Larch Valley
This is a computer-abstracted version of a painting that was based loosely on some
other people’s photographs taken from Sentinel Pass above Larch Valley.
I’ve never been up there myself, because of a grizzly bear warning posted at
the trailhead at Moraine Lake (plus it’s a really long climb.)
The haiku is advocating a larger role for direct current on our power grids, as DC is required by many end-use devices such as digital equipment, solar PV, storage batteries, electric vehicles. The fourth revolution is, of course, the fourth industrial revolution – intelligent automation, artificial intelligence that enables robots to learn and communicate with each other, machines that can make multiple products and customize each one, software-driven systems.
