Brunch tomorrow in Texas will take place under the eye of Sauron. From about 10:20 am local time in San Antonio, the sky will begin to darken with an annular solar eclipse, in which the moon crosses directly in front of the sun at a time the satellite is especially distant from the Earth. From an earthling’s perspective, the moon will be too small to blot out the sun entirely, leaving fiery tendrils at the edge of a deep black disk. About 10 percent of the sun will manage to flicker past.
For those in charge of converting solar radiation into electricity, that remaining fraction provides little comfort. From California