Solar energy, will be playing a big role in our lives, as it has been playing for eons. Sustainable society is a need if we are to survive as a planet. There are many a facets to solar energy, solar electricity, solar heat and so on. Education is key factor in bringing Solar power to the doorsteps of every house and all people. This site will try to empower you, by bringing new about solar energy, the solar power blog, empoweringsolar. Be powerful! be off the grid.
Let Sun Shine On You.
Earth hour People from all over the world, who has electricity (There are people without such amenities, you Know) will turn off lights for one hour tomorrow. Just to show the awareness to enery conservation and the troubles our earth is facing.Earthhour 2008was a success and a lot of people had positive outlook on the results and the process. Even Google went Black. But I am sure we would have saved much more on a weekday but loose a lot in these economically hard times. But a Weekend is still fine and it will be easier for you to turn off lights and for for awalk or bike ride with the family. So think of our earth, think of people, and turn the lights off for an hour. You can watch the progress before and after that hour, how our fellow citizens do at Earthhour.org
Have a Carbon Neutral Future in Maldives, Yes the country most threatened by global warming, (facing the possibility of disappearing under water as the sea level rises) has declared that it is going to be carbon neutral within a decade. The guardian posted that the president of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, will unearth his plans to try and save his country today. "The president will formally announce the scheme - and make a plea for other countries to follow the Maldives' lead - this evening, following the world premiere of The Age of Stupid, a major new climate change film in which a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 looks at old footage from 2008 and asks why people didn't stop climate change when they had the chance." In the Maldives case, the man might be on a boat. Guardian
I have a few computers running at the same time and yes some of them could not be powered down and some could. Like my notebook had "do nothing" when the lid is closed ;( . But I have changed over the years. The computers that run all the time have become better by using power efficient components. For an example, one computer that provided DNS and Simple web services have gone down from 400 Watt to 60 Watt and being better in processor, memory and storage (Now uses flash drive). My notebook, whch is more powerfull than most desktops, now hibernates the moment the lid is closed or been left unattended and not being used for more than 5 minutes. Yes little things like this can save our planet and we should kick ourselves, for not doing it earlier. But there are thousands of other small things that we could do to help and save our planet.
You can pay a visit to Google co-founded Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) to learn about promoting a smarter, greener computing future. Simple things I mentioned and many more around the house can help to reach the goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 54 million tons per year by 2010 — the equivalent of taking 11 million cars off the road.
So Google blog posted about the following contest, go join and help to powerdown the planet. "The biggest obstacle we face is not technological, it's awareness. That's why we're excited that CSCI has launched the Power Down for the Planet video contest, a challenge to you and your friends to develop original and creative videos that educate, entertain, and inform others about the importance of energy efficient computing."
Earth hour
