The Sun gives us clean, warm, free enery, but we prefer soot filled carbon.

 

That same sun that warmed us while we hiked heated the solar showers that will be ready for us when we get back. The Commander says she is going to do a three or four pusher. What is a four pusher? For each push of the button you get about a three minute nice warm sun water shower. Kadizzle got by on a two pusher. Traveling in the winter is deluxe because you have giant facilites all to yourself, and the facilities are clean and well maintained since they are under little public pressure.

Also you get to be handicapped in the winter. Since no one is using the handicapped facilities in the winter the park people don't care if you use the handicapped campsite with a paved play pen, nor do they care if you use the handicapped shower with two nozzles. Now, back to that sun , that sun that is warming the shower, is also charging the Earth Module batteries. Solar power in the Southwest is real, and works. The sun rains clean energy down on us every day, but so many people insist that their power comes from dirty old coal, or some other poisonous substance that will fry the planet.

Since old Kadizzle worked his entire life in the energy industry he can assure you 75% of the energy produced in this country does no useful work. At a giant power plant most of the coal burned goes up the chimney and out to the cooling towers as waste heat. In the process we are cooking the planet. Solar on the other hand either charges your batteries, your shower, or just harmlessly warms up the ground. Conservation is a dirty word in our country where we have a six thousand pound truck with one person in it driving down the road at 75mph. It is our right. We heat a huge home where most of the rooms sit empty. Kadizzle is guilty as hell. Our house is sitting empty at 55 degrees burning propane and a little electricity. In Europe the people live well on about a third less energy than we do. They have mass transit, and many simple solutions to energy use.

When we visit New York to see our daughter it is so noticeable how they do without cars. People walk, and unbelievably there are not as many lump asses as we have in North Dakota. Energy efficient people are generally thin, and the tattor tot gang usually is burning up fuel just heating the tator tots.