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Windsor Castle is powered by a water turbine, while the roof of Blackfriars station is covered by solar panels.

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Yes renewable energy requires long-term investment and government assistance to get established. But all of the world’s new technologies and systems have been born of similar investment. And to be fair, critics rarely acknowledge the ongoing subsidies and concessions that big oil and gas still receives from taxpayers. Not to mention the huge cash flow that non-renewable fuels drain from consumer incomes each week–leaving less money to be spent on everything else in the economy. Lastly there are the $billions that traditional fuels export to the middle east each month to purchase and control foreign oil interests.

The long term math of renewable energy trumps non-renewable without even needing to quantify environmental benefits. And the savings are literally world changing as more money is freed up for true essentials like ingenious inventions, smart grids, education, health, disaster prevention and restoration, clean air, water, healthy food supply, art…the possibilities are endless.

The global debt crisis is ubiquitous: debt is plentiful and customers in short supply all over.

“The Caribbean is going through its toughest time since independence, with many of the islands struggling with huge debt and a weak economy.”

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From the madness and minutiae of markets, a much needed look up. Over the past 3 years as Quantitative Easing and algorithmic traders have churned world asset prices round and round, up and down, our sun–the ultimate source of all power on our planet–has been silently spinning as captured in this remarkable video.

“In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.

This version of SDO: Three Years in Three Minutes is extended and narrated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. He highlights many interesting aspects of the video and points out several of the single-frame events that appear in it.”

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