\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_757\" style=\"width: 70px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/solar-powered-saffron-rice\/powerphplist1-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"30\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-757\" title=\"powerphplist1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2013\/12\/powerphplist1.png\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_757\" style=\"width: 70px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/solar-powered-saffron-rice\/powerphplist1-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"30\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-757\" title=\"powerphplist1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2013\/12\/powerphplist1.png\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is a back-issue of one of this site&#8217;s newsletters] We got solar panels installed about 6 months ago. I did the math, and figured they&#8217;d pay themselves off within 5-6 years. Your results may vary. I&#8217;ve been tracking very carefully how much they generate. Watching the numbers tick over produces some strange ideas in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/solar-powered-saffron-rice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solar Powered Saffron Rice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}