Surging the Sun in 2007
I’ve heard that New Year’s resolutions date back to Roman times, and that one of the most important first resolutions was simply to return borrowed farm equipment…how far we’ve come… Some say that resolutions should be modest, and reachable…while others would reach for the seemingly unreachable goal… While I like to consider myself pragmatic, I am fond of dreaming…and as all of our paths have crossed, we have all shared our ideas and dreams…so here’s one of mine.
Balance is important in most any undertaking, and we must reach while also mobilizing that first step that takes us to the next. I challenge us all (including myself) to a collective goal. Let’s make 2007 the year we begin to surge the sun. Surge the sun you say? Impossible. There’s that little thing called fission, and the sun is after all a star.
Photo courtesy of NASA
Let’s make the sun our rock star. I consulted my friend Google on a few calculations, and Google found a link to a story across the country that I found interesting – Boston Globe Link Dr. Knowledge –
“The sun radiates uniformly in all directions, mainly visible light and infrared radiation, and we can calculate the total amount of energy radiated by measuring the quantity of solar energy/second reaching every square meter of Earth and then multiplying that by the total surface area of a sphere with radius equal to the radius of Earth orbit. We get the astonishingly huge amount of 400 trillion trillion watts. To put this into a crazy context, every second the sun produces the same energy as about a trillion 1 megaton bombs! In one second, our sun produces enough energy for almost 500,000 years of the current needs of our so-called civilization. If only we could collect it all and use it!”
For 2007, we heartily encourage everyone we know, and everyone you know to harness your very own piece of the sun. Let’s surge the sun. Who knows, the impossible may be more within reach than any of us know?
No action is too large or too small…we each have an energy seed to plant, and sow…let’s keep that farm equipment out in the field! Some of your schools will be getting your very first system in the coming months…we can learn about solar, and plot our eventual home system…we can operate solar powered units in our hands…we can use the sun to charge our batteries…we can add solar elements in the garden that pump our water or light our paths in the evening…it’s our collective action that will surge the sun…
Keep sharing your surging stories…we have some big plans for 2007 including some new and exciting partners…welcome back from your holiday break, and Happy 2007 to all.
