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Solar Energy - Maybe there is a God?

Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 11:50:53 AM PDT

Full disclosure.  Thirty years ago my mom was the secretary for a company called Northeast Carry in Hallowell, Maine.  This company sold wood stoves and bean sprouting devices and other shit that back to the earth types liked. Like Solar Collectors. (the amazing part is my parents didn't smoke weed or sell it, which is how i understand these types of places did business).  So, since no one really bought the stuff and they couldn't afford to pay my mom they just made her a partner in the company.  Like a Republican corporate takeover without the money!!  And after a few more years of us being broke (my dad was an organic carrot farmer...we were ahead of the curve on that as well...sold our farm to people who stopped growing carrots and starting growing weed..they went to jail) they sold the business.   It went belly up a few years later.  So, if you want to accuse me of being a shill for the solar power industry, fire away, but that is the extent of it.  (although I did make a solar collector to heat hot water for a science fair when i was in 6th grade).   To the diary.

I just installed one of these on my house.  It is a solar powered attic fan and it is one of the coolest things i've ever seen.  If the sun shines it sucks.  Sucks hot air out of my attic that is.  And thus keeps my house cooler.  It is like magic.  As I mentioned i'm very familiar with the idea of the sun heating up water.  But creating electricity?!   Why didn't we think of this sooner?    Yucca Mountain could be turned into a theme park.   Deserts in the middle east could be deserted and peaceful.   If you aren't understanding my excitement let me rephrase it.  The sun shines and i get electricity.  I'm beginning to rethink my atheism.   Perhaps this is God's way of saying "you stupid fucks!! Its the sun!! Its hot!!  Its always on!!  Jesus, you are fucking idiots!!".  

While I'm sure this will only result in humans creating solar powered weapons, for a few short years we should enjoy it.  Now i'm going up on my roof to pray.

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