I’ve been somewhat preoccupied getting a new photo gallery online (using CopperMine) and a new Bulletin Board. I’m still populating the photo gallery but the Bulletin Board is ready to go. It’s completely totally FREE, give it a try at: http://www.eskimo.com/bbs

I am excited by all the cool things happening in the technological arena. Advances in the controlled hydrogen fusion arena, advances in solar cell technologies, and new nuclear fission technology that can destroy existing nuclear waste, hold the promise of a sustainable infrastructure for the world with the capacity to eliminate pollution and poverty. How… (read more)

The Chinese are not content to wait until 2016 for ITER to come online to start working out the final issues involved in bringing fusion power online. The Chinese are building a reactor called EAST which is expected to see first plasma around August 15, 2006. They began construction earlier this year which gives you… (read more)

A fusor is a device which uses an electrostatic field to accelerate deuterium (or a mix of deuterium and tritium) ions and cause them to collide with sufficient energy to overcome the coulomb barrier and fuse. A fusor consists of two concentric grids placed into vacuum chamber with deuterium introduced at a very low pressure…. (read more)

BP Solar supports research into ribbon silicon.UCLA engineers create plastic solar cells.Nanotech center makes flexible solar cell breakthrough.Quantum dots promise next generation solar cells.Indium nitrate and gallium nitrate can absorb full spectrum.Advances permit solar cells on very thin substrates.CIGS solar cells promise promise high efficiency and low cost.

I took these pictures of a solar installation at the Carkeek Environmental Education Center in 2005. This installation provides 3.6 Kw of peak power and provides for about 50% of this buildings energy needs. I was recently contacted for permission to publish the following photograph in a book dealing with the subject of sustainable energy…. (read more)

While searching the web to find out what the latest developments in solar technology were, I ran across this article relating to Shell Oils rather disgusting approach to solar power. In South Africa, Shell International Renewables Limited and Eskom are working on a system to provide electricity to customers in rural and remote areas using… (read more)

We made it past June 6, 2006, or 06/06/06. Here is another interpretation of the meaning of the number. First, a little background. Some versions of the Bible say the number is 666, some spell out six hundred and sixty six, and still others say that it is three sixes. There is actually scriptural support… (read more)

On his syndicated radio show, Matt Drudge was objecting to the news media coverage of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. In particular he was upset with the showing the bloody mangled bodies of Lebanese civilians whom Israel has bombed. The reality is grim. Suggesting that the news media should not cover it is burying our… (read more)

We need to evolve spiritually and reconnect with all that is. We need to change our world view. Without doing this there is absolutely no hope for a better sustainable world. We view ourselves as disconnected individuals competing with everyone and everything for the resources that we believe we need. We are all part of… (read more)