![]() ![]() #FolkloreThursday at Twitter is looking a little serpentine today, and for some reason this old Swiss folktale came to mind.Ī good while back, more or less around the end of the eighth century, Charlemagne was King of the Franks: and he had a castle-or more properly speaking, in that period, a nice little fortress-down in the Zürich area.Ĭharlemagne had a reputation already for (when he wasn’t rampaging around the local battlefields) being quite interested in the concept of justice for both high and low. That work is starting now, so every now and then some favorite image will pop up here. Many thousands of images in various states of processing have piled up over the years, to the point where it’s become necessary to develop a multiply-tagged, cross-indexed, opus-number-based management system for them before I can’t find anything any more. I’m storing this image here (and the link to the page where it can be seen at full size) so that I can find it quickly, as right now my graphics collection is in a state of flux. The bare terrain comes courtesy of the Swiss: the snow is added using a “clip file” - kind of a Terragen plugin. Since some parts of RT:AWFTS take place near the Aletsch (or indeed in it…) and in the neighborhood of the Jungfrau, I made it my business to glom onto the digital data as quickly as I could and started playing around with it. ![]() The Swiss national mapping service has made digital elevation model (DEM) terrain data openly available for those who might want to use it. Climate change is already eating away at its magnificence.) ![]() These three massive snowfields give birth to the Aletschgletscher: one of the world’s great glaciers and a UNESCO World Heritage site. ![]() Pictured here, under some midsummer dawn, is the Jungfrau Massif - the three-mountain group whose downsloping south sides meet in what the Swiss call Konkordiaplatz or Place de la Concorde. This one’s a particular favorite in that creating it involves using actual terrain data derived from aerial or (in some cases) space-based radar. As I now have much better equipment to work with, a lot of these early files are getting re-rendered at much higher resolutions than were available to me then. …Anyway, this particular piece of digital art goes back to cover work I was doing ten years or so ago, on the initial ebook editions of Raetian Tales: A Wind from the South. Clouds and atmospheric effects have always been one of Terragen’s strongest suits: they get beautifully shown off in that clip. To see what someone really adept can do with it, check out - as an example - the Terragen-based Paramount 100th Anniversary logo animation. (Mostly having to do more with my own learning curve than any inherent problem with the software.) Terragen is a high-end tool used by professional film production companies and digital artists all over the place, and is both insanely powerful and fairly challenging to get to grips with. Subsequent phases will begin to be financed in 2023 and begin to come on-line in 2024.I’ve been using Planetside Software’s Terragen program/app for cover work and concept art for a long while, with varying levels of success. Terra-Gen is advancing development on future phases of this project that will include over 2,000 MW of incremental solar and energy storage to be interconnected to the CAISO grid. Terra-Gen expects the solar portion of the second phase to come on-line in the third and fourth quarters of 2022 with the battery storage scheduled to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2023. Mortenson is the full engineering, procurement and construction contractor on both the solar and energy storage scopes with First Solar supplying the solar modules and LG Chem, Samsung and BYD supplying the batteries. Terra-Gen’s Edwards Sanborn project is located in Kern County on land leased from Edwards Air Force Base as well as on adjacent private land. “Once complete, Edwards Sanborn will play a significant role in helping California meet its carbon reduction goals and ensure electricity reliability through the use of stand-alone and collocated energy storage.” “Consistent with the first phase of the Edwards Sanborn project, the second phase deploys an innovate offtake structure that has been well received in the financing markets and allows us to raise the capital necessary to progress the construction of this transformative project,” says Jim Pagano, Terra-Gen’s CEO. Bank is providing the tax equity commitment for the project, with BNP Paribas, CoBank, ING and Nomura Securities leading the construction and term financing. The financing for the second phase includes $959 million senior secured credit facilities comprising a $460 million construction and term loan facility, a $403 million tax equity bridge facility, and a $96 million construction and revolving letter of credit facility. ![]()
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