Zak's Solar Dreams

We recently received this note about manifestation -- Lynn responds below:

Dear Lynn and Heidi,

Your LUNAPHASES newsletter is inspirational and a joy to read. I often share it with friends and always enjoy it even when I'm not quite sure how to carry out your wise advice. In your last installment you wrote "Share with us what you are manifesting." And so here I try.

Three years ago my husband and I set out in our 1969 VW Combi to Mexico where we discovered Guanajuato, one of the world's magical cities. Set high in the Sierra mountains of Central Mexico, Guanajuato was once the world's largest silver producer and the wealthiest city in Mexico, and the site of Mexico's victorious battle against Spain in the War of Independence. In its first hey day its population reached 90,000 but then dwindled down to under 8,000 after the Revolution in 1910. Despite its stunning Colonial architecture and spectacular natural setting, as recently as the 1960's Guanajuato was almost a ghost town. In the last 50 years, however, it has regained its stature. Today it has surpassed its previous population peak. Now a cultural Mecca, it is home to the 20,000 students of one of Mexico's most well-regarded universities, a symphony orchestra, the State government, and a plethora of music, theater, dance and art. It is one of those magical cities where people are always kissing in the streets.

It has, on average, 353.2 days of sunshine every year.

My dream is to make Guanajuato the world's first Solar City; a leader in the World War for Energy Independence. I want to take Guanajuato off the grid. Guanajuato can lead the world in our quest for freedom from oil, independence from the energy monopolies, and freedom from the toxic fumes that are choking humanity to death and making the planet an ever-hotter inferno.

Solar energy is the cleanest, safest, most reliable and potentially cheapest source of energy available. It's potential is mindboggling. In one hour the sun bathes the earth with more energy than the entire human population consumes in a year. And yet in the United States it is still one of the least funded forms of alternative energy. In this fiscal year the Department of Energy alotted $159 million to research and development of solar energy as compared to $427 million for research and development of coal driven power plants, one of the world's dirtiest energy sources and $303 million for nuclear power, one of the world's most dangerous.

Apparently the "Powers that Be" are not behind solar power. In Mexico the problems are probably just as bad if not worse. Handicapped by years of corruption, Mexico is notorious for inefficiency. While Mexico is comparably rich in oil and natural gas, this resource is owned, operated and benefitting the Mexican government. And like all developing populations, Mexicans are driven by the desire to catch up with their northern neighbor, unaware as they are of the extraordinary costs such an accomplishment would carry.

However as a cultural, intellectual and political leader in Mexico and a geographically compact city bathed in sunshine literally all year long Guanajuato is poised to be a perfect Solar City. For its size (currently about 100,000) it is rich in ambitious, forward thinking, cultural leaders. In addition its geography already makes it uniquely less car dependent than most any other city in the Americas. Built into a deep ravine, the vast majority of Guanajuato's streets are so narrow and steep they are only suitable to foot traffic. And to further limit the presence of cars within the city's narrow downtown, the majority of automobile traffic is funnelled underneath the town in a maze of great stone tunnels originally built to provide protection from flooding during the summer's torrential rains. Most significantly the city naturally developed to support its car-less population. Every community has a cluster of small stores and street vendors who sell the residents their daily needs. Getting from one side of town to the other is most often unnecessary. And lastly, when transportation is needed the city has an efficient and effective bus system - whose significant drawback is the fume billowing ancient diesel buses.

Lastly, located high in the Central Plains of Mexico, Guanajuato is surrounded by hot, dry, sun-baked desert. While creating a solar city might begin through such steps as distributing solar water heaters to every home, lighting the streets with solar streetlights, and installing photovoltaic solar panels on the city's sun-drenched rooftops, if this were not enough to meet the city's electrical needs another option exists - the creation of a solar power station. Most electricity is generated through the use of electric turbines. Nuclear power plants create heat through nuclear fusion which then boils water to drive an electric turbine. Coal power plants burn coal to boil water to drive the turbines. A solar power station would use fields of mirrors and fresnel lenses to concentrate and collect sunlight to boil water to drive the power turbines. The technology is simple and powerful.

The raw ingredients exist. As does the interest. But there my resources end, and my knowledge of how to proceed falters. I thank you both for already providing a forum in which I could focus my thoughts and my dreams - I'm sure a first step in achieving them. And I welcome any and all thoughts, ideas, encouragements and inspirations you may have on how to proceed.

Perhaps it takes the same dedication and perserverence that you, Lynn, dedicated to running your marathon - though I fear it may take such energies dedicated not for 6 months but for 6 or 16 or 26 years. And the pains may be more insidious (though far, far less debilitating) than the blisters on your feet. And I have no organized group to join! And so I sit at my computer reading articles on Solar Energy and dreaming. And hoping to find people to join in my dream.

Thanks in advance for all your thoughts and ideas.

Blessings and good wishes,
Zak

PS. Despite its diesel buses (there really aren't that many of them), the air in Guanajuato is beautifully clean making it a great place to view stars.

Wow, Zak... this is an amazing response to New Moon in Pisces with Hand Analysis skill set of clairvoyance. This seems totally channeled. And, completely inspirational. (I can't wait to your response to Aries... but I'm getting ahead of myself...)

Thank you so much for sharing this. This is exactly what we meant by inspired message for uniting community. I wonder if it would make sense to contact other organizations that have already implemented solar power into their grid. I wonder if it would make sense to contact companies that manufacture and install the solar panels. Garner wisdom from the little guys who are getting things going on a smaller scale... I wonder if it would make sense to begin some community building around this -- start holding meetings for exchange of ideas... you are clearly a very strong solo engine, and I can't imagine how powerful you'll become when you enlist the support of others... also -- I'm just thinking -- with your experience as a Director of Photography -- if you cut together a video and uploaded it on You Tube, you would instantly have an international audience.

Time to get the word out, girl... and stay tuned for the Full Moon in Aries...
Lynn