Liquid Jedi

This post reminds me of the introduction to " The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World"  by Jeff Goodell.  The text will be posted below for you to enjoy, but let me preface this by saying it is a stark, realistic fiction about what could very well happen to Miami, Fl... my home town.  This book is park of my summer time reading list that I decided to share with you.  As I sit at a beach reading about The End Times it occurs to me that this barrier island will more then likely not be here in a decade or so.  Will this guy care?  Most likely not. His descendants will enjoy exploring the antediluvian wasteland of the once Miami. Or will his descendants pass down a legend of the forbidden, cursed reef in their oral history, of the plume of pollution and radiation left by the Old Ones. Enough being dramatic. I'm going back to my book.  "AFTER THE HURRICANE hit Miami in 2037, a foot of sand covere...

Intro   This relational summary is brought to you by the Sun. Literally as I type I hear the soft hum of my new 1000W inverter as it shifts the 12 volt direct current from the photoelectric panels on the roof of my porch into the 110 volt alternating current which my laptop craves. Rooftop solar energy is listed as #10 in the "Drawdown" list of things to do to reverse global warming with an estimated 24.6 Gigaton anticipated reduction in CO2 by 2050 as it grows from 0.4 % global electric generation to an anticipated 7.0% contribution. How the authors of the drawdown list came about these numbers I neither know or care. Rather than babbling on about how great solar photovoltaic cells are and how putting them on the roofs of reed huts floating in lake Titicaca will save the world and enrich the lives of some undoubtably interesting people, I decided to do my own thing. Throughout this semester I have made it my project to learn about and put together a smal...