Local legislators and media personalities across the country, are helping to devalue and degrade the average Americans quality of life. From coast to coast they’re working with corporate interest to with hold water and pensions in Detroit, refuse the grid to innovative solar energy producing homes from California and Arizona clear to the east coast, and who knows what else they’re working against us on.
For years, Brian Williams, the anchor of NBC Nightly News, has claimed to have been aboard a military helicopter that was forced to land after being hit with an RPG during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He’s now copping to the fact that the story is not true. Source: NBC Anchor Brian Williams Cops to Fibbing About Iraq War Story
On CBS Philadelphia on February 5, 2015, radio host Chris Stigall plays former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s retelling of Hillary Clinton’s phony sniper fire story from the 2008 presidential campaign
Lies, and more lies coupled with corruption, from top down throughout US government.
Recently I’ve made it a point to catch and keep up with my local media. When I think of the local media today, I think of a down-home, more caring version of the corrupt corporate media, just a tad bit truer than what we get as a nation or globally. What I would expect, I guess from the local media personalities, that not only have to live here, with the locals they smile, giggle and grin at everyday over, police brutality, roads, tragic failing infrastructure, resource allocation, climate what if’s, as well as economic plans, schemes and much, much more. I mean they live here, yet they’re actually complicit with their own demise, as they spew out, faulty, filtered, garbage news bits, gauging questions and advertisement from start to finish.
Just yesterday they ran this article titled ‘Philadelphia City Council Candidate Hijacks Domain Names To Steer Voters From His Opponent’ with, what I gathered to be a population gauging question, ‘Is this ok?’ basically trying to access the populations moral compose. the story went as such, City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson’s, Democratic Primary challenger, Ori Feibush, bought the domain names representing the councilman.
So, when you type in KenyattaJohnson.com, .org or .net, you will be redirected to Feibush’s campaign page.
“Hopefully folks will be able to go and find more information my platform and how I will move 2nd council district and city of Philadelphia forward.”
Eyewitness News went to Feibush’s campaign office, but he was not available for an interview.
This is the real estate developer’s first time running for a political office.
His campaign manager did give a statement, saying in part: “Our decision to redirect domain names associated with Councilman Johnson to www.orifeibush.com was a simple measure to let voters know that there is a better option to represent their voice.”
Political expert Bill Rosenburg says, “If you think about campaign and dirty tricks this is nothing really new.”
Rosenburg is a political science professor at Drexel University.
He says there is nothing illegal about cyber squatting someone’s name, but it could backfire against Feibush.
“You have to make a determination about doing little tactics like this, whether that is a serious enough person to represent people in council.”
Rosenburg’s advice for future politicians,”You should go out and buy all your .com’s, .net’s, the dot-everything to protect your brand.” — Source & video:
My first thought was this is fraud, another young criminal trying to find his way home into politics, and I was right. I don’t know if it’s considered fraud to anyone else but it’s damn sure fraud to me. Where we should be electing people with integrity to serve folks and denouncing Ayn Rand type greedy selfish philosophies from government, our local media is gauging how much malfeasance we will allow for. I mean there was no other reason for CBS to ask the question, we all know the answer to it, it’s foul, border line fraud, a definite lack of honor and integrity.
Needless to say that if, City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, who happens to be considered black, had done the same thing to his challenger, Ori Feibush, who happens to be considered white, the question would not have even been asked. Hell, the title would have changed, to ‘Councilman commits fraud, lacks integrity,’ I almost have to think, that the real question being asked here was, if it’s ok for a white candidate to defraud a black incumbent in the year 2015, and I guess we will see.
My point is common to most of us, that after a few days of keeping up with my local media, it’s obvious that they are not a kinder, more caring version of the criminal corporate mega entertainment cabals, posing as news or free press outlets. The talking head personalities, being propped up in front of teleprompters to smile, laugh, giggle and grin the elite’s message of ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy.’ go on back to sleep, we got this till your end, down our throats all day, everyday, are possibly more dangeous than those who spew their polarizing charms worldwide. If not worse, at least very much the same. The difference being only of the illusion, that they care for at least the region they reside in, what’s going on in it, how, and why. They don’t deserve our communities allegiance or admiration, instead a good ousting and our sternist amount of disdain.
That being said we don’t only have a utterly corrupted media, local or otherwise, we have a totally corrupted 2 party 1 agenda political system nationally as well as locally to complement, and sustain it.
Do you recall what the NJ Borough of Helmetta Police Department Special Police Officer Richard Recine said on film.
You know, the trickle-Down Tyranny statement, “Obama has decimated the friggin Constitution, so I don’t give a damn. ’Cause if he doesn’t follow the Constitution, we don’t have to.” I’ll drop the video down below and press on through my point.
The Helmetta, borough council promised an investigation but instead of doing that, or in spite of that,
the borough council decided to propose an ordinance to ban people from taking photographs and videos inside public buildings, with certain exclusions. This act of safe guarding the state, decimates the rights of the people to know and act on what is known. This is what renders the people powerless in their own governance.
Under the proposed ordinance, a permit would have to be secured and approved by the borough before any photographs or videos could be taken on the interior of any public building. The proposed ordinance does not apply to the taking of pictures and videos at any meetings which are held in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act.
Is this what America has become? So called authority figures, from police officers to government officials, who hold offices and positions in which they are supposed to serve the public, instead blatantly state that the obvious, that they will do whatever they want and could care less about a Constitution? Should we expect and except local lawlessness from the very agencies who are supposed to uphold and safe guard the law?
Well I do not consent and withdraw participation. I’ll find other ways to co-operate with my fellow Americans.
I do very much suggest Cooperatives and Voluntarism.
Some commentary:
NJ Cop — If Obama doesn’t Follow Constitution, we don’t have to Follow Constitution
Scientists say that with manmade disasters piling up, mankind’s hurtling down the path of self-destruction. They believe humanity is closer than ever before to doomsday and has set the metaphorical Doomsday Clock to only 100 seconds to midnight – an indication that the threat level is critical. However, they also say that every right choice from individuals to global leaders can make a difference to the fate of the world. — Visit the Carte Blanche official site: https://mnet.dstv.com/show/carte-blanche
We live in a contract driven society that exploits and even assumes our choice of participation at Age of Majority, instead of contracting with us, we’re asked to just accept what amounts to cradle to grave fraud. So there’s no wonder that it was built on the backs of involuntary human capital chattel slaves and sustained on the backs of voluntary human capital wage slaves. Could an Age of Majority Contract Sign-in hold this corrupted system honest, beholden to new contracts and opt outs.
How many people do we have to reach to create a tipping point ?
The magic number needed to enact significant social change is 10% according to social psychology research. I have heard as little as 3%. That means we have a short window to head off any further centralization of power worldwide.
We need a new economic system if we, our children, and our grandchildren are going to live in a just, humane, peaceful, and sustainable world. The transition can be envisaged as a democratic, nonviolent restructuring of basic economic institutions.
Although workplace democracy should be the norm throughout society, it needn’t be the case that all businesses conform to this norm.
My thoughts are, if we can get behind one sound, decent idea, we can’t be stopped !
My freedom loving, anarchical heart, makes the case for Direct Democracy, because it’s an achievable transition to self governance and a means to decentralize the present power base. Ultimately we are all self governed, when we come together in congregation for whatever reasoning, outside of special circumstances, it is natural that the majority rules, try stopping them. Those special circumstances, involving choice and cases of life and death need a voluntarist type touch, and should at some point be afforded just that, but we will by no means reach a state of voluntarism, while being ruled over by .1 percent.
First off, I’ll say we are practicing a worldwide Direct Democracy, all day everyday online through our likes and dislikes, comments and lack there of. Keep it real, they’re listening, watching and collecting the data that is your direct response to their actions or lack there of. When you speak up, even their stock markets respond. Imagine what a concrete model could create ?
Direct Democracy promises to eliminate corruption, dismantle the two-party system, and return power to the people!
When the people have the power, we can direct our governance, education, quality of our lives as we aspire. Today the two parties act as one, for the benefit of the corporate model, behind a smoke screen of polarizing dissent. Radical change under the two party monopoly was electing Obama, our first black president. The new radical change, will be electing our first woman, Hillary of course and if there is not enough support for her, we will be thrown the bone of Rand Paul and an Audit of the FED. Rand is not his father and I wouldn’t trust the auditors of the FED. So, I reject our unseen plutocracies rigged radical change, as more of the same manipulative madness. I instead propose a change in the broken, obsolete system, that is so corrupted, that it has even legislated itself the right to lie, to it’s American constituency and called it spin. What more reason would I need to deduct, that We the People, need get the middle man and his infinite financing out of government.
Today we are governed, not by consent, but ruled by the assumption of consent and out right force or fear of force. An informed public is needed for Democracy to flourish and break loose from this fraudulent grip of fear. I propose that we inform each other and take the reigns of our own futures and generations to come, by excluding the middleman structured in our governance.
I could go on and on, but would rather you checked the video and did your own research, discerning and thinking for yourself.
Direct Democracy Party Info
How technology can enable everyday democracy :
Ben Knight is part of a cooperative social enterprise building Loomio, an online tool for collaborative decision-making being used by thousands of people in more than 20 countries. Ben will be picking through ideas around how technology can enable everyday democracy.
AMERICA is OVERTHROWN, DECENTRALIZE The POWER BASE
Solutions: The Peer-to-Peer Economy
Creative Destruction or Destructive Creation
Very simply put, united we can shape a better quality of existence for all, by coming together and directing or spending. The like minded spending together, to direct and fashion the growth of our society and a better quality of life for all.
As we find ourselves once again, in another cycle of destruction, fostered, and manufactured out of the malfeasance or careful planning of a very few, I’m suggesting we hijack from that very few’s destruction, the creation of a new value system and thus the motivation and shape of the new reality an actually civil-civilization, just by changing what and how we value.
I link to a 30 sec video, ‘PREVIEW: Moving Your Money’ via Michael Shuman, an article from ‘Innovate Excellence, called ‘Creative Destruction or Destructive Creation?’ and a corbettreport video named ‘Millionaires for Carbon Control!’
My expressed purpose being to remind you that we, the like minded can Re-hijack, Re-occupy and stop the very few elite from dictating the quality of life achieved and afforded to us and our generations to come.
Moving Your Money
How many people do we have to reach? The magic number needed to enact significant social change according to social psychology research is 10% . That means we have a short window to head off any further centralization of power worldwide.
We have been entering some perilous times recently and I can’t imagine when Joseph Schrumpter outlined his groundbreaking efforts for explaining “creative destruction” he or anyone else, could image this being flipped around to what we are facing more today, that of “destructive creation”.
Schrumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through new innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead into higher levels of economic development and welfare. At the same time recognizing that this destroyed a few of the incumbents to the benefits of many more newcomers and increasing value creation for broader society.
Today it seems we are caught in the reverse of this- the process of “destructive creation”- where it benefits a few rather than the many. This sets out often to destroy or greatly diminish the usage value of existing products and services before it is optimal to actually do so, and in the process incurring often significant costs not taken into account at the time. These unforeseen issues have consequences that negatively affect parts of society not foreseen or contemplated at the time.
The shift has placed the emphasis on the role of destruction rather than creation in driving innovation activity. This is getting uncomfortable, innovation then becomes not so good for you perhaps? This is becoming the game for a few to make money, to corner markets, to dominate and wanting to achieve monopolistic positions and not so worried over the wealth creation aspects of creating jobs, building communities, cherishing certain values. We need to be on guard in understanding the fundamentals within innovation as it should advance for the good of society, not be actually working to its detriment. Actually who is benefiting from the distribution of new wealth? The developed world is seeking desperately ways to regain growth but it needs to be more equitable, not in the hands of a few that determine our choices but increasingly seem unaccountable for their actions.
Millionaires for Carbon Control! – #NewWorldNextWeek
Published on Jan 22, 2015
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.
Solutions: Guerrilla Gardening
The problems are obvious: food safety scandals, the death of family farming, food supply insecurity, the revolving door between corporate lobbyists and government regulators, and many more. The soluion should be equally obvious: rolling up our sleeves and getting in the garden. Join us today as we explore this simple, natural solution to one of our most fundamental problems.
President says “enough is enough” when it comes to the large telecom companies blocking cities from starting their own, locally-controlled networks
In what advocates of locally-owned and operated broadband networks are calling “a great moment for the principle of local self-reliance,” President Obama has announced his intention to fight back against efforts by the telecommunications industry to block the building or improvement of municipal internet networks.
“These prohibitions on municipal broadband were passed lightning-fast through state legislatures with tons of AT&T and cable company money behind them and they are blatantly anti-public.” —Holmes Wilson, Fight for the FutureCiting places like Cedar Falls in Iowa, Tennessee’s Chattanooga, and Lafayette, Louisiana—cities “which have Internet speeds nearly 100 times faster than the national average and deliver it at an affordable price”—Obama said it is time to end corporate opposition to the initiatives that have made such powerful and more democratically-controlled networks possible.
“In too many places across America, some big companies are doing everything they can to keep out competitors,” Obama said in a video statement. “Today I am saying we are going to change that. Enough is enough.”
Alongside his announcement, the White House presented a fact sheet outlining the municipal broadband initiative and a new report (pdf) authored by the National Economic Council and Council of Economic Advisers which examines the success stories of “community-based broadband” projects. As part of the administration’s effort, a specific focus will be placed on making it easier for municipalities that want to build their own networks to do so. According to the fact sheet:
Laws in 19 states — some specifically written by special interests trying to stifle new competitors — have held back broadband access and, with it, economic opportunity. Today, President Obama is announcing a new effort to support local choice in broadband, formally opposing measures that limit the range of options available to communities to spur expanded local broadband infrastructure, including ownership of networks. As a first step, the Administration is filing a letter with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging it to join this effort by addressing barriers inhibiting local communities from responding to the broadband needs of their citizens.
Rebecca Toewes, a communication specialist with the Institute for Local-Self Reliance (ILSR), which has been among the nation’s strongest advocates of municipal broadband, reacted with welcome surprise to the president’s announcement and called it “a great moment for the principle of local self-reliance.” In a post on the Community Broadband Networks website, an ISLR project which focuses on the issue, Toewes wrote:
When we started to hear rumors that the White House was investigating community owned networks, we were excited but not sure what to expect. I have to admit that seeing President Obama – the President of the United States – saying that Cedar Falls was smart to invest in themselves was much more powerful than I ever expected.
The efforts of so many people to legitimize community networks are now paying off. Belittled by the big cable companies and their paid experts, we certainly were not destined to reach this point. But we are here – and everyone now recognizes that local governments can play an important role in ensuring we all have great Internet access.
In an interview with Guardian, Holmes Wilson, co-director of the nonprofit digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future, said Obama’s broadband rollout is a “a wonderful and obvious step” towards a better internet for U.S. residents.
“These prohibitions on municipal broadband were passed lightning-fast through state legislatures with tons of AT&T and cable company money behind them and they are blatantly anti-public,” Wilson said. “If the town wants to get together and try to do better than the local internet provider, why on earth would you want to stop that?”
Curious about what a “municipal broadband network” is or why they are seen as so important by some? This video, produced by the ‘Decide Locally‘ campaign, explains:
Along with this proposal, Obama is calling for a removal of all “unnecessary regulatory and policy barriers to broadband build-out,” according to a White House outline. A coalition of government agencies would attempt to speed up the implementation of these programs, though how much power such an entity would actually have is unclear.
Obama is also calling for a national broadband summit in June, where community leaders would discuss the best practices for enabling fast broadband in cities. But a looming vote on net neutrality rules expected in late February could change that discussion. In early November, Obama announced that he strongly opposed efforts by telecoms companies to get online “fast lanes” for customers that pay more for internet. FCC watchers expect a vote to fall somewhere between, in an effort to keep telecom lobbyists at bay while offering an olive branch to open-internet advocates
“We desperately need a net neutrality rule that says: if you are an internet provider, you have to treat all content equally,” said Fight for the Future’s Wilson. “Otherwise we are going to get local internet providers, local monopolies, using their market power to distort what people can do and say online and extract more money from customers.”
At Philly Mesh, we are interested in infrastructure. Whatever your reason for wanting to get involved with mesh networks or your background in the subject, Philly Mesh may serve as a place for like-minded individuals to come together and build.
What We Need
People with a desire to host/install a physical node
People with Linux/networking knowledge
People in tall buildings willing to install a node and provide wireless access and/or point-to-point connection with other nodes
Hardware, whether it be donated old wireless routers, WAPs, antennas, or plug computers.
… the arrogation and appropriation of, among other things, our personal information, the violations of our privacy by intelligence agencies, and subsequently, (self)censorship by some …
We can stay connected, depending as little as possible on commercial providers. Protect our personal data as best as we can, depending as little as possible on governments.
We can build our own community owned, individually controlled, communication infrastructure.
Wireless community networks or wireless community projects are the organizations that take a grassroots approach to providing a viable alternative to (commercial) municipal wireless networks.
Cluster and mesh approaches are common and rely on the sharing of unmetered residential and business DSL and cable Internet. This may be non-compliant with the Terms of Service (ToS) of local providers. Wireless community networks sometimes advocate complete freedom from censorship, and this position may be at odds with the Acceptable Use Policies of some commercial services used. Some ISPs allow sharing or reselling of bandwidth.
Meshnet: A decentralized peer-to-peer network, with user-controlled physical links. Usually wireless.
Seattle Wireless TV was created by Peter Yorke and Michael Pierce in July of 2003. Episodes covered various happenings within the Seattle Wireless community, which aimed at offering free wireless internet access in the area. Lasting only seven episodes, the series finished in June 2004. It is notable that SWTV can be credited as one of the first iptv shows because of how early it was produced.
In Peco dispute, solar homeowners wouldn’t give up
Peco is required to pay net-metering customers the same price for which it sells power. The utility’s price varies each quarter, but it tends to be 9 to 10 cents per kilowatt hour. From 2008 to 2012, it paid almost $196,000.
Peco Energy Co. crossed the wrong customer when it dismissed Mari Jensen’s complaint two years ago.
“I’m told I am like a dog with a bone,” she said.
Jensen lives in Concord Township, Delaware County, with her husband, Arthur. They spent about $30,000 in 2010 to install a rooftop solar system on their Sleighride Road ranch house.
For the last 19 months, the Jensens have fought a surreal David-and-Goliath battle with Peco over the formula the utility uses to pay them and other owners of solar systems for the power they produce and sell to the grid.
“It was absurd,” said Mari Jensen, a retired school bus driver. “The more they kept fighting it, the angrier I got.”
On Thursday, a unanimous Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission agreed with the Jensens and ordered Peco to recalculate its payments over the last five years to solar generators, who are known as net-metering customers
Best Practice Guidelines for Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing
On July 19, the U.S. Department of Energy released draft Best Practice Guidelines for Residential PACE Financing Programs. The original “Guidelines for Pilot PACE Financing Programs,” issued on May 7, 2010, have been updated to reflect the evolving structure of the residential PACE market, and to incorporate lessons learned from various PACE programs that have been successfully implemented since the original guidelines were issued. The updated Guidelines provide best practices for residential PACE programs, including protections to both consumers who voluntarily opt into PACE programs, and to lenders who hold mortgages on properties with PACE assessments.
Property-Assessed Clean Energy
The property-assessed clean energy (PACE) model is an innovative mechanism for financing energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements on private property. PACE programs allow local governments, state governments, or other inter-jurisdictional authorities, when authorized by state law, to fund the up-front cost of energy improvements on commercial and residential properties, which are paid back over time by the property owners.
PACE financing for clean energy projects is generally based on an existing structure known as a “land- secured financing district,” often referred to as an assessment district, a local improvement district, or other similar phrase. In a typical assessment district, the local government issues bonds to fund projects with a public purpose such as streetlights, sewer systems, or underground utility lines.
The recent extension of this financing model to energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) allows a property owner to implement improvements without a large up-front cash payment. Property owners voluntarily choose to participate in a PACE program repay their improvement costs over a set time period—typically 10 to 20 years—through property assessments, which are secured by the property itself and paid as an addition to the owners’ property tax bills. Nonpayment generally results in the same set of repercussions as the failure to pay any other portion of a property tax bill.
This section of the guidebook provides an overview of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies and systems. The reader is encouraged to review the Additional Resources listed at the end of this section to delve deeper into many of the topics presented here as well as the glossary (Appendix A) and Frequently Asked Questions (Appendix B).
How Does a PV System Work?
PV systems convert sunlight directly into electricity. PV systems allow homeowners and businesses to generate some or all of their daily electrical energy demand either on their own roof or somewhere on their property.
The majority of solar PV systems are ―grid-tied.‖ This means they remain directly connected to the power grid at all times and do not require battery storage. Grid-tied PV systems will generate electrical power to supply part of a building’s energy usage during the day and provide the greatest benefit during crucial times when the price and demand for electricity is the highest. Figure 2.1 depicts an illustration of a solar PV system interconnected to the grid.
A solar PV system can provide power to a home or business, reducing the amount of power required from the utility; when the solar PV system power generation exceeds the power needs, then the surplus power automatically back feeds into the grid. This arrangement is called ―net metering‖ for which PECO has a special tariff and will install a special utility meter that will essentially record the ―net‖ power coming in from the utility and the surplus power flowing out from the solar PV system.
A solar PV system will not operate during a power outage unless it has battery backup. It ceases to operate during outages as a safety feature for utility personnel who might be working on electric lines trying to restore power (a PV system would energize electric lines that the utility assumes is not energized, and create a shock hazard to personnel).
PV systems can also include battery backup or uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems that can operate selected circuits in a building for hours or days during a utility outage.
The basic building block of PV technology is the solar “cell”. Multiple PV cells are connected to form a PV ―module,‖ the smallest PV component sold commercially. A PV system connected or “tied” to the utility grid has these components:
PV Array: A PV Array is made up of PV modules, which are collections of PV cells. The most common PV module is 5-to-25 square feet in size and weighs about 3-4 lbs/ft2. Modules range in power output from about 10 watts to 300 watts (although higher wattages are available for utility-scale PV applications), with the power density ranging from about 5- to-18 watts per square foot.
DC to AC Inverter: This is the device that takes the DC power from the PV array and converts it into standard ac power used by the household appliances.
Balance of System equipment (BOS): BOS includes mounting systems and wiring systems used to integrate the solar modules into the structural and electrical systems of the building. The wiring systems include disconnects for the DC and AC sides of the inverter, ground-fault protection, and overcurrent protection devices, junction boxes and possibly circuit combiner boxes. (See Figure 2-2).
Metering: While meters indicate home energy usage, metering for a solar installation is used to record and display total electricity generation by the solar PV system and may provide indication of system performance.
Batteries (optional) can provide energy storage or backup power in case of a power interruption or outage on the grid. (This guidebook does not cover solar PV systems with battery backup because of their increased complexity compared to grid-tied PV systems, and because they account for less than 5% of all the solar PV systems installed.)
Applications for PV systems are constantly expanding with new uses being identified all the time. In addition to offsetting loads for homeowners as described previously, PV systems also serve facilities such as commercial, educational, industrial, and government buildings. PV technologies are rapidly becoming installed at the utility-scale supplying power for utilities and retail electric providers in multi-megawatt capacities. Read More at source
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Pennsylvania Rebates and Incentives Summary
Pennsylvania has a history of innovation and forward-thinking ideas. It was the first state to put its website URL on its license plate. It’s home of the first baseball stadium, built in 1909. The first automobile service station went up in Pittsburgh in 1913. And, in 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer. The state is not quite leading the charge on solar the way it has in so many other fields. But it’s not far behind either.
Pennsylvania offers home and business owners as well as non-profits and government properties incentives and rebates for installing alternative energy, including photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind turbines and geothermal systems. In 2008, the state fueled its renewable energy program when Gov. Ed Rendell (D) signed a law creating the commonwealth’s $650 million Alternative Energy Investment Fund. This legislation broadly increased funding for projects of all sizes and included an additional $16 million Alternative Fuels Investment Fund. Large sums are reserved to help home and property owners invest in energy efficiency – $237.5 million. And the state invests another $428.4 million in developing alternative energy and creating green jobs.
Net metering is a way to capture the energy used and produced by a renewable energy generator located at a home or small business. Homeowners and small business owners who have a solar power system, wind turbine or similar energy generator can use net metering to offset their traditional utility costs. The excess power that is generated enters the general utility grid, and is tracked as negative usage on the meter. Interconnection refers to the technical, contractual, and rates and metering requirements that are settled between the system owner and PECO before the system is connected to the grid.
Solar, DIY: Two Philadelphia handy men take solar into their own hands
You would think Greg Scott was talking about building bookshelves from a box, not installing a solar array on his roof. “Once you know how to build stuff for a reason, you sort of figure out how to build things,” he explains. Scott, together with his do-it-yourself partner Tom Weissert, thinks we can do it, too.
Scott and Weissert have installed both a solar hot water system, which heats water with solar warmth, and a photovoltaic (PV) array, which converts sunlight into electricity, on Weissert’s house in Narberth, and they are close to installing another PV system at Scott’s house in West Philly.
Scott and Weissert don’t want to stop with their houses; their vision is for a more project-sustainable community model of home PV installation. They’re still hammering out how this would work and are always looking to others for inspiration and help. “I’m not an electrician, I’m not a carpenter,” says Scott. “I want to demystify the process. I’d like to see solar panels on every house in Philadelphia.”
Solar power co-operatives are fast emerging has an innovative way for local communities to gain access to renewable energy generation. Over the last few years, several such initiatives have been successfully launched in the UK — with new schemes opening in a number of cities including London and Bristol. So, how do such schemes work? And what benefits can they provide to local people?
Bristol Energy Cooperative
The Bristol Energy Cooperative (BEC), a member of the Bristol Energy Network, was established following a meeting by several Bristol-based environmental activists. As Peter Thompson, Chair of the BEC explains, one of the key motivations was frustration at the limited options available to unincorporated informal community groups — coupled with the “desire to engage in action at a city-wide scale, beyond the remit of any of the community groups established up to that point.”
In total, the BEC has completed three installations, one at Hamilton House, a community centre in the Stoke’s Croft area of the city, with two others at the Knowle West Media Centre, and at Easton Community Centre.
The Hamilton House project runs to some 20 kW, providing an estimated annual energy output of 14,145 kWh. It was financed and installed by Ethical Solar, which gave BEC the option of buying the panels, and the resultant generation feed-in tariff income, at an early stage. The system consists of 85 x 230-Watt Innotech panels and two 3-phase SMA inverters. Read more:
Scientists Reprogram DNA in order to Stop Death but don’t you deserve to die ?
Ahh ! I mean does everyone want to live forever, does everyone want to extend this wicked cycle of need and want for another hundred years or so? I mean the vast amount of inhabitants on earth live in poverty, not that they have to, but as directed or manufactured by their so loving wealthy fellow so-called humans.
Ok I was reading this fairly insightful article, ‘Scientists Reprogram DNA in order to Stop Death’ and I couldn’t stop thinking what was so behooving of this brilliance, I mean to extend a healthy empathetic quality of life sure, but live forever or an extended life of misery in this very much UN-empathetic world, where folks with the slightest bit of difference from the majority are harassed to the extent that they are exercising their right to check out virtually daily, to escape a life of misery, or the difference could be just born into poverty and thus sentenced to a life of servitude.
This train of thought reminds me of those who speak of, and actively seek to explore the solar system and galaxy even. Humankind today affords it’s vast majority, a brutal, parasitic existence of servitude, and although one maybe blessed to find an understanding or discipline, that allows an inward push toward a reality without boundaries, most can not and do not escape the misery, or even seek such a way of cooping, as their pedagogy forbids it. I don’t know, it just seems to me, that we need grow into a more compassionate, empathetic species before taking our madness further into the solar system, galaxy or extending our individual physicality into the unquantified.
I really did enjoy the article and would recommend the read, as well as the video. Enjoy.
Many different species of animals either live a very long time or do not die of old age. Some examples are the tortoise & lobster species that live to be over 130 years old naturally and don’t usually die unless they get sick or are killed.
After we grow up our cells eventually stop self replicating. A scientist named Leonard Hayflick figured out that each of our cells divide about 50 times and then they stop. Once all of our cells stop replicating we start to deteriorate and then eventually die. This discovery showed that we are actually programmed to die biologically.
Scientists everywhere are on a search for the secret to reprogram our cells so that we can bypass this rule and find a way to stop humans from dying of old age. Check it out!
According to the research on worms and mice, changing our genetic codes can lengthen our lives. There are very specific genes in our body that cause us to grow, and other genes that help us maintain our health and fight off diseases. After we are full grown adults we should be able to shift the energy from our growing genes and into our maintenance genes which in turn would double our life span.
As you heard in the video above, studying lifespan takes a long time and it may be a while before scientists are ethically or technologically able to safely change the genes in a human to help us live longer. So in the mean time staying active & healthy are the best secrets we have found to help encourage long and happy lives.
When it comes to your diet take a look at your calorie intake. According to scientists excessive calories reduces the lifespan in mice. Is it possible that we are eating more than we need? Could excessive eating be shortening our lives? If you look at the obesity epidemic in the 1st world countries you can see that we are probably consuming more than we need. Perhaps trimming the excess calories can help us live longer and healthier lives.
The last thing I wanted to show you was this picture I found circulating on the web. I wanted you to check it out as an interesting theory and see what you thought.
This picture appears to be showing a path where through the consuming of better and higher frequencies of energy you can be more connected with light and potentially be happier and healthier.
Now don’t run off and start drinking only fluid in the hopes that you will become enlightened. I am sure that if this is more than just a symbolic representation of our dependence on light, oneness, or divinity, there would have to be a lot of scientific prep to make this possible in humans. Perhaps this picture is showing the evolution of humanity as a whole. What do you think?
I would also love to hear your thoughts in the comments below about the ageing process, death, dying, health, nutrition & the science/spirit connection.