Remember when in 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled over 10.8 million gallons. So far the current disaster has spilled over  290,000 gallons of oil. Even if this spill is not as big as the Exxon spill, it will still have devastating repercussions for the environment.

The easy way to solar power your house. Get the book.

Check out Blackle.com to see Google in Black and save a little energy in the world.

As of this writing Blackle has saved 237,747.523 Watt hours – pretty impressive.

The Casa Solar picutred here is part of the project organized by the Department of Energy of the USA .

Who knows what will come out of it, perhaps a new home idea for one of our pals.

Well, well well, what do we have here now?! The PASSAGE IS NOW OPEN a decade earlier than expected.

Bad news for those who don’t believe in global warming, now we have clear evidence that things are progressing at a greater speed than expected.

Don’t take my word for it, do a google search of northwest passage and see for yourself. Only three years ago scientists expected it would take a decade to happen.

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Essentially what it means is that instead of huge, expensive solar panels, we would actaully wear the clothing as we walk around charing our cell phones, or well, for that matter, how bout a cell phone that charges itself? Beam me up Scotty!

A great site to travel for great basic solar info is http://store.solar-electric.com/sodcwapu.html

The SoCool air conditioner uses 85% less energy than other units and emits non-ozone depleting refridgerants, not the type your daddy used.

As if that wasn’t enough OKSolar makes a unit that delivers cold air from a 40W solar module to cool a small one or two rooms and runs as low as $675. dollars, and it removes dust pollen and other allergens.

See, life is make it easier to start doing some green living.

In the early 90’s I worked at San Onofre Nuclear Power plant and did database management for the screws and seals department. I say in jest. I really don’t recall the name, but basically our department kept inventory on every screw, nut, bolt, seal, and washer in the place. We timed out when they needed replacment and reported it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on a monthly basis as I recall. There were 2000 people who worked in the plant and drugs were rampid in some areas. I’d give it more than on the average of drug addicted, not all but a higher percentage than I’d seen in the private sector in other jobs. Let’s say it was 2%, but whatever it was, yes Methampetamines were present.

Now looking back at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl both disasters blamed substantially on ill trained workers who didn’t know how to handle an accident. Fire Fighters who came into Chernobyl to fight the fire, died months later of radiation poisoning. Many people now don’t realize what even happened in history.

So in the last Presidential debate, some chipper young lad talks about using Nuclear Power as if that promise is greater than plain old solar energy. What with all the global warming, certainly there will be enough sun and wind power to generate enough energy to forgo the air conditioners.

The big problem here is that these disasters can happen and when they do they are huge. It’s not just 20 people who died somewhere the ramifications for tremendous loss are incredible. When Chernobyl went awry the radiation cloud floated over vast parts of Europe intoxicating the world out there. It’s no small mistake. It takes years and years to recover from such and event. Now here in San Diego area, Oceanside specifically, this area is within only 20 miles of the nuclear plant and should a disaster occur a great many lives would be in danger. Yes there are precautions, but yes there is grave danger there.

Kids growing up in their early 20’s should realize that these things have occured and the world should remember them, for looking ahead to stay out of the danger that we learned of in the past. Work towards things that are benign like the use of solar energy and give that precedence over nuclear power, like hydrogen and atomic bombs, they just arent’ safe when a single human operator error occurs. And I’ve never heard of anyone who was killed by a solar panel.