GAIA'S ALBEDO 0.39
Raleigh Myers
From: Raleigh Myers <ram...@igc.apc.org>
PLANET ENERGY
GAIA'S ALBEDO 0.39
Contrary to some popular beliefs, the Planet operates on the energy
from the sun. 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 Van Gellis fan would know. This means that
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, but is also affected by forest fires and
released CO2 from fossil fuel combustion etc..
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 surplus CO2).
But perhaps switching back to Solar Energy strategies would soften the
insult along with sacrificing our 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 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 ie. 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 and pollution control
etc. and we played our trade(multi-media) to get people to see the
light(pun intended). Early on we began with direct democracy (getting out
the vote) through song with Woodie'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 anthem-referenda, 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). 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 ie. How to kickstart a compromised
planet with faulty lighting or if we procrastinate much longer "How to
kickstart a dead planet". Catch it on our web site.
http://www.igc.apc.org/raenergy/raenergy.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!
RALEIGH MYERS GEER........................
ram...@igc.apc.org
RA ENERGY FDN.............
http://www.igc.apc.org/raenergy/raenergy.html
.........................................FOLKSAY(people say)
.............THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND
......................THIS LAND IS MADE FOR YOU AND ME
.................................The Global Village anthem
.............sung by those who already voted for citizen empowerment
...... now let's get it officially on record with electronic direct democracy
THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS ..is the reality at hand!
The children of the universe, the right to be here generation ie. the meek
taking their prophetic inheritance out of probate is not a conspiracy.