The Future of Solar Energy

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

With the current concentration on global warming, the existence of which is denied by only a few naysayers, developments in solar power are moving at a pace to fill the need for efficient green solutions to our seemingly insatiable desire for energy. The failure of solar power to be more widely ...

Oil, Energy, and Congress

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Now that Congress has recessed for the end of the summer, what are we to make of the energy situation? At this point, I'm getting tired of hearing that $4.00 gasoline is good for me. How can it be good when Americans are spending less of their money on other ...

The Top 10 Most Wanted Toys For Christmas 2008

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Christmas is coming faster than you think! Each year the same thing happens to millions of parents, when they have to tell their little one that "Santa didn't have time to deliver this year". Instead of running around like a headless chicken trying to find that special toy during the Christmas ...

The War on Drugs

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The "War on Drugs" is a term that having worked as a Texas peace officer but also being much more liberal and open-minded than most officers has really troubled me. And, after seeing the astounding report that almost 1% of the entire United States population is currently in jail or ...

Cell Phone Radiation Linked to Autism

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

For the last few decades, the use of cell phones has been on the rise across the country and around the world. With the advent of micro technology and satellites, mobile phones have gotten smaller and smaller. In fact, some have reached the point where big people actually have trouble ...

The Health Care Crisis

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Everywhere we turn today we are bombarded with news about the current health care crisis in the United States. We are inundated with the negative aspects of our medical system on TV, the radio and newspapers. In Michael Moore's docudrama "Sicko" our health care system is portrayed as a beast ...

Solar Energy Today

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

We have definitely only scratched the surface of solar energy and with each year our technology gets smaller and faster and so do our efforts at using solar energy. What better fuel alternative than that great big ball of fire is the sky that won't be depleted any time soon. This ...

Diamonds, Gemstones, Lumps of Coal – Another Strike at the Dragon’s Soul

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

This news to China is another diamond of the moral lessons from God or pure living, or Buddha himself. The way we live, is the way we die. Buddha had a following not because what he said, but how he lived such a holy serene life as no other holy ...

History To Solar Power Energy

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago." These are words of Sir George Porter (December 1920 - August 2002), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, which today is a reality. The ...

Solar Cell Electricity – How It Works

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

We have all seen solar cell electricity generators by now, blue or black panels dotted around, silently generating pollution free electricity. But how do they do it? The key to understanding how they do it lies in the chemistry of the elements used. Each panel is an array of individual cells. ...