Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The Tesla Roadster can be recharged using solar energy; with installation for this option provided at the customer's home by SolarCity, a partner of Tesla Motors. SolarCity (www.solarcity.com) is a provider of solar energy systems, delivering power to homes and businesses. This solar technology comes with a comprehensive suite of services: from design and installation through ongoing system monitoring. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |  Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels. This suggests that a drastic curtailment of energy use would be necessary for humans to try and live within the current year-on-year budget of solar energy. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Acting like a catalyst, good dirt allows plants to capture sunlight and convert solar energy and carbon dioxide into the carbohydrates that power terrestrial life right on up the food chain.
Plants need nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and a host of other elements. Some, like calcium or sodium, are common enough that their scarcity does not limit plant growth. Others, like cobalt, are quite rare and yet essential. The processes that create soil also cycle nutrients through ecosystems, and thereby indirectly make the land hospitable to animals as well as plants. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts | | Humans already appropriate between a quarter and 40 per cent of planetary net primary production (NPP: defined as the net amount of solar energy converted to plant organic matter through photosynthesis). As the authors of one scientific study remark: 'This is a remarkable level of co-option for a species that represents roughly 0.5% of the heterotroph [animal] biomass on Earth.' And remember, this is in addition to the 400 years' worth of ancient NPP we consume each year through our fossil fuel use. We are voraciously consuming not just modern nature, but ancient nature too. | | Still more pollution may come from seawater desalination plants in desertifying countries like Portugal and Spain, unless these are powered exclusively by solar energy. But controlling further greenhouse gas emissions may be the last thing on any politician's agenda, desperate as they will be for fresh water to keep cities habitable and prevent agricultural collapse. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Because solar energy is totally environmentally friendly, the SolarMine project saves 850 tons of carbon dioxide and 1,950 pounds of nitric oxide annually. As so often happens, bottom-line savings are achieved with technologies that not only reduce greenhouse emissions but also put American technology in a leadership role (although Europe now has an even larger and more impressive solar array near Leipzig).
"No upkeep. Consistent power. I'd say this is a good thing. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts | | Unique amongst animals, we humans have been able to break out of the ecological constraints imposed by a finite annual budget of solar energy by using the chemical energy stored geologically in oil, coal and gas. We no longer have to rely on nature's annual bounty, because to all intents and purposes we can eat oil.
So fossil fuels, more than any other factor, have made humans successful. Other animals have to live within the constraints of their ecosystems, where their numbers are regulated by food supply, predators and so on. | | This suggests that a drastic curtailment of energy use would be necessary for humans to try and live within the current year-on-year budget of solar energy.
It also highlights the extent to which our civilisation depends on a one-off energy subsidy from the past, in the form of fossil fuels formed by plants photosynthesising ancient sunlight over millions of years. Indeed, we probably use a million years' worth of fossil fuels every year, expressed in terms of the time it took for them to form, at current rates of use. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  The processes of digestion, assimilation, and metabolism of food in the body are mainly used to break down, transfer, store, and utilize these various forms of encapsulated solar energy. The lowest level of the food chain, where foods are manufactured directly by sunlight, makes available the most sun energy. In contrast, products that are high on the food chain contain little or no sun energy and are practically useless, if not harmful, for the body. |
Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Perhaps this plant likes to grow in full sun. solar energy is active, warming, stimulating, and drying and carries that masculine energy of outward movement. On the other hand, perhaps this plant likes to grow in the shade where the energy is cooling, moist, and calming. This earth energy is more receptive and feminine in nature. Maybe this plant likes a bit of both and grows in part sun and part shade, embracing aspects of both the sun and the earth.
After observing the wide-angle view of the plant, you then want a close-up view. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | Currently, BP is looking to expand their solar energy market.42 In 2004, the company announced plans to double its capacity from around 90 to 200 megawatts by 2006.
In 2004, the energy supplier opened a 4 megawatt solar farm (one of the largest in the world) in Germany that will supply enough energy to for 1,000 four-person households.
In California, BP is working with the Home Depot to promote their Solar Home Solutions package and make it widely available to consumers. | | To show you how extensively green consciousness has begun to permeate America, particularly institutional building design, Albany County in the state of New York is using solar energy at the county's hockey facility in Colonic Albany County partnered with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which provided $240,000 for the project, and ETM Solar Works, which installed the 40kW photovoltaic system on the roof of the facility. | | Shell is a leader in solar energy as well. In 2004, in partnership with GEOSOL, Shell opened the world's largest solar park in Leipzig, Germany.^ The solar power station will produce energy for about 1,800 households, and save some 3,700 tons of C02 emissions annually. Shell is currently working on new solar technology such as CIS "thin film" which they believe will be more competitive in energy production than silicon-based technologies. | | GEOSOL
German-based Gesellschaft fur Sonnenenergie, translated to the Society for solar energy, and most commonly known simply as GEOSOL, is a leader in solar power. The primary goal of GEOSOL is to change the energy industry by introducing and promoting renewable energy solutions. GEOSOL also functions as an intermediary between scientists, engineers, architects, the construction industry, industry authorities, and parliaments.
One of GEOSOL's most exciting accomplishments was to build the world's largest solar park, near Leipzig, Germany, which opened in 2004. | | BP expects its upcoming solar energy efforts to focus on providing "on-grid" installations in key markets, while continuing with "off-grid" projects in developing countries.
BP also sees a lot of potential in wind power. In 2004 BP's joindy owned 22.5 megawatt wind farm in the Netherlands completed its first full year of operation, providing enough power for 20,000 typical Dutch homes. BP is currently focusing their efforts on the development of wind farms at existing BP refineries and petrochemical plants; this has the additional benefit of curtailing the spread of industrialized land. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Other green features, such as solar energy and natural ventilation, will keep costs down and spaces comfortable. The Editt Tower design has undergone an evaluation of its strategies for eventual retrofits and the long-term disuse of building components, ensuring that its environmental accountability doesn't apply only to its initial construction, but to its entire life cycle.
Dr. Yeang, whose tower design won the Ecological Design in the Tropics 1998 award, made human experience a priority in the development of Editt Tower. | | Some resources — like the solar energy beaming toward us from the sun—are renewable
(that is, they don't run out when we use them right). Others, like oil, are not. Unfortunately, our society depends on nonrenewable resources. This cannot continue for two reasons:
First, nonrenewable resources have increasingly severe environmental costs —simply getting them or using them leaves us with less natural capital. Burning oil, for instance, is changing our weather, bringing on a global climate crisis on a scale never before imagined.
Second, we're simply running out of these resources. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | This solar technology comes with a comprehensive suite of services: from design and installation through ongoing system monitoring.
Safety and performance are not lost with the Tesla Roadster
The Battery Safety Monitor responds to an emergency involving the condition of the car battery - in this case, by automatically disconnecting the battery pack from the vehicle and shutting down power to the car and to all electric cables in the car. It also is programmed to prevent overcharging in much the same way. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Over one thousand innocent persons are arrested every day in America for Hemp-related interests, neglecting to direct resources to alleviate government shortcomings, crime, indebtedness, inability to provide incentives for a breakthrough in decentralized solar energy, domestic fuel, hydrogen fuel, other social problems, etc.. Can anyone prove Hemp is not a remnant of the Tree of Life that was to provide immortality to Adam and Eve, their children, and the "healing forthe nations" of later day? Man made alcohol, and God made Hemp. Whom do we trust the most? |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | With only a hundred watts of power, the unit, designed by solar energy Systems Infrastructure, can purify 132 gallons (500 liters) of brackish or disease-laden water. Just under a kilowatt of power could help NASA's Water Recovery System —indispensable when water is extremely polluted or in such limited supply that otherwise unusable sources, such as urine, must be considered—create 35 gallons (121 liters) of drinking water per day.
Disaster medicine gets much easier with the Hospital in a Box. This portable medical system, designed by medical technician Alexander Bushell and consultant Dr. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts |  This is done by exposing the foods to certain levels of gamma radiation, the shortest wavelength of the light wave spectrum of solar energy. Not only does this process not work, it is highly dangerous for the individuals performing this process, just as it is also dangerous to those consuming the irradiated foods.
An essential key to health and reversing aging is identifying and eliminating the toxins from our life.
In 1992, the FDA approved irradiation of poultry; and in 1997, it approved irradiation of red meats. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | Above: Greenpeace workers in Bangkok, Thailand, hand out pamphlets to passersby, supplying them with information on solar energy and clean power. are now committed to changing the climate—but by making smart choices in our own lives, we can both prosper and prevent global warming from becoming any worse than it needs to be. JC
Check Your Carbon Footprint mmmm So you've checked your "environmental footprint" [see Questioning Consumption, p. 32] score online, and now you know your overall impact on the planet. But how do you break that number down into concrete elements? |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts |  In the deeper sense, "solar" could also apply to fossil fuels, as they represent eons of solar energy stored in hydrocarbon compounds, and to everyday fuels such as cordwood and cow manure, which owe their existence to sunlight. But for the purposes of this discussion I am talking about the first two.
Passive solar power is great. You build something right and it keeps on giving back value in terms of comfort. Premodernist architecture was developed to take advantage of sunlight for heating and lighting buildings (and breezes for cooling, which are also produced by solar action on air). | | Malthus was certainly correct, but cheap oil has skewed the equation over the past hundred years while the human race has enjoyed an unprecedented orgy of nonrenewable condensed solar energy accumulated over eons of prehistory. The "green revolution" in boosting crop yields was minimally about scientific innovation in crop genetics and mostly about dumping massive amounts of fertilizers and pesticides made out of fossil fuels onto crops, as well as employing irrigation at a fantastic scale made possible by abundant oil and gas. | | You can't make lead-acid storage batteries for solar electric systems using any known solar energy systems.
The pseudo-fuel hydrogen will be considered in its own special category, as the popular hopes about it are based on higher orders of unreality. The so-called "hydrogen economy" centered around hydrogen-powered cars, as promised by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union message, is at this point a fantasy, and an especially dangerous one insofar as it promotes complacency about the predicament we face. | | It has only been the anomalous abundance of cheap oil and gas in our time that permitted builders, and especially architects preoccupied with style issues, to depart from traditional practices that took advantage of passive solar energy. The twentieth century was the era of glass "curtain walls" on office buildings, windows that didn't open (or didn't exist), titanium facades on civic structures, and other fashionable stunts for "dressing up" buildings to proclaim the bold creative genius of their designers. | | In contrast, the stock products of the home-building industry in recent years have been ludicrous in terms of even minimally utilizing passive solar energy. The typical "McMansion," or super-sized tract house on a half-acre lot, with its "lawyer-foyer" and great room, is an energy hog and many of them may be uninhabitable in the coming age of energy austerity. They were designed under the assumption that natural gas would be cheap and plentiful forever.
In fact, the single-family stand-alone house may have a tragic destiny in the years ahead. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  There is also a very important additional benefit available from solar energy and the sun, and that is called "sun gazing" (www.solarhealing. com). Sun gazing is actually looking at the sun. This can only be done right after sunrise or right before sunset. Other times would be too dangerous for the eyes. However, the health benefits of sun gazing go even beyond that of sunbathing. I would encourage you to go to this website to learn more information on sun gazing. | | Every living thing on the planet, with rare exception, cannot live without solar energy from the sun. Virtually every living thing on Planet Earth needs the sun to survive. (There are rare exceptions to this, of course.) The human body needs sunlight to function at optimal levels and be healthy. Without sunlight, a whole host of physical abnormalities and diseases become prevalent. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is the foundation of life on the Earth and resonates in constant harmony with the universe, holding the solar energy of the sun and stars, the lunar energies, and the energies of the Earth. In that process, water changes its properties. Depending on what energies it absorbs and carries, water can be either a benefit or a harm to people, making them well or ill. It can give off positive or negative energy, healing or disease-producing energy.
Some, such as the great medieval physician Paracelsus, pointed to the incredibly important effects of water for healing. |
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