Okay! We are back, and have been picking vegetables all day now. The gardens are producing like madness overload a bumper crop. Some say it is contributed to all the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this year, along with all the extra rain. We are putting up as much produce as possible, and passing some of the excess to family and neighbors. I am thinking of starting a farmers market soon.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-17-07 Earth Continuum 7 224
Time is one of the most precious things we have, and free time is what we call time set free to do what we love to do with our time. The concept of wasting time is doing something with your time that in the end will not matter after all, while on the other hand using your time well. Well will just accumulate into time well spent which adds to the value of life itself. For instance the time you spend planting a garden is usually considered time well spent cause in the end that investment should pay off in a lot of good healthy produce. From that point of view one truly can get out of time what ever you put into time. Time is like a savings account at a bank, you put the time in and it draws interest and over time it pays you back. Some people have come to think of this as karma where as, how you spend your time will someday return to you with either a reward or a curse. Again, Time is kind of like money in the way that it isn't the money, but instead it is what we use the money for that matters. Wasting money, wasting time is about the same thing. In the end just pay attention to which way the wind is blowing, and which way the tree is falling, cause time, like the wind is always changing directions.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-18-07 Earth Continuum 7 223
All the renewable energy systems are steady as she goes, right along with the Sun, Wind, and Water. Today we finished some special screens that go on the skylights allowing the view into the sky yet blocking most of the heat. The product we used is called the Phifer Charcoal Super Solar Screen The ultimate in shading protection, this fabric blocks up to 90 percent of the sun's heat and glare before it reaches the window or glass. In addition to providing excellent sun control properties, this mesh also serves as an insect screen. It offers excellent outward visibility and is available in Charcoal and Silver Gray colors.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-19-07 Earth Continuum 7 222
Have you ever considered that the whole human civilization on this planet has been set up totally wrong and is on a path of self- destruction. This idea that human beings have to separate themselves off into groups, which includes countries, religions, governments, and even states has this tendency of pitting human against human as the history of this type of arrangement has proved time and time again. Some have suggested that the future will bring about a one world government where all people will exist under one banner, one flag. I personally don't see this happening, but instead the opposite, a world where each earthy citizen is free as if a whole country to themselves. A world where each individual is self sufficient, a producer not a consumer. A world without need or want, but instead a place where each human baby born will be as if borne into heaven itself.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-20-07 Earth Continuum 7 221
I have studied the energies in raw nature for many years and have come to one of several conclusions which are that there is enough energy from renewables that surrounds each human being on this planet every day to very adequately supply all their creature comforts from nutrition to energy of all forms from electricity to transportation. We now have the technologies to tap into all these natural energies very efficiently, whereas one of the greatest barriers to such transitions are political in the way our present monetary structures are introduced. Instead of allowing a more natural process for producing monetary value on commodities and services at present most systems just plainly use a printing press with special fibers and ink to make money which really have nothing to do with the solar constant or daily photosynthesis input on a human global scale as we as a species interact with a Star, the source of all energy that we use for commerce.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-21-07 Earth Continuum 7 220
The sun rays were just beginning to lift from my desk when I noticed the lamp wasn't on.
Thinking ----Ves, playing with the illumination controls again, pushing reset. There, it is coming on now. Now, where is it? Hmm, there it is. All right, Mag Lev, let's see there it is."Beep"
"Hey, Ves guess what. Here is the answer to our little problem, A Mag is leaving tonight at eight, arrival time at Utopia nine fifteen. That will give us time to meet Dad at the Center."
"Great!"
Said Vestra, as a smile lit up her face.
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"Beep"
"Now listen up Ves, its time to go into travel prep mode, So lets work together. I'm switching the E.V. to full charging power while you check the bins and activate auto watering and feeding for the animals. Also, start your personal packing. We don't have a lot of time. I'll check the greenhouses, and set climate controls ahead, seven days."
"Beep"
With that we sped off to do our chores.
Later on, back at the central neuron computer, the daily stat report was printing out. All looked well. The rover was fully charged with 1200 rad. Wow, that new P.V. sun tracker system Voss installed last week was sure pumping up the amp hour meter.
I switched to monitor just in time to see Ves walk through the front entry while activating intercom
"Beep"
" Ves, why the strange look?
A few seconds went by, then,
"Beep"
" I got in touch with Voss. There is a problem at the net zero P. V. project. It seems to be urgent. He wants you down there tomorrow."
"Beep"
I felt numbed for a moment. What could it be?
"Beep"
"Any more details?
"Beep"
"Yes, something about several nuclear power plants shutting permanent! This week. People are swarming the shop for solar electric backup. Voss said he is not equipped to handle the mass of orders.
"Beep, Beep"
"Just like we figured. Great! Thanks we'll talk more in a bit. I'll fax Voss the new layout plan Dad worked out before he left, and yeah let's get Mitch on the monitor. Ztra-492. We've got less than one hour to leave to catch Mag. lets do it."
" Beep"
"Okay, sounds good I'll start loading the E. V. now."
"Beep"
."Good, see you down there after this program is loaded. “
"Beep"
Mitch on the monitor.
" Hey watts clicking?"
"Beep"
"Its the P.V. Plant, Voss needs extra help, pick up Michelle, and dispatch Shuttle D-6,7 and 9, fully loaded with the new shipment of solar modules as soon as possible also several grates of the new charge controllers, and Mitch, its happening."
"Beep"
"Sure thing Jay, bout time, Voss is going to love this ,and hey thanks for the tip. Rest assured we're on it."
"Beep"
" Thanks Mitch, that planning ahead this spring is paying off. Happy trails.
"Beep"
"Jay, the rover is loaded, all we like is the stuff your bringing."
"Beep"
"Good, give me ten minutes. I've got some extra stuff to show Dad on arrival, and Vestra help me find where Dad put the mini projector."
"Beep"
"Ok, I think its in the Z lock storage, I'll let you know."
"Beep"
"Thanks."
"Beep"
I cut on the radio and started packing.
The D J was playing " Fly Like An Eagle "
I could hear,
" Time keeps on slipping, slippin, Slippin into the future ! "
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-22-07 Earth Continuum 7 219
Conversation from a science chat room -
Horn - Everybody keeps going back and forth in reference to global warming. I don't know if global warming exist or not. Many people say that from time to time the earth over heats.
Slider- There's no global warming there is global weather extremes there have been lots of heat records broken in the last couple years but there has been more cold records broke. The north pole is melting but Antarctica is gaining ice and some parts of Antarctica are colder than they have been in the last 100 years
Sol- Just eat your apple a day and everything will be alright
Slider- yep!
Horn - Apples are some people placebo.
Horn - Apples are some people placebo.
Sol- When the Earth tilts just a few degrees with respect to the incoming Sun rays the temperature goes from summer to winter with further extremes between Highs and Lows from day to day. Tiny changes in the earth's orbit can effect a lot of climate . We came out of the ice age some 12,000 years ago and the earth has been warming ever since .. something is bound to trigger the opposite effect.. as after all this is a water planet. Watch the Water!
Slider- Yeah it can and there are a few known earth wobbles too, apart from the main tilt.
Sol- Water! It will tell you what is about to happen.
Slider- The Chandler wobble is the only one I remember though.
Sol- Global warming, as man kinds contributions will not effect the overall larger natural effect between planets and stars.. IE gravity between the spheres. There simply isn't enough OIL to burn to make a difference in the big picture. We are already running out. Modern homes are slowly moving towards self contained energy systems such as photovoltaic rooftops .. and appliance matching technology to actual localized grids from several natural energy sources such as micro-hydro electric, or wind machines. Cars are going electric hybrids. The railroads will return for moving the heavy freight paving the way for total electric highways for E- cars, bikes only. Something to think about, we humans might will be wishing we would of saved all the coal and oil when the next ice age actually starts when it would be a better time to burn some of that.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-23-07 Earth Continuum 7 218
The very fact that the oceans of the earth are expanding thus rising by default means they are taking on extra heat. As the extra Co2 holds that heat nearer the surface of the earth, well most of the earth is covered with water therefore more evaporation of water is occurring which in turn is dissipating the extra heat as any good evaporator cooler would do. See this earth as a giant swamp cooler.
Several planets have taken some pretty massive hits from objects that have effected their orbits as well, spin and wobble. These effects in space are not easily rectified as the Newton's laws of motion suggest. Of course the effects of the gravitational tug a war between objects in respect to mass is harder to predict, not the mention the forces, like the push of the solar winds against planets along with the decaying orbits over time. Nowadays there is a lot of interest in other extra solar massive objects that can alter a planet's trajectory. The Milankovitch cycles are a set of cyclic variations in characteristics of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Each cycle has a different length, so at some times their effects reinforce each other and at other times they (partially) cancel each other.
Past and future of daily average insolation at top of the atmosphere on the day of the summer solstice, at 65 N latitude. There is strong evidence that the Milankovitch cycles affect the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods within an ice age. The present ice age is the most studied and best understood, particularly the last 400,000 years, since this is the period covered by ice cores that record atmospheric composition and proxies for temperature and ice volume. Within this period, the match of glacial/interglacial frequencies to the Milanković orbital forcing periods is so close that orbital forcing is generally accepted. The combined effects of the changing distance to the Sun, the precession of the Earth's axis, and the changing tilt of the Earth's axis redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. Of particular importance are changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis, which affect the intensity of seasons. For example, the amount of solar influx in July at 65 degrees north latitude varies by as much as 22% (from 450 W/m² to 550 W/m²). It is widely believed that ice sheets advance when summers become too cool to melt all of the accumulated snowfall from the previous winter. Some workers believe that the strength of the orbital forcing is too small to trigger glaciations, but feedback mechanisms like CO2 may explain this mismatch.
----------- Although the exact causes for ice ages, and the glacial cycles within them, have not been proven, they are most likely the result of a complicated dynamic interaction between such things as solar output, distance of the Earth from the sun, position and height of the continents, ocean circulation, and the composition of the atmosphere, and of course now technological man.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-24-07 Earth Continuum 7 217
Today kept busy finalizing the refinishing of some office furniture, inside the Solarium while it poured rain almost all day long. By the end of the evening the project was finished, so we made some deliveries.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-25-07 Earth Continuum 7 216
The rains have cleared out for now, and the Sun has come back out today, a welcome sight.
O' my gosh ! At how the grass has grown as well all the produce from the gardens. Time to start picking again.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-26-07 Earth Continuum 7 215
I want to write this story about the future of mankind, a story not influenced by trend, or history, not even religion, or science but instead a story of the possibilities that maybe haven't even been invented yet or conceived. A future not dictated by some bible's so called revelation, or some futurist's rendition of a want-a-be society, or some science fiction's vision of post apocalyptic aftermath of a world gone mad. I want to write a story about what is going to actually happen. The real future. The one that occurs.
Notes- There is only one way to create a better future and that is to envision it .. When enough people envisions a better world it simply occurs. The hardest part is getting people to delete all those pre-conceived ideas handed down as excess baggage from the past. Its not us. Its planet Earth herself that needs this brand new start.. This brand new beginning.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-27-07 Earth Continuum 7 214
Information flies around this world faster than the speed of sound. Well actually more closer to the speed of light, but you know what I mean. Information, its all out there almost instantly to the point that people are in a constant state of over reacting all the time without that moment of thought. It is so hard to imagine a world where information traveled at the speed that wind could blow a sail on a boat, or as fast as a horse could run across the country side. People when taking on a new idea or business deal used to sleep on it, in other words allowing the human mind the chance to rest over night allowing the notions to sink in, in a state of ponder before making a decision. Okay, after all what in this world really requires that instant decision, when most " Instant Decisions " are usually the result of someone making a mistake from some other instant decision that resulted in some negative repercussions. Well, since I have been out here on this farm the time to think things through has become a luxury that thought couldn't afford at one time in my life. In the end it is all about lifestyle.
Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind !
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-28-07 Earth Continuum 7 213
Just as expected the systems are beginning to exponentially become more efficient as if a feedback loop, where as now it is all about fine tuning. With all the basic systems in place now the savings are beginning to make a difference with way less grocery bills, electricity bills, gasoline bills, and so forth. Right now all the extra refuge from the gardens is immediately recycled back into biological systems as either plant food as compost and fertilizer, or supplemental animal feed. The Solar electrical systems are doing the same as from day one from the initial switch over from the utility, the savings are immediate. This same basic idea can be scaled up for whole communities, towns , cities and eventually the whole civilization. What makes this so unique is that you really do get out of the systems what ever you put into them and then some. Just like a human being is way more than the sum of their parts as the human mind can quantum leap thus transcend space and time itself.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-29-07 Earth Continuum 7 212
Today we are putting up food stocks from the excess produce from the gardens, mainly corn tomatoes, peas, and beans. Our kitchen basically looks like a laboratory. By doing this we are basically paying it forward, in other words putting stocks into our local food bank for a latter time. It is better to do this with a lot of the excess because the produce is way better than any we could go out and buy like say this Winter when a lot of this stuff is out of season, so incidentally we are saving money, and our health which is far more valuable than money.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-30-07 Earth Continuum 7 211
Wow! July is almost over, O My Gosh ! Well doesn't matter we about to have us a brand new August. Today we are doing some finished carpentry inside the Solarium. The hope is to have that space totally finished way before Winter time.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-31-07 Earth Continuum 7 210
Today I am analyzing, then looking at the big picture. This is the end of the secondth Month ( MOON) of Summer as pre-historic peoples would of viewed the dispensation of time a little differently than we do in these times, but nevertheless the seasons are still basically the same. The only real thing that has changed is how we humans interact with the seasons. The only real difference is a lot of people notice is the electric bill as various devices attempt to maintain a level of comfort as they transfer from an air conditioned office, or factory to an air conditioned car, to an air conditioned home and visa versa. For the most part modern humans depend on the mega super market warehouses to maintain their food stocks making them ready at local markets when needed no matter the season. But, now more and more people are becoming aware of the underlying deficiencies of such dependence on these systems in times of crisis, or for other health reasons when for instance, a nuclear power plant may have released some radioactivity into the fish supply, from some natural disaster as what happened a while back in Japan. A double whammy occurred where there was a lost of electricity, along with a healthy prolonged food supply being contaminated. Not to mention the deliberate contamination of food stocks in the attempts of prolonged preservation with preservatives, or other chemicals that have been long proven to cause cancer, diabetes, obesity heart disease and many other human diseases.
List of Chemical Preservatives | preservative
Ascorbyl palmitate
Benzoic Acid
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)
Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)
Calcium ascorbate
Calcium propionate
Calcium sorbate
Capryllic Acid
Dilauryl thiodipropionate
Erythorbic acid
Gum guaiac
Methylparaben
Potassium bisulfite
Potassium metabisulfite
Potassium sorbate
Propionic acid
Propyl gallatepy
Propylparaben
Sodium ascorbate
Sodium benzoate
Sodium bisulfite
Sodium metabisulfite
Sodium propionate
Sodium sorbate
Sodium sulfite
Sorbic Acid
Stannous Chloride
Sulfur dioxide
Thiodipropionic acid
Tochopherols
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-01-08 Earth Continuum 7 209
Okay, here we are August 2013 and we got grass, more grass, over run with grass, so guess what we are cutting grass. It rained so much there for a while that we really couldn't cut the grass in the garden plots, but now that the Sun has come out, well we are having a grass day. A lot of the fresh cut grass is simply tossed over the fence to the animals, while a lot more is recycled right back against the plants as mulch, and some is aggregated into the compost piles, to aid the cycle by aeration. We have noticed that while cutting the grass there are so many insect flying all over the place and the chickens in the trains are catch up in a frenzy catching bugs.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-02-08 Earth Continuum 7 208
In the very near future as roads and grids become way more smarter than they are today, a lot of things in that local commute will change and the faded memory of the way things are today will cease to exist. Highways and cars will become as one entity as both will be in constant contact with signals, energy, and information to the point that gasoline stations along the way will become obsolete, as well the speed zones as one enters a city, virtual smart signs everywhere tell the car how fast to run, or stop to stay within the limits as speeding tickets have also become obsolete, as with many other random traffic violations. Any drivers under the influence of any drug that impairs ability will not make it past the mobile sensors embedded all along the highways, and within cars themselves. Traffic accidents are for lack of a better expression non-existent.
Notes ---No billboards blocking that view, very few cops if any, cars will become very cheap, basically no insurance, no fuel with in route charging, no semi trucks, and who knows what else the freed up minds of the future will invent next? E bikes go 200 MPH in the future .. each rider has a special suit.. the bike lane is elevated about the main roads a bit. In the future people usually just ride for fun.. Yes just like now except in the near future way more accepted almost everywhere Bikes of any speed.. The major freeway type E bike fast lanes are just between major metropolitans. They almost can be described as BIKE TUBEs. Once one exits the BTs in another location the bike's lower range gears are used for local transit.
Sol-Era Log Entry 2013-03-08 Earth Continuum 7 207
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Today we are starting a site wide maintenance sweep, and do a basic systems test of all equipment.
The crops are still coming in, so the distribution of produce is still ongoing.
The best possible place you could find yourself in these times is the family farm. If you don't have a family farm to return to then that is very unfortunate and is something we as a culture should remedy within the land systems soon. A lot of the land is still tied up in government acquisitions after the many wars over land rights were being disputed. A lot of the land is still tied up in large corporations...etc. Ok some Data---
The
total U.S. land area is 2,271,343,000 acres. That is a lot of land. It is a big
nation. The federal government owns, manages, or controls about one third of
the American land. At one time we knew fairly precisely exactly or close to
exactly how much land the feds owned. For instance, in 1982 that figure was
768,532,000 acres, slightly over one third of all the U.S. But that was the
year that ANLCA, the Alaskan Native Land Claims Act, was passed, finally giving
tens of millions of acres of all the land in Alaska to the first Americans up
there, the native Americans, and to the state of Alaska. Because Alaska is so
huge, that instantly dropped the percentage of land owned by the federal
government down to around 26 percent. And now one of the things we find very
interesting in Washington, DC, to some degree, is that this data which you
think would be pretty easy to get is almost impossible to get. It has also
become a political football. BLM, the Bureau of Land Management, used to come
out annually with their book on land statistics in the United States, which was
pretty impeccable coverage of the amount of land ownership, who owned how much,
how much the Department of Transportation owned, how much the Army Corps of
Engineers owned. That stuff is no longer compiled in any one place. It is hard
to get that data.
Just as predicted you do find the projects in a state where there is way more coming in, than what is going out as in an offset equilibrium status very much in your favor, almost as if inside your own personal oasis. A sanctuary from the world outside inside your own energy honey bubble.
Organizing, organizing as in, organization is the key, and it is. This afternoon we are, organizing for upcoming project events as well getting ready for another overall photogenic exuberant extravaganza.
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