Time to go solar?

 CAPTURING  YOUR SUNSHINE

The sunlight was almost annoying as it streamed through the kitchen window.  Thoughts drifted to the new solar-powered flashlight/phone charger I received as a holiday gift.  Should I. Clip it on tho my belt or coat and get out and walk around/. Well, I didn’t and today I feel a bit sad about that.  It was an opportunity missed.  

on the other hand—which is the “other” hand?  My thoughts  about solar power swerved directly into the path of seeking peace and joy...so let’s shine a little light on that path today.

How often do I appreciate the sun?  Most days I think and yet  whoa Nelly let’s humble up a bit.  

For instance, I didn’t realize just how little  I really know/knew about solar power and its potential.  Let’s start with the big truth that needs to get out.

Enough energy from the sun hits the earth in one hour to power the planet for an entire year.  Wait a second...read that again...enough energy from the sun  hits the earth in an hour to power the Earth for a year.  We fight wars over fuel in the ground.  We argue about  how to move this fuel—who has the right to discover it—sell it—and what the impact of the wars and jobs  might have here and around the globe.  We wait millions of years before the fuel is ready and we have based  a person-centered transportation and status system around the use of this fuel and sunlight takes about 10 minutes to get here.  We hear about how solar power is not efficient because we don’t know how to collect and store it?  Well ... solar cells and battery systems  are improving dramatically  and we can now capture about  22% of the sunlight that hits a lot of the most  modern solar cells.  So it would take a whole five hours to power the planet  for a year....damn.  Even with today’s technology with its inefficient nature the number of people using solar power has just about doubled in the last three years and the more people who have “seen the light” our use must  get better and cheaper.  The  break even point for investing ion solar has dropped to under  a decade in almost all instances and that means its becoming a short term investment with a long term  gain. 

There’s a link at the bottom of this entry that gives some more fun facts and  is well worth the read.  

So...what’s the link  to seeking peace and joy?  

the sun is a positive  gift.  How many positive  gifts are we exposed to each day and yet  we just let them stream though and sometimes even ldefine as annoying?  How  many times do we  try to hold our sunlight back to keep the energy for ourselves when these gifts could be the driving force for others who seek peace and joy or are trying to grow their gifts?  Do we build communities built to receive. Positive behaviors and enhance their impact or do we focus of the fuel that  can be controlled, bought and sold, and treated as a finite possession?  Do we tell the stories that could continue to lift each other up and therefore build the “batteries” of culture needed to maximize everyone’s positive gifts?  Do we understand that the sun doesn’t. Always shine where you are, yet if we build. A sharing network it is always shining somewhere?  In seeking peace and joy do we understand that someone somewhere in hour network has sunshine to share or needs some we have to share?  With a solar cell  we can bring the. Light of day into the dark of night.  How much do we try to be a solar cell?  The thing about solar cells is that they need to be open and receptive....can we be open and receptive?  

Well it looks as if there might be enough sun to charge my device again today...so maybe  I could capture some sun to share when someone needs the light that my solar phone charger and flashlight. Can use.... 

To those who have shared their  sunshine...thank you and to those who feel the darkness... reach out...there is enough sunshine  for all of us.  https://chariotenergy.com/chariot-university/solar-energy-solar-panels-facts/