Archive for Technology
Ocean Wave Energy: Limitless Energy Gift
Posted by: | Comments2009-06-01
Good Morning Everyone!
In all the discussions about renewable and sustainable energy, how often have we heard anything about Ocean Wave Energy? I know I haven’t.
This morning there’s a really informative story in McClatchy News detailing the fact that the current proposed budget will cut research funding for this type of sustainable energy source in favor of an 86% increase in funding for solar and wind.
The article goes on to say that this technology is already being used in Europe and could be online in Puget Sound by 2011.
Seems to me that with America being blessed with two enormous lengths of coastline, and most of each coastline having the highest population densities, that this is a no brainer.
The technology was developed by Seabased AB, a Swedish company; and has projects considered, planned or installed in Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Ireland and Norway. There have also been discussions about projects in South Korea, the Philippines, India and Canada’s Maritime provinces.
Still another company,OPT,is under contract with the US Navy right now for a similar technology to supply the Navy world wide.
I’ve traveled the United States by car many, many times and have seen the windmills. They are NOT attractive and they do change ground weather, not to mention being at the whimsy of the wind. Wind power has it’s application in small projects, to be sure, but certainly not the large scale of supplying electricity to all of America.
Similarly, solar’s draw backs are those batteries and solar panels. They’re fine on roof tops, but to cover large portions of our deserts again means messing with the ecology of the desert and the life forms there. In defined applications, sun is appropriate, just as wind; but here’s a solution that promises big return for the long haul.
And get this, the technology is – simple. Holy Toledo!
Let’s keep it simple. Use our dollars wisely and put them where it makes Good Common Sense.
If you’d like to make comment to the White House about redirecting the dollars in sustainable energy research back to ocean wave technology, you can do so directly . I already have.
Put your two cents worth in! This is your government, and it’s your tax dollars, so participate!
Thanks for reading!
Kath
We Can Solve It
Posted by: | Comments2008-07-18
Hello Everyone,
Today a friend sent me a speech by Al Gore. You can listen to it here.
My comments are confined to the concept that we can solve anything we put our minds to. While I understand the necessity of addressing the negative, let’s keep it in perspective. The “negative” that we perceive as such is simply the platform from which we can be very clear about what it is that WE NOW NEXT.
Energy independence is certainly in the top three of what we now want, to be sure. I am certain that we want clean, cheap energy as well, that is available to everyone like the air is. These things are within our grasp if we STOP FOCUSING ON THE PROBLEM AND REFOCUS ON THE SOLUTIONS.
Yesterday I watched a marvelous movie, In the Shadow of the Moon, a Ron Howard film about how America put a man on the moon. We were inspired to reach beyond our grasp by President John Kennedy. When Kennedy announced that he was calling on American for a “new enterprise” we did not have the technology at hand. We had to reach into the infinite, within ourSelves, and create the solutions along the way to Apollo 11′s successful flight.
Indeed we are at a place in America where a “new enterprise” is needed. Many in fact, but it is by blessed way of the powerful negative that we have arrived at these new conclusions.
Each of us can contribute to this new enterprise by envisioning what it is we want and by ceasing immediately from the constant dwelling on what is wrong. Write to your chief news media and tell them you want to hear what is going right. Tell them you want in headline news, the good progress and cooperation that are happening in key areas. Tell them you will turn them off, if they persist in beating the over tired drums of doom and gloom.
We get what we are focused upon by the Law of Attraction. Imagine if we were told daily briefings on the progress of hydrogen fuels, solar and even new promising ideas such as sound. Can you imagine what new ideas that might spark in yourself? Imagine how much more uplifting it would be to go to bed at night with a new promising idea in your head?
America, you have to speak up. Now is the time. Stop settling for inferior, sleazy, low quality in anything and everything. Turn off the mind-numbing stuff and turn on the exciting, inspiring, and motivational things that enliven you, which enlivens us as a nation.
Write your senators and representatives. Tell them you want to hear of non-partisan progress in energy, the economy, the quality of our food, and whatever else you wish to see changed. Identify clearly the change you would like to see. Add not only your voice and vote, but add your vibrational thought energy to it by seeing it as a completed creation of good for everyone.
We alone get to choose what we think about. Choose carefully what you wish to see. Nurture that like you would a new baby. Feed it love, feel its joy, adore the people who are contributing and appreciate every single step of the way until its birth into reality.
I applaud Al Gore for taking the lead along with T. Boone Pickens in spearheading creative and clean solutions for America. Let’s keep it positive. Let’s keep it creative. Let’s keep it non-partisan. I call on America for this great new enterprise – recreating America anew.
Here’s the video of Al Gore’s speech followed by Boone Pickens speech.
Check out www.wecansolveit.org
This is Applied Spirituality in Action!
Thanks for Reading!
Kath
American Ingenuity
Posted by: | Comments2008-03-05
Good Day Everyone!
Thinking about things lately has caused me to be grateful for 4 years of Latin. I went to public schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania where Latin was offered. I had two great teachers who really made translating Vigil, Pliny, and Caesar’s Commentaries fun and very enlightening.
Today I use Latin principally for getting the original meaning of a word – its etymology. If you aren’t familiar with ancient Latin or Greek, it is improbable that you know how far afield our modern day words and our common meaning that we associate with them have strayed from the origin of the word.
Take the word ingenuity for example. According to Dictionary.com ingenuity is:
| 1. | the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity. |
| 2. | cleverness or skillfulness of conception or design: a device of great ingenuity. |
| 3. | an ingenious contrivance or device. |
Miriam-Webster.com is quite similar:
2 a: skill or cleverness in devising or combining; b: cleverness or aptness of design or contrivance3: an ingenious device or contrivance
Now, check out the entomology of the word: ingenium from the Latin. The root words for ingenium are ‘in’ meaning within and genus which is birth. So the original word means
‘innate’ or ‘inborn‘ genius.
So what is innate or inborn? Our creativity. Our capacity for ingeniusness, which comes from our own innate Godchip: Our direct link to the Infinite Possibilities.
Years ago a friend said, “You have to ask the right question.” Truly.
When you look again at the word ingenuity, our current definitions imply with the word an invention – a thing, a contraption that we made or invented; but the origin of the word implies that it is not a thing but rather an inborn talent to create.
So let me, right here and right now, say that American Ingenuity is our innate ability to be creative. Our inborn capacity to seek out a new solution that has never been seen on planet earth by first desiring something (usually our freedom) from some perceived constraint and then our natural, inborn ability to allow that solution to come to us as first and idea, and then a thing if that is required.
American Ingenuity is a term I grew up with. We always had a way to make things better.
We knew we could; we did. There was nothing facing us that we couldn’t create our way out of and towards a better way.
Thinking about our famous American Ingenuity, I began to wonder why we had gotten ourselves into such a fix with respect to oil. I can’t think of anything that Americans hate more than feeling we have no options. There is always a way. Always.
So I started rummaging around online and saw a few signs of our great inventive and creative natures. For starters find out how to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel to run a car.
Of course creativity is not limited to just Americans. They are rolling an air car off the assembly line in India. Where are you GM, Ford and Chrysler?
The point to this little excursion into ingenuity with respect to cars and oil is that our ability to create solutions is infinite and above all inborn with each of us.
It’s the Godchip in each an every one of us that has the answer. You with your free will must apply your focus to ask ‘how can I?’ rather than spending your energies fighting against what is. Turning your focus towards what is wanted is the first step and then staying that focus with free will discipline on the creativity; allowing IT in as IT guides you towards your answer.
The fun is watching it unfold, like in a treasure hunt. Each day something comes in because you have asked and now Law of Attraction can bring it to you as you allow and are looking for the stepping stones.
American Ingenuity has been sleeping. We have been lost in fear of this and fear of that. Every time you allow ‘what is’ to occupy your thoughts, what ”might be’ is delayed and postponed.
And, someone else, who is actively pursuing the “how can I” mode is allowing in the solutions.
Come on America! Turn off that blinkin‘ TV and get busy creating the Nation we envision.
Now what if…
Thanks for reading!
Kath
The New View for 2008
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2007-12-15Happy Birthday Blogger
Posted by: | Comments2007-08-25
Good Day Everyone!
I really wish I understood the whole Internet and blog world better. I’m supposing that in time it will seep in like water under the door.
Today I go to blog and find out it’s Blogger.com‘s 8th birthday. Then I read that if I click on this I will find that….and I end up at Steven Job’s blog. Well, I’m in good company!
There’s so much out there to read. How do people find time to live life if they’re busy reading every one’s blog, I wonder. It’s all I can do to get this daily blog done in a thoughtful and meaningful way, to me.
I love the technology. I am stunned daily by what has been created and wonder what yet is to come. Back in the late 90′s as things were gearing up, true to my Crab nature, I held back and watched from the sidelines waiting to understand what this “Internet thing” was and how it could impact me and my life.
Then one day a slightly nutty friend of mine, ex Navy Seal with one wire that seems to fly around in his head and make a connection every now and again said, “Kath, it’s pure consciousness.” Well, I was in. It made perfect sense to me in those terms. Consciousness to consciousness we can now communicate and share what we think, feel, see, learn, know, fantasize, create, doubt, fear. Wow.
I think now, it had to come along because it is representative of the cornerstone of Who We Really Are – Free Spirits all of us. This wondrous thing, the Internet, is that tool to circumvent anyone who would edit or censure us, forever. Now that is a worthy invention. I think, too, it is simply another step in the evolution of man returning to full connection with Source. It’s on the tractor beam path back home.
Think about it. Instantly we can e-mail a thought (with this tool), text message with our phones (another tool) and see videos and pictures or hear stories, lectures, news (with another tool), but what is really close is the near-instantaneous exchange of energy in these various forms.
Next step or future steps? The instantaneous telepathy of the same information without the tools. We can all do that now, of course, but we don’t believe it. We doubt that that flash of intuition is “real”. So we pick up the phone or write the e-mail to confirm…yes, you do it! However, you already – KNOW.
We are such amazing creatures. We have such abilities that we were all talked out of long ago, but they are there dormant or active in mild ways. As the consciousness of “us” expands and rises to accept Who We Really Are, we will begin to believe and listen to those extraordinary talents within and stop doubting that we are, each and everyone, God having a human adventure and these “talents” are not, in fact extraordinary, but ordinary.
I’ve recently come across a television series that I’ve check out from the San Diego County Library called “The 4400“. It’s a wonderful peek into the writer’s imagination of Who We Really Are and are trying to realize. I am really enjoying the show and salute the writer-creator, Scott Peters. Scott is truly letting Source flow through him as is Steven Jobs and everyone and anyone who had anything to do with creating the web and Blogger – a special thanks to Google for hosting my blog free of charge supporting our freedom of speech!
Well Done to you all and my personal and sincere – Thank YOU!
We are the Creators. Stop looking elsewhere, you are God.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
