Albedo 0.39 The forbidden fruit we cant ignore
The Solar Budget is a Moral Issue

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Raleigh Myers

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Worksheet bio

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The Archetype of Fairness

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Albedo 0.39 The forbidden fruit we cant ignore

The planet has glaciation cycles, we extrapolated the Fire and Ice Scenario in our Frost show and a precession of equinoxes in our Hair piece with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.  We did some training videos on the universal standard of living with a diminished footprint, giving a chance at a peaceful transition to Humanity’s need for commonality recognition.

 
Global Dimming Horizon producer David Sington on why predictions about the Earth's climate will need to be re-examined. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_prog_summary.shtml

 

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century
of warming, all in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single
fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down. http://tinyurl.com/3b6zje

Is Global Warming Past the Point of No Return?

 

We are in danger of passing an extremely dangerous tipping point, with the frightening discovery of massive deposits of sub-sea methane in the Arctic. 350ppm is the most important number on the planet…. Videos….. http://www.350.org/#tabs-rotator-1


Sea ice reflects up to 80 per cent of sunlight hitting it but this "albedo effect" is mostly lost when the sea is uncovered. "We've exposed all this dark ocean to the sun's heat so that the overall heat content increases," he explained. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0916-09.htm



This is a Moral Issue

 

The British fueling their trains with Egyptian Mummies in the eighteen hundreds, is on the same audacity level as burning Coal to kill the planet.

What Climate change is all about.  The original aboriginal, space mother Gaia, is experiencing a span of altered states due to some
anthropomorphic induced aberrations.  The Solar Budget is how things work around here and it has been Gored.

The fossil fat from coal and oil from dead plants status quo is attempting to fight mother nature in our name _ less  than five percent of the planet's population responsible for it's demise. We have a narrow window of survival as a species. Many species we can rely on, as the canary in the mine, have already perished or are seriously degraded. GAIA'S ALBEDO 0.39 the one constant we can not mess with because climate change results _ the forbidden fruit is a metaphor for the violation of the knowledge base. The cosmic sense behind living in the solar budget http://www.igc.org/raenergy/Threshold.html



GAIA'S ALBEDO 0.39


Contrary to some popular beliefs, the Planet operates on the energy from the sun _ 127.7 Watts 300 Btu Per Square Foot which is the solar constant. This energy is fixed at the rate at which sunlight is reflected away from  the planet. This reflection is called Albedo and the Albedo of Gaia is 0.39.  as any Vangelis fan should know.

The planet is designed to operate efficiently with sixty one percent of the available sunlight and reflects 39 % (.39) back out to space. This delicate balance is regulated and affected by what is floating around in the atmosphere such as clouds, soot etc. , but also from releasing sequestered CO2 from fossil fuel combustion etc. giving us less time to make the transition back to the Glaciation mode.

Gasses put into the atmosphere by Forest fires (Proscribed fires), volcanoes etc. and other natural occurrences are part of the Albedo regulation process of the planet  along with the systematic  burial  of dead plants and distant relatives to  regulate  CO2.  On the other hand exhuming all that stored CO2  and fossil fat for sudden oxidation is an insult  to the whole planet and not much higher on the morality scale than the British using Egyptian Mummies to heat their homes and fire the boilers of their trains at the turn of the century.

Almost everything creates a ripple effect that can disrupt the Albedo balance, even wood burning for cooking creates micro-climate changes not just from pollution but  cutting the trees down in hillside areas like the Himalayas causes soil destabilization and floods.  And most agree that destroying large quantities of  living vegetation  like half the forests on Earth and the rain forests as you read, compromises  the overall CO2 Sink (absorbing or sequestering surplus CO2).

But perhaps switching back to Solar Energy strategies would soften the insult along with  sacrificing our distant ancestors  in more benign altered states such as Albedo friendly non biodegradable building materials.  In other words why release  the Albedo sensitive  CO2 of  these stored prehistoric calories(fossil fat)  to heat the house and run the car, when a year or two's supply of these former carbon based units  can become non-biodegradable  building materials to actually build the house and car. This in turn can put a little Jurassic park into every house and car with 'bottled water and sunshine'(Hydrogen) providing the utilities.  Welcome to the Solar Hydrogen Economy.

We began in the fifties in our Folksay days to recognize that some Design science was in order, to help us operate within the .39  Albedo range _ the Solar Budget.  As Robert Frost said "We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting!"   Of course as artists we saw the basic 'what can you do for your planet’ strategies as sustainability, anti-fascism (Freewill thing) and pollution control etc. and we played our trade (multi-media) to get people to see the light(pun intended). Our Man On the Moon script (before Sputnik) carried over to researching the nuts and bolts of the Hydrogen Economy with our treadmill TIME. This is a strategy to ease the tensions in a world that inhibits peace.

Early on we began with direct democracy (getting out the vote) through song with Woody's "We won't study war no more" to cleanse ourselves spiritually (anti fascism) as well as the air, to  "This land is Your land, This land is my land, This land is made for you and me" as the global village planetary anthem-referenda, as a new twist in citizen advice and consent, to Hair's "Let the Sun shine in" heralding the dawning of a sun powered  age of  Aquarius  etc.. We also combined theater, TV and film along with concerts and road shows as part of our attitude adjustment synergy. (see worksheet-bio). We did a film called Abraham and Isaac a Command Performance to celebrate the enLIGHTenment _don’t let the light go out. The beginning of a reality tabloid

 

First the movie, then the real life, all the worlds a stage sequel is now casting. In the early seventies we formed the 'Ra Energy Fdn. To investigate the life support equation by putting together an unusual  cast of artists teamed with rocket scientists rescued from the space program which was being  politically scuttled along with the Hydrogen Economy.

This forty year living movie depicting artists and scientists Tweaking the envelope is presented as our think tank report-interactive script detailing our down to "Earth" premise _ How to kickstart a compromised planet with faulty lighting or if we procrastinate much longer "How to kickstart  a dead planet" where the lights went out.  .

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Catch it on our web site take the Earth Hour tour

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Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

 

     -- Robert Frost

 

The nuts and bolts begin with reverse role fairness morphing into commonality reformation. Does Humanity have a family name? http://raenergy.igc.org/index2.html


In Solidarity

Raleigh

Ps. At the dedication of the Frost Memorial in San Francisco in 1978 Will Geer left this message and quoted Robert Frost as we did in our shows "An Evenings' Frost" and our  "Americana Bus Tour" that we toured in the sixties and seventies.

"We can no longer live on coal and oil from dead plants"

Our play seems out for an almost infinite run.

Don't mind a little thing like the actors fighting.

The only thing I worry about is the sun.

We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting!

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Maximum distance from the sun: 94 million 537 thousand miles

Minimum distance from the sun: 91 million 377 thousand miles

Mean distance from the sun: 92 million 957 thousand and 200 miles

Mean orbital velocity: 66000 miles per hour

0rbital eccentricity: 0.017

Obliquity of the ecliptic: 23 degrees 27 minutes 8.26 seconds

Length of the tropical year: equinox equinox 365.24 days

Length of the sidereal year: fixed star fixed star 365.26 days

Length of the mean solar day: 24 hours and 3 minutes and 56.5555 seconds at mean solar time

Length of the mean sidereal day: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds at mean sidereal time

Mass: 6600 million million million tons

Equatorial diameter: 7927 miles

Polar diameter: 7900 miles

Oblateness: one 298th

Density: 5.41

Mean surface gravitational acceleration of the rotating earth: 32.174 feet per second per second

Escape velocity: 7 miles per second


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There just isnt any way of getting around it.

Within the Gandhi piece is mentioned a lecture called 'The Hydrogen Economy Stupid' which gives some of the technical details and where we accumulate the funding for the global village by not rebuilding the amenity infrastructure. THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY STUPID  http://www.igc.apc.org/raenergy/stupid.html

Some other lectures leading to solutions http://raenergy.igc.org/Googleclick.html

Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large corporations is the definition of fascism. http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm

-Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much of higher consideration. -Abraham Lincoln

Under the placid surface [of the economy], there are disturbing trends: huge imbalances, disequilibria, risks -- call them what you will. Altogether the circumstances seem to me as dangerous and intractable as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot. Paul Volcker, Former US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman April 10, 2005.


"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible, and they are stupid."

-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952


"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor). http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html


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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret Mead


Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs& And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one design. Roger Bacon

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