A year-long quest to get off the grid—and go solar

PLUS: A pandemic newsletter, Covid winter, and the GOP's election fraud allegations. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  11.12.20   THE MESSENGER What Writing a Pandemic Newsletter Showed Me About America BY PATRICE PECK In April, I started Coronavirus News for Black Folks. It gave me a kind of second sight. I could see where the country is headed—and how blind it's been.   PUBLIC HEALTH Covid Winter Is Coming. Could Humidifiers Help? BY MEGAN MOLTENI As the air gets drier, and people stay indoors with the heater on, humidity will likely play a role in how easily the respiratory virus spreads.   VOTING The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud BY LILY HAY NEWMAN Through numerous legal and other challenges, the Trump campaign and its allies have consistently undermined their argument.   FORTUNATE SUN Going Solar: My Year-Long Quest to Get Off the Grid BY CHRISTOPHER NULL I installed a solar power system in my home in an attempt at "energy resilience." The constraints—and the headaches—were greater than I anticipated.   SPONSORED CONTENT Calculate Your Time to Retirement With This Quiz When will you retire? This quiz will find local, fiduciary financial advisors near you in minutes. GET WIRED Get 1 year of WIRED access for less than $1 a month. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now.   IS THIS A PIGEON? There's Something Super Weird About Netflix Anime BY CECILIA D'ANASTASIO It's heavy on action and sci-fi. It's extremely international. A lot of it is CGI. Is this the future of the Japanese art form?   IDEAS 'Proning' Covid Patients Seems to Save Lives. But How Many? BY ROXANNE KHAMSI Hospitalizations for the disease are at their peak, but the death rate is way down. The simple procedure of flipping people over may be an important reason why.   GREEN GOVERNMENT Can Biden Make Climate Progress With a Divided Congress? Actually, Yeah BY ERIC NIILER Environmental experts say the administration may fare better by working with green governors and clean tech businesses, and by signing executive orders.   TV All Baby Yoda Does Is Coo and Destroy Things BY EMMA GREY ELLIS It's time to face it: The Child has taken a dark turn.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions