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"More on solar power and pain Managing chronic pain accounts for $50 billion in health-care costs yearly in the USA.53 Of course, the cost in suffering is more significant. Could sunlight and vitamin D help to alleviate chronic pain? The study just mentioned, regarding the debilitated wheelchair patients, is impressive in that all five individuals in the study were able to leave their wheelchairs and live normally without pain. Chronic pain is now a pandemic and has birthed a plethora of advertised products that claim to relieve suffering." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.) "Although she is a fair-skinned blonde, she uses no sunscreen; the calcium absorbing and anti-cancer benefits of the vitamin D her body produces—under the solar power of the Hawaiian sun—are always in full force. 2. Her diet is totally devoid of animal proteins and the accompanying sulphur amino acids that cause decalcification of the bones. 3. That same diet, replete with greens, furnishes ample and easily absorbable calcium. It also furnishes vegetable proteins that are protective against osteoporosis. 4." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.) "Marc Sorenson's book, solar power, to carry toward completion the task to which we have devoted so much of our lives. H. Gordon Ainsleigh, D.C." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.) "Chalk up another victory for solar power! Vitamin D and hearing loss Some studies indicated that vitamin D deficiency could contribute to hearing loss in the elderly. Lack of vitamin D reduces microcirculation to the cochlea and impairs calcium metabolism, which may lead to hearing impairment.82-83 Mice with abnormal vitamin D-receptor genes suffer significant hearing loss, which lends support to the theory." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"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." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Efforts are under way to develop planes that can run on biofuels or solar power. Though widespread application of these solutions won't be possible for some time, a Brazilian company has manufactured a crop-duster plane that runs on ethanol, and the University of North Dakota's Energy and Environmental Research Center recently developed a carbon-neutral biofuel that could be suitable for aircraft use —in some respects, it's actually better than kerosene, which jet fuel is traditionally made from. This fuel will potentially cost less than petroleum-based aviation fuel." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Wind power, for example, has much less of an impact than solar power does. The Power Scorecard (http://www.powerscorecard.org/), developed by a coalition of environmental defense organizations, is an online assessment tool that How much does it cost? Usually, green power costs slightly more than nonrenewable power costs. Your utility will either add a cent or two to the standard per-kilowatt-hour rate or will charge an additional flat monthly fee of five to ten dollars. However, in some places, state-sponsored incentives and subsidies mean that buying green is actually cheaper." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "He's still getting his efforts off the ground, but so far two hundred homes are up and running on solar power. Micro-hydro mm In Nepal, only about 10 percent of the population is on the grid. The rest of the population goes without power, unless they produce their own. However, the mountainous country has plenty of fast-running streams, fantastic sources of energy. Small-scale water-power operations can only provide energy to limited areas, but this type of power is the cleanest, cheapest, and most practical form of energy available in those locations." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "One of the great discoveries was the relationship of solar power and plant intake," says Harding. "Part of the lesson learned is that along all rivers and wetlands, plants take in water by sunlight; you can pump water by sunlight. It's not really quite a work until the water's flowing." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Although the federal energy bill passed in 2005 provides for up to $2,000 in tax credits, a shortage of solar panels "has led to long waits and inconvenience for many Americans who are ready to spend $10,000 to $20,000 for residential solar power systems of 2,000 to 5,000 watts," according to the New York Times article. That Spain, Italy, and Portugal are also implementing solar incentive programs means that there will be greater incentive for more companies, particularly in the United States, to enter a potentially fertile international arena." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Those investments were in renewable energy like wind and solar power, energy-efficiency technologies, and updating old factories to eliminate emissions like hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to erosion of the ozone layer. The market has become so lucrative for the Chinese that the country is expected to open its own carbon exchange in Beijing by the end of 2007. "China is facing a choice to either go one way on its environmental path or another," commented Yingling Liu, with the World Resources Institute's China Watch project. "The choices are now being made...." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"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." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"We are also working with Honor the Earth, an indigenous rights organization, to send reservation youth from the United States to work with their indigenous counterparts in Chiapas to install solar power on local health clinics. 7 Coffee, Land Mines, and Hope NICARAGUA, 2001 Jose Gonzales was a typical twelve-year-old—bright, curious, and just a little too mischievous for his own good. Jose peeked into the back room of his small wooden house in San Juan del Rio Coco, Nicaragua, which his coffee-farming parents had rented to a stranger for a little extra income during those hard times." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"She was taking notes and asking me all sorts of questions because she's going to change her house to solar power. She was asking me what kind of car she should buy and stuff like that. It's an example that people are now realizing, 'Oh my god, I have real options.'" We asked Daryl if the younger generation was open to being socially responsible? "That's something I'm optimistic about. I read some articles that say the youth of today are apathetic, and I beg to differ." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "I said, 'Could we put some solar power into that little school? It's right on the equator.' And he said, 'Sure. Give me the dimensions of it.' He put together an array of equipment that would give light and power to that facility. And it was going to cost about eight thousand dollars. We raised that money through the church. "As I traveled around, wherever I went, I told the story about the orphanage—and how you can use solar for anything and the wonderful thing about it is that it generates on site the amount of power needed." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "And this is an exciting thing for us, because solar power makes the difference. And the kids see this and they become advocates of it and a lot of them are patterning their careers to follow it up with one thing or another. In fact, we've got a couple of the young people who have finished their schooling and have come back to work for us now—both African and American." Sounds like a grear initiative to us; is it well supported? "I get frustrated in the United States because we haven't received the support we could use. But little by little people catch the vision." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"I equipped ^ the house with solar power; it has a backup gener- Humanitarian and envi- ator that runs on biodiesel. ronmental concerns are I also pick all-organic ingredients in my food, one and the same. ancj use non-toxic products in my house. I am actually living within my belief system. And that's really important to me, because, in a sense, the strongest effect you can have is a personal one. When people come to my house, they witness that this lifestyle isn't just nice in the abstract. Everything actually works well, and it's beautiful." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Photosynthesis in plants provides all food and fossil fuels, winds blow from unequal solar heating, and water flows in part because solar evaporation lifts water molecules into the air. "Solar power" refers to ways to tap sunlight directly. In 1883 a French experiment demonstrated that sunlight captured with a parabolic mirror could heat water enough to power a small steam engine. Solar water heaters were first used in the United States in the 1890s. In 1948 a house in Dover, Mass." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Most uses of this form of solar power were isolated installations such as lighthouses or artificial satellites, or small appliances such as watches and calculators, although several experimental automobiles have been powered this way. More recently homes have used solar panels for power. These are usually connected to the local power grid; they sell any excess power to the grid and buy power when the sun is not shining. Larger installations based on this concept have also been connected to the power grid, starting in 1994 in Spain." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"UPDATE: Following the energy crisis in the early 1970s, entrepreneurs rushed to develop solar power projects to free America of its oil dependency. Many of them went broke or were bought out by large corporations, including the big oil companies, as revealed in the 1980 story. By 1994, Time magazine was ready to announce a "sunny forecast" for solar energy and Shell International Petroleum in London predicted renewable power, particularly solar, would dominate world energy production by 2050. By 1996, the first large, commercially competitive solar power projects were underway." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"Summer is a time to recharge those internal batteries with solar power. Keep the Fire balanced with Water inside and out, and keep the body loose, getting good exercise. It is a time for growth and coming forth. It's a season for good times too, and vacations. For many, it's a season to prepare for going back to school or work. Late Summer: Seasonal Transitions IN THE FIVE ELEMENT THEORY, there are five seasons whose nature is related to the five elements. Late summer is correlated with the element Earth." - Elson M. Haas, Staying Healthy With the Seasons (Get the book.)

"I'm not convinced that active solar power may be anything but an interim stopgap in the Long Emergency that will follow the end of the fossil fuel age. I have run a modest solar electric operation for four years at a remote Adirondack vacation house. We're off the grid there, unable to hook into any public utility power lines. We have four 50-watt solar panels feeding a six-cell deep-cycle battery bank connected to a 2,400-watt inverter, which turns the direct current (DC) from the batteries into alternating current (AC) that normal appliances run on." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "There is a set of erroneous popular notions to the effect that renewable energy systems such as solar power, wind power, and the like are available as freestanding replacements for our fossil-fuel-based system, that they are pollution-free and problem free —that renewables represent something akin to perpetual motion, a gift from the sun. The operation of a solar electric system, like the one I run on an Adirondack lake, does not itself produce pollution, but the manufacturing of the components certainly does." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The wind power inquiry eventually would lead back to the same place as the one on solar power: Can these technologies be detached from the fossil fuel platform supporting them? Sure, it is possible to generate electricity using wind turbines. Yes, European nations have made major investments in "wind farms." Denmark was getting 18 percent of its electricity from wind in 2003, the most per capita of any country. Germany was producing more than 10,000 megawatts from its installations, Spain more than 3,000." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "For example, lithium-based batteries work well in laptop computers and LED lights, but so far they have not been economically scalable for household solar power systems. This is one of the main reasons that electric cars have been such a flop during the past decade: The batteries could not be improved to make them significantly less bulky or lighter, or to increase the travel range between charges." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Among the adopters are Johnson & Johnson, Lowe's, Toyota, BJ's Wholesale Club, and UPS.43 Johnson & Johnson, for example, recently installed a 500-kilowatt solar array at a facility located in Titusville, New Jersey. "Incentive programs," states Johnson & Johnson's John Subacus in the GristMagazine.com report, "made the project financially neutral, and we felt it was the best time to jump in and do something good for the environment." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

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