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With just under two weeks left in 2020, it’s a pretty good time to look at what Blue Virginia’s top posts were this year. First, though, according to Google Analytics, we’ve had about 2.1 million pageviews on Blue Virginia this year – not too shabby (note: I’ve been told by the techies that Google Analytics is a very conservative estimate). The most active month has been December, with about 200k pageviews as of today, and the least active month November, with 133k pageviews. In terms of most-viewed articles, also per Google Analytics, see below for the top 100 of 2020 (note: I’m including only those published in 2020 – as opposed to ones from late 2019 that got a lot of views in 2020 – on this list).
Everybody has a favorite topic to bring up at parties when someone who knows them only vaguely and can’t remember what line of work they’re in seeks clues by asking, “So what have you been up to lately?”
“Advocating for offshore wind!” I used to respond brightly, which is why I wasn’t that popular at parties even before the pandemic.
But I got my longed-for turbines when Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and Dominion Energy committed to developing 2,600 megawatts of offshore wind by the middle of this decade.
So now I’m campaigning for another cutting-edge technology, or rather, for a cutting-edge combination of otherwise familiar technologies. I’m talking about agrivoltaics. For those of you not in the know, agrivoltaics refers to using land for solar panels and farming purposes at the same time. The “construction footprint” of solar that is, the amount of land at a solar facility that is taken up by infrastructure and can’t be used for anything else is less