How many ways can one capture the sun?
Solar
Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.
The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.
Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.
The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.
Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.
-Philip Larkin
(1922-1985)
On 7/18/06, I acquired an autographed copy of Power
with Nature by Rex A. Ewing, a pioneer in alternative energy solutions, and
I began researching off-grid power.
Fourteen years later, Rett and I have taken a giant step down the path
to energy independence.
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The system we had installed by Ohio Power
Solutions, LLC includes:
25 – 380 Watt SilFab Solar Panels – (9,500W)
1 – Pika/Generac 7.6 kW Inverter with 4 PV-Link Optimizers
3 – Panasonic 105’s (Batteries)
.
I’m charged! 😎
Summer Sun
Great is the sun,
and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
-Robert Louis
Stevenson
Vitamin D
We need the sun’s ultraviolet B rays to manufacture vitamin D. Our skin cells
manufacture this vitamin when the sun’s rays hit our skin.
Going
outside for 10 minutes at midday enables us to make about 10,000 international
units of vitamin D. Vitamin D from the sun protects us against many health
conditions, including an overactive immune system, heart disease, osteoporosis,
and prostate, breast and colon cancers. It also helps fight insomnia and
depression.
Invocation
Come, O Sun!
Awake and take the sky!
Helios, banish poor night,
Hyperion, exile the moon!
I call you to come out, come out!
Break to me your dawning.
Burn me with your music!
Enflame me with your song!
Who dares to stand in the wind and call
your name?
Only one who has heard the voice of the
dove
Rise from the valley floor,
Gently singing the dawn,
Softly cooing the morn.
Remember, O Eden
The brightness of the first day!
Invoke with me again
Fair Adam and golden Queen:
Awake, O Sun!
And take the sky!
-Robert Bode
Capture the Light!
The Human Eye (from The National Eye Institute)
First, light passes through the cornea (the
clear front layer of the eye). The cornea is shaped like a dome and bends light
to help the eye focus.
Some of this light enters the eye through an opening called the pupil. The iris (the colored part of the eye) controls how much light the pupil lets in.
Next, light passes through the lens (a clear inner part of the eye). The lens works together with the cornea to focus light correctly on the retina.
When light hits the retina (a light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye), special cells called photoreceptors turn the light into electrical signals.
These electrical signals travel from the retina through the optic nerve to the brain. Then the brain turns the signals into the images you see.
Some of this light enters the eye through an opening called the pupil. The iris (the colored part of the eye) controls how much light the pupil lets in.
Next, light passes through the lens (a clear inner part of the eye). The lens works together with the cornea to focus light correctly on the retina.
When light hits the retina (a light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye), special cells called photoreceptors turn the light into electrical signals.
These electrical signals travel from the retina through the optic nerve to the brain. Then the brain turns the signals into the images you see.
Be well! CPW
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