Hello: Just a bit about my profile picture: it was taken in Marysville, Washington, a small town along the Columbia River, which defines most of the Washington-Oregon border. In Marysville there is a Stonehenge replica, I'm leaning against one of the stones.

I like this picture especially for the land and sky background dotted with windmills. I grew up in this type of a landscape in eastern Washington in the 1970s and 1980s. There were no windmill farms at the time. Nearly all my friends' parents were in the nuclear industry, either actively generating energy for western Washington residents, or involved in alternative energy research, which included other nuclear technologies besides the standard (which was at the time non-recirculating water-cooled fission.)  The non-nuclear alternative at the time seemed to be solar, but not so much wind.

I like the juxtaposition of these elements in the picture: Stonehenge, one of the older human scientific inventions (still under debate, one theory was Stonehenge was used for astronomy) with one that changed in my lifetime - the focus on alternative energy going from nuclear to wind.

-Karen Takatani