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We now live in the City of Vancouver, Clark County, Washington State, USA.
We lived from 1998-2017 in Northern California, in the North Sacramento Valley, in Tehama County, near Red Bluff, California. There, we have a Mediterranean climate, USA climate Zone 9. Rain comes in the winter months, and nearly no rain from June until October. We lived in a rural area that featured groves of almonds, olives, and walnuts; and cattle grazing.
My primary interests are in the Northwestern United States of America, i.e., from Sacramento to San Jose and then north into Northwestern Canada; including British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
My observations and suggestions come from this geographical perspective.
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California Desalinization Plant in Carlsbad,
California
California Energy Commission Publications Database
Catching the Sun. Documentary film, 73 Minutes, 2015.
Filmmaker: Shalini Kantayya.
Wikipedia
article.
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring
Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. By Paul Hawken. Penguin
Books, 2008. 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0143113652.
Bonneville Power Administration,
USA Department of Energy, Northwestern USA
Classical Five
Elements Theories Fire (Sun), Water, Earth (Soil), Air, Void
(Space)
Columbia River
Basin Hydroelectric Dam System
Conservation, Frugality:
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Department of Energy of
the United States of America
Do It Yourself 12 Volt Solar Power. By Michael Daniels. Kindle Edition, 2011. 128 pages. VSCL.
EcoWorld:
Nature and Technology in Harmony
Five Common Myths About Residental Solar
Five Elements - Classical
Theories Fire (Sun), Water, Earth (Soil), Air, Void (Space)
The Geysers: The World's
Largest Geothermal Field in Northern California.
The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy.
By Lester R. Brown with Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Bonney, and Emily Adams. W. W. Norton and Company, 2015.
Index, bibliography, 178 pages. ISBN: 978-0393350555. VSCL.
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.
By Vance Jones. New York, Harper One, 2009. 272 pages. ISBN:
978-0061650765. VSCL.
Green Party of the United States - Wikipedia
How Much Solar Energy Hits the Earth. From EcoWorld: Nature and
Technology in Harmony.
Hydroelectric
Power Production in the Columbia River Basin
Hydroelectric Power
Production
101 Ways to Save Energy in Your Home
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. By Al Gore.
Rodale Books, 2009. 416 pages. ISBN: 978-1594867347. VSCL.
One Old Daoist Druid's Final
Journey
Pacific Gas and
Electric Company, Northern California
Shasta Dam in Northern
California
Simplicity, Frugality - Quotations,
Bibliography
Solar Electricity Handbook: 2016 Edition: A Simple, Practical Guide to Solar
Energy - Designing and Installing Solar PV Systems. Greenstream
Publishing, 2016, Kindle Edition. 307 pages. VSCL.
The Spirit of Gardening.
3800 quotations arranged by 250 topics. Compiled by Mike Garofalo.
Take Action: Become a Sun Catcher
Well Pump - Solar Powered
Installed by Mike Garofalo in Red Bluff, California, in 2008.
VSCL. Valley Spirit Center Library, Red Bluff, California. In the
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"In 2011, the International
Energy Agency said
that "the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy
technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’
energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly
import-independent resource, enhance sustainability,
reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating global
warming,
and keep fossil
fuel prices
lower than otherwise. These advantages are global. Hence the additional costs of
the incentives for early deployment should be considered learning investments;
they must be wisely spent and need to be widely shared."
- Wikipedia
"To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star proven to grow vegetables."
- Philip Scherrer
"Visible light (commonly referred to
simply as light) is
electromagnetic radiation (EMR) that is
visible to the
human eye,
and is responsible for the sense of
sight. Visible light has a
wavelength
in the range of about 380
nanometres
to about 740 nm – between the invisible
infrared, with longer wavelengths and the invisible
ultraviolet, with shorter wavelengths. Primary properties of visible
light are
intensity, propagation direction,
frequency
or
wavelength
spectrum, and
polarisation, while its
speed in a vacuum, 299,792,458 meters per second (about 300,000 kilometers
per second, 186,282 miles per second), is one of the fundamental constants of
nature. Visible light, as with all types of electromagnetic radiation is
experimentally found to move at exactly this same speed in vacuum. In
common with all types of EMR, visible light is emitted and absorbed in tiny
"packets" called
photons, and exhibits properties of both
waves and
particles. This property is referred to as the
wave–particle duality. The study of light, known as
optics, is an
important research area in modern physics. In
physics, the
term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any
wavelength, whether visible or not. See the
electromagnetic radiation article for the general term. There are
many sources of light. The most common light sources are thermal: a body at
a given
temperature emits a characteristic spectrum of
black-body radiation. A simple thermal source is
sunlight,
the radiation emitted by the
chromosphere of the
Sun at around 6,000 Kelvin
peaks in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum when plotted in
wavelength units and roughly 44% of sunlight energy that reaches the ground is
visible. Another example is
incandescent light bulbs, which emit only around 10% of their energy as
visible light and the remainder as infrared. A common thermal light source in
history is the glowing solid particles in
flames, but these
also emit most of their radiation in the infrared, and only a fraction in the
visible spectrum. . Instead, modern physics sees light as something that can be
described sometimes with mathematics appropriate to one type of macroscopic
metaphor (particles), and sometimes another macroscopic metaphor (water waves),
but is actually something that cannot be fully imagined."
-
Light - Wikipedia
"The earth has received the embrace of the
sun
and we shall see the results of that love."
- Hunkesni (Sitting Bull)
"If solar power is the purest form of renewable energy known, then how much solar power have we got? The answer to this question, when considered alongside how efficiently we can convert raw sunshine into usable power, helps determine whether or not it is realistic to consider solar energy as a viable alternative to conventional energy sources.
In full sun, you can safely assume about 100 watts of solar energy per square foot. If you assume 12 hours of sun per day, this equates to 438,000 watt-hours per square foot per year. Based on 27,878,400 square feet per square mile, sunlight bestows a whopping 12.2 trillion watt-hours per square mile per year.
With these assumptions, figuring out how much solar energy hits the entire planet is relatively simple. 12.2 trillion watt-hours converts to 12,211 gigawatt-hours, and based on 8,760 hours per year, and 197 million square miles of earth’s surface (including the oceans), the earth receives about 274 million gigawatt-years of solar energy, which translates to an astonishing 8.2 million “quads” of Btu energy per year.
In case you haven’t heard, a “quad
Btu” refers to one quadrillion British Thermal Units of energy, a common term
used by energy economists. The entire human race currently uses about 400 quads
of energy (in all forms) per year. Put another way, the solar energy hitting the
earth exceeds the total energy consumed by humanity by a factor of over 20,000
times."
-
How Much Solar Energy Hits the Earth? From EcoWorld: Nature and
Technology in Harmony.
"The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths,
and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the
essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind."
- Robert Jastrow
"The Geysers is the world's largest geothermal field, containing a complex of 22 geothermal power plants, drawing steam from more than 350 wells, located in the Mayacamas Mountains approximately 72 miles north of San Francisco, California. It field spans an area of around 30 square miles in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties in California, centered in the area of Geyser Canyon and Cobb Mountain. Power from The Geysers provides electricity to Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Marin, and Napa counties. It is estimated that the development meets 60% of the power demand for the coastal region between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oregon state line. Unlike most geothermal resources, the Geysers is a dry steam field which mainly produces superheated steam."
"When the sun hat fits, it's ugly.
The sun does not shine equally on all yards.
Plants favor sunshine, we thrive in the
shade.
Leaves are sunlight, bound by water, shaped by
invisible rules.
Ripening grapes in the summer sun - reason
enough to plod ahead.
Sunshine is Life for gardeners.
Death is light's out forever.
All seeing is seeing something."
- Michael P. Garofalo,
Pulling Onions
"The Northwest USA relies on hydropower for about two-thirds of its electricity, and 40 percent of all U.S. hydropower comes from the Columbia River Basin hydroelectric dam system."
"I believe in the cosmos.
All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at
the sun: If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god.
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are
my cathedrals."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
1990
"We could have saved the Earth but we
were too damned cheap."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First
of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there
for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time:
heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money,
I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly
enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I
formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.”
- George Carlin
"Light is
the symbol of truth."
- James Russell Lowell
"Beyond a doubt, truth
bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"The sun rose on the
flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen - all one brightening for
gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain."
- Homer, The Odyssey
"Work a great deal with evening
effects, a lamp, a candle, etc. The tantalizing thing is not always to who the
source of light, but the effect of light."
- Edward Degas
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, he Moon, and the heavens."
- Anaxagoras
"Keep on the sunny side
Always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life;
It will help you every day
It will brighten you on the way
Keep on the sunny side of life."
- Popular American song
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"The eastern light our spires touch at morning,
"We have
the eye, which of the five senses is the closest to the brain, or rather
is the sensory channel through which the brain itself directly perceives
the external world. Light is indispensable for the proper functioning of
the eye. Our visual power (function) to discern objects is more easily
frustrated by manipulating light than by directly blocking the direction
of our gaze, as is illustrated by the dark changes of scene in a
theater. This also means that our discernible world varies with the
quantity of light. Often we feel peaceful when we settle into an
indirectly illuminated space or dim corner. As we know, in such a
relative darkness, not so deep as to risk our safety, we feel more
reassured than scared, and the faintness of light calms and relaxes us."
- James Turrell
"Information is light. Information
in itself, about anything, is light."
- Tom Stoppard
"There was a
young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She went out one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night."
- Arthur Buller
"At first a small line of inconceivable
splendor emerged on
the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory,
unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every color of the landscape, and
sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light."
- Ann Reacliffe
"We eat light, drink it in
through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things
physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then
you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act--there's a sweet
deliciousness to feeling yourself see something."
- James Turrell
"The film of evening
light made the red earth lucent, so that its dimensions were deepened, so that a
stone, a post, a building, had greater depth, and more solidity than in any
daytime light; and these objects were curiously more individual- a post was more
essentially a post, set off from the earth it stood in and the field of corn it
stood out against. All plants were individuals, not the mass of crop; and the
ragged willow tree was itself, standing free of all other willow trees. The
earth contributed a light to the evening. The front of the gray, paintless
house, facing the west, was luminous as the moon is. The gray dusty truck, in
the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn
perspective of a stereopticon."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
"Light is not so much something
that reveals, as it is itself the revelation."
- James Turrell
"Sunlight bestows a whopping 12.2
trillion watt-hours per square mile per year. The solar energy hitting the
earth per year exceeds the total energy in all forms consumed by humanity per
year by a factor of over 20,000 times."
-
How Much Solar Energy Hits the Earth? From EcoWorld: Nature and
Technology in Harmony.
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"Supreme Awareness (Chiti,
Brahmin, Self, Supreme Auspiciousness) is most often explained using the
metaphor of 'light.' Light, and by comparison 'consciousness,' is
illuminating, brilliant, bright, shining, luminous, allows us to see, provides
visions, can be enlightened, shows the Way. Understanding is a function of
seeing, looking, and insight. Light is associated with life, growth,
energy, and warmth. Consciousness can be clear, focused, split up,
diffused, shadowy, opaque, and magnified. Numerous religions have
considered the sun to be a divine being, or their gods and goddesses to give off
light, energy, warmth, and to light the way for us. Evil beings keep us in
darkness, steal the light away, burn us up or freeze us, or are the Prince of
Darkness."
- Mike Garofalo
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