Green News and Eco Friendly Products

If you’ve been trying to figure out how to live green with the global warming situation, look no further than this new Solar Powered Air Conditioner. Combine that with a turbine wind power generator and wallah, in a windy hot desert you have one hell of a great solution for staying cool.

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.

Funny, I feel as if I’m becoming an activist for human causes. Maybe because I’m older now and I remember new stories that kids today don’t recall. Chernobyl, power plant disaster, ruined the area for the last 20 years in radiation, and yet it’s a beautiful place now untouched and thriving with wildlife. But in the days ahead, do people really look back to realize what has come before and even know of it?

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.

While searching for information on water wells, one of the best resources that I’ve found on water wells is here.

This is more on my quest to live green and find a nice location for living where nothing can affect the water table.

This site is a gem for finding out about water tables, well drilling and all the things surrounding water wells, with a straighforward way of divulging the information.

One of the thoughts I have about this is that if there is a drought, or as they say global warming, certainly there will be a nice moderate climate place to live, to drill a deep well and to be unaffected by the elements. Since I live in Southern California this may be a tall order as most of the area is considered a dry desert condition.

Here we come with the bad news, right outside of Temecula California where water wells have apparently dried up. Here is an interesting story on wells going dry. One would have to wonder, why not drill deeper?

Another interesting read on the Colorado River, and for that matter many rivers that are running dry is found here. Where basically it’s reported that “The Colorado River now rarely makes it to the sea. With the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and, most important, California depending heavily on the Colorado’s water, the river is simply drained dry before it reaches the Gulf of California. ” It goes on to say “In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas–three leading grain-producing states–the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters (100 feet). As a result, wells have gone dry on thousands of farms in the southern Great Plains.”  This phenomena has many worried that there is no safe place nearby where our families have grown up and been raised. But denial reigns supreme here in San Diego county where green lawns are sprawled in front of every house, even though this area is a desert type climate.