With Hanukkah putting everyone’s mind on the subject of efficient lighting — and oil shortages — two New York City congregations have jumped onto the green-building bandwagon by connecting their eternal lights to solar power. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan and Union Temple in Brooklyn recently became the first two synagogues in New York City to install solar-powered nerot tamid (the symbolic lights that hang over the ark). Both synagogues dedicated the lights this past weekend, in ceremonies timed to coincide with Hanukkah.
“It seemed to us that the symbolism of eternal light powered by an eternal source was a perfect metaphor for renewable energy, and Hanukkah is the obvious holiday where that is the pre-eminent theme, so we put the two together,” said Gil Kulick, co-chair of B’nai Jeshurun’s environmental action committee, which oversaw the installation.
Powering nerot tamid with the sun is nothing new. The first-known solar ner tamid was installed at Temple Emanuel in Lowell, Mass., in 1978 — not coincidentally, the last time that America was in the midst of an oil crisis. More recently, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, an environmental advocacy group, has begun encouraging synagogues to pursue the idea, and solar nerot tamid have appeared in synagogues from Washington to Chicago to Los Angeles.
But for congregations looking to save energy and money, solar-powered nerot tamid don’t make much sense. Greg Sherman is the construction manager of Bright Power Inc., the green-building company that installed B’nai Jeshurun’s new solar panel and electrical hook-up. He estimates that the congregation will save the equivalent of about $10 worth of electricity over the course of a year. As in Jewish ritual, however, the purpose of the ner tamid is not function but symbolism. Both synagogues plan to use their solar installations to educate and inspire congregants to kick-start larger greening programs that could save serious energy.
“I’d like to do more greening here,” Union Temple administrator John Golomb said. “We like to feel like we’re doing something that’s tikkun olam.”
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SHALOM VE AJAVA PEACE AND LOVE ================================================================= ========================= Making lots and lots of money and saving the world in the process Saving Humanity and the Biosphere and making lots and lots of money DOING IT !!!!!!!!! ================================================================= ========================= Dear Fellow Human Beings : I appreciate very much, in advance, your kind attention, and I respectfully present to you a work for the ages, a work of genius, the key to the salvation of Humanity and the Biosphere, and unfortunately many of us are failing in a completely disastrous and utter self-destructive way to understand that our very lives as a species depend totally on the proper functioning of our very dear and life giving Biosphere. The restoration of the Biosphere to an extremely efficient and proper functioning state of existence as soon as possible is Humanity's most urgent, vital, primary reason of being, before anything else, any project at all, this is "THE PROJECT", "PRIORITY ONE" !!!! "PRIORITY ONE" NOTHING COMES BEFORE IT !!!! IF WE DO NOT WAKE UP, WE DIE AS A SPECIES, WE WILL DISAPPEAR OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH !!!! THIS IS FATE KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR, THIS IS THE CALL OF DESTINY, THE DESTINY OF HUMANITY. Being my favorite composer, Beethoven, in his wonderful 5th Symphony has his famous first four notes "FATE KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR" which is the letter "V" in Morse Code and the first letter in the word "VICTORY" So, if Humanity receives my gift, the greatest gift ever and uses it with kindness compassion, wisdom, and foresight it will be "VICTORIOUS" over its own foolishness, greed, abuse of power and general blindness, ignorance and insanity, and if not it will be doomed to self-extinction, this is its very, very, last chance period, it is high time to wake up and face reality as it is, however unpleasant. And there is the hope that since the design is so inherently benevolent, Humanity won't be able to kill itself with it no matter how it misuses it, if it does, which is quite probable, that somehow it will save Humanity in spite of our great flaws and imperfection, from ourselves, amen. I am an almost 67 years old independent inventor, engineer and scientist, self educated, and so where Mr. Michael Faraday, Mr. Thomas Alva Edison and Mr. Orville Wright and Mr Wilbur Wright and they produced very important advances in science and technology, as well as many other self educated people throughout history. I am standing on Mr. Faraday's mighty shoulders, one of the greatest scientists that have ever lived. After 18 years of very hard intellectual work I have completed the design of a quite unique and extraordinary device. What I intend to do is to build the very first really practical and truly useful electric generator which will produce electricity without using fossil fuels or nuclear power, please read The Book, Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer by a great woman Helen Caldicott M.D, which are very deadly poisons, specially fossil fuels, which have killed millions of people already and continue killing them at an accelerated pace !!!!and that includes the killing of the very people who extract them from within the earth, who process them, sale them, and make money from them, their families and their children, totally insane behavior, without any doubt. This magnificent power generator will give birth to an inherently highly benevolent business, yes, a business, because each unit will be rented and there will be charges for preventive maintenance, so money will be made, for sure. This extraordinary and unique device will safely power absolutely everything that stands and moves on this Earth, with a ready market of almost seven billion 7,000,000,000 costumers and eventually, it will produce profits in the hundred trillion range 100,000,000,000,000. It will be powered by the simultaneously synergistic action of a group of 11 component energies and structures: 1) gravity, 2) inertia, 3) magnetism, 4) zero point energy, 5) the lever principle, 6) electricity, 7) laser light, 8) electronics (digital, analog and hybrid 9) programming, 10) electrical engineering, 11) mechanical engineering. It will be built using a synergistic assemblage of well known technologies, which will produce an entirely new effect, never seen before on this Earth. It will do, with great ease, what scientists and engineers consider impossible, it will safely generate electric power for public consumption and feed back a little to keep itself running, and repeat this cycle of self-propulsion continuouslyj, without using conventional fuels such as fossil and nuclear. THIS IS NOT PERPETUAL MOTION, ALL PROCESSES REQUIRE AN INPUT OF ENERGY TO EXIST, THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF NATURE THAT CANNOT BE CIRCUMVENTED, FOR SURE, QUITE CERTAINLY. Yes, I am in total agreement with all scientists and engineers, in order to do work an input of energy is an absolute must, as far as work is concerned there is no free lunch, period. On the other hand Scientists and Engineers are totally blind to the fact that the Universe is filled to the brim with an all pervasive totally all permeating matrix of energies, there is no vacuum in the Universe. These energies possess an immense power and subtlety of behavior incomprehensible to our poor, pathetically primitive brains. THEY sustain, run and power the entire Universe and form extremely complex space structures, again beyond our comprehension, and also they are THE ETERNAL MARVELOUS MATRIX from which all matter originates and to which all matter returns eventually THE ETERNAL EBB-FLOW. This Matrix is governed by very subtle and quite consistent laws, obeying a highly developed priciple of absolute causality of SUCH MULTIDIMENSIONAL, PROFOUNDLY NON-LINEAR, HIGHLY ANISOTROPIC INTELLIGENCE that, again, our poor pathetically primitive brains are totally helpless to fathom. The Energies are forever young, unlike us, they never ever tire, or wear out, or become depleted, their power never ever wanes, they will provide the energy needed to sustain and power my machine, and if there is an ALMIGHTY GOD. and I am still an agnostic, then THEY ARE THE GREAT GLORY OF GOD !!!!!!!!! My generator will be truly non-polluting, the electric power will be free, it will work 24 hours a day and it will be small so as not to disturb delicate and sensitive ecological-environmental interactions. This is not a dream, this is quite real, and only a great genius such as I am could conceive of this project and will manifest it into this world as soon as he finds the very small amount of funding he needs and the support and protection of a very powerful worldwide corporation or group of corporations, the only way this ( at the beginning ) little, vulnerable baby of a project could become a grownup walking the Earth with kindness and compassion and being at the same time a money making benevolent and truly helpful empire. It would be easy for powerful vested interests to prevent its growth and even destroy it at the very beginning, but, after it has developed sufficiently, with the help and support of very powerful and influential friends, nobody will be able to stop the great public and worldwide good it will do. The environmental organizations worldwide are quite blind and misguided in their activities, there is no more time left for their pleas, something, and actual device must be built as soon as possible and deployed as soon as possible all over the Earth and even then, it will take more than 40 years to eliminate totally fossil fuels and atomic energy and and even then if we survive as a species it will be a pretty close call, by the skin of our teeth, considering the state of the Biosphere, which is now on the accelerated acceleration ramping up of catastrophes upon catastrophes, and I am not exaggerating, just stating true facts, the fossil and nuclear parties are over, right now, certainly no later than the end of 2009, if we want to survive as a species IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP KIDDIES AND TO GROW UP !!!!!!!!!And even if we manage to change quite radically, in a great revolutionary manner the way everything that stands and moves on this Earth is powered, reforest the entire planet and clean up the super horrible pollution we have caused in the Biosphere, and even then, we will suffer for at least 200 years the pain of the quite noxious effects we have brought upon ourselves with our own stupidity, ignorance, insanity, greed, abuse of power, blindness and astonishingly mad denials of the incredibly obvious, we are a very unfortunate species, it is very sad, oh, so sad, I could cry for at least 400 years 27 hours a day, 9 days a week, if there is an ALMIGHTY GOD may HE take pity on us pathetic creatures, may HE have mercy on us incredible idiots and help us with our plight !!!!!!!!! This intellectual revolution in science and technology, which "the generator" really is, has been designed, I reiterate, with the purpose of being a force for "The Good" inherently highly benevolent. It will change radically long lasting, very entrenched and very mistaken beliefs scientists and engineers have about how energy works in the Universe. They believe that the INCREDIBLY MIGHTY !!!! UNIVERSE works like a humble steam engine, and that eventually it will "run out of steam" and will stop working altogether, which is an very, very primitive belief system, as backward as the former belief that the Earth is flat and it is the center of the Universe, it does not move and everything is orbiting around it, what incredible arrogance and vanity, compared with the IMMENSE UNIVERSE this puny Earth is nothing, nothing at all. The "steam engine" belief system which is really some kind of a religion, not proven by the Scientific Method, is totally untenable as an explanation for how THE ENORMOUSLY POWERFUL AND SOPHISTICATED UNIVERSE WORKS !!!! well, I have news for them, quite a wake up call !!!! Entropy, what an utterly idiotic concept, the ultimate antropomorphization of the Universe, if the Universe, its structure and works were as abysmally stupid as us, it could not possibly exist, impossible, it exists because of its SUPER FANTASTICALLY SOPHISTICATED INTELLIGENCE immensely beyond our own. We know so very little about The Infinite Immense Universe, Infinite, Immense Timewise and Spacewise and about how Universal Energies work, their origin and sustenance, that we have no right to make any pompous, self-serving and arrogant cosmic pronouncements, based on an abysmal lack of truly relevant data, we have no right at all, it is totally unscientific to follow this path of utter folly. Many believe we are the only "civilization" in the Universe, again the totally erroneous concept of being the center of the Universe, we are bunch of crazed, really insane and very primitive little monkeys, with just a spark of Humanity in us, not Human Beings at all as we like to believe in total blindness and arrogance, not only we are not alone, we are the very lowest of all civilizations in the Universe, it is time to wake up to our real situation and position in the Cosmos !!!! Just look at the Solar System: in order to keep the planets moving continuously around the sun and also maintain consistently a structure with a high level of order, it is obvious that an enormous input of energy is necessary to be made available continuously, well, this has been going on for BILLIONS of years, constantly, no diminution at all !!!! Moreover: scientists have found rocks that are hundreds of millions of years old, obviously the atoms within these rocks must have remained intact all this time, otherwise the bonds between them would have vanished and the rocks themselves would have disintegrated millions of years before we would have had a chance to discover them, their discovery proves that the internal structure of those atoms remained consistently functioning "unperturbed" ( small humorous remark ) for a very, very long time, meaning that the electrons orbiting the nucleus had, for all this time, a quite considerable input of energy, extremely consistent, never ever "slacking" ( another humorous remark ), necessary to counteract the much greater energy of attraction of the protons in the nucleus, otherwise they would have collapsed into it, but they never did, they always had an abundant supply of energy and moreover, the same "exact" supply for millions of years, otherwise the general atomic structure would have degraded to the point of becoming totally useless and the rock containing them would have disintegrated, which proves the existence of an incredibly orderly Universe, governed by Laws of a Power and Accuracy and Totally Reliable Consistency, unimaginable to us, beyond our very pathetic and simplistic comprehension, chaos is totally alien to the Universe there are only degrees of order, always profound order, chaos cannot and therefore does not exist in the Universe, it is not possible, it would be unbelievably stupid, a totally ridiculous contradiction, considering the amazing Intelligence, well beyond our comprehension running it and governing it, just look at your own body, composed of quadrillions of atoms meaningfully linked together, it could not exist for even an "atto" second as a meaningful structure if there was any chaos at all in the Universe, period, proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt. This two facts, and there is an immense number of these facts FROM THE MICRO TO THE MACRO, such as the origin of stars and their "life cycle", the formation of galaxies, clusters, superclusters, their highly complex interactions, the structure of atoms, etc, etc..... prove unequivocally that the Mighty Universe has energies that are eternal, they do not get tired, they go on and on, forever, they never diminish in strength and that their "administration" and governance is way beyond superhuman capabilities in its utterly amazing sophistication and wonderful exactness, it is awesome to me, well beyond, my pathetic little brain ( in a cosmic sense ) and any pathetic little words I might utter, I am speechless, I just don't know what to say, I just gape in absolute astonishment....the Intelligence behind the functioning of the Universe is so beyond my tiny, tiny, little intelligence I cannot even fathom how immensely beyond it actually, really is, I just prostrate myself most humbly and respectfully before its Eternal, Magnificent, Majestic Presence, I am just a very little baby, what I coined as a "cosmic toddler", poor little me how little I am....in comparison with THE UNIVERSE !!!!!!!!!how very, very tiny, tiny.... The principle of conservation of energy and momentum, the laws of thermodynamics, the principle of entropy are the pathetic "inventions" of very primitive "creatures", they are totally invalid, they cannot even begin to explain how the Universe works, and neither can mathematics, another of our silly inventions, because mathematics is highly linear and the Universe is profoundly non-linear and anisotropic, no match at all. Yes, there are "things" in the Universe that get depleted such as a piece of wood, we burn it and it cannot go on forever, it eventually becomes ashes and it cannot be burned anymore, yes, on the other hand there are Energies that exist and go on forever, inexhaustible. I intend to "plug in" to "tap" into these magnificent, inexhaustible, superabundant and free energies to power everything that stands and moves on this Earth safely....safely at last....And you can believe me: in COSMIC TERMS, the energy needed to power everything that stands, moves on, and flies over this Earth is just about nothing, not quite, but pretty close, a pathetic pittance, really, and I assure you, totally and absolutely that, we, as a species, do not have to kill ourselves and other living systems and eventually become extinct, by powering the world with highly poisonous, deadly sources of energy such as fossil fuels and atomic power, as we are doing right now, it is totally unnecessary and utterly insane, sheer madness Why is it unnecessary, it is because I have had the great good fortune to be able to acquire the knowledge necessary to safely power the planet, no need to kill anything, including ourselves, to power the planet quite safely, and it is my great hope that I will manifest into this world the already completed design of the electric generator which will do the job, residing now in my brain , before I depart from this realm of existence.... .It will save Humanity, now teetering at the edge of the abyss of extinction, the victim of its own greed and abuse of power, rapidly approaching the line irreversibility, where no remedy, however sophisticated will be able to save us after we cross it, we must really hurry before it is too late, otherwise we will be doomed to die a terrible death caused by our own very unfortunately and pathetic madness, stupidity blindness and lack of wisdom, for real and for sure, and these words are not an expression of judgment or blame, not at all, they are just a statement of actual fact, very objective indeed, and if we do not listen to the voice of reason and the voice of wisdom, we will suffer the deadly consequences, inevitably. The urgency for the deployment of this very special and unique electric generator all over this Earth cannot be overstated, IT IS the only really practical and effective solution to global warming which is the fundamental problem of our age, how we deal with it will determine whether our species will survive or not, it will replace fossil fuels and atomic energy, which are death traps to our species, it will be the SAFE source of energy that we so desperately need immediately. Yes, I know about "renewables" such as geothermal, solar, wind, tidal, biomass, biofuel, hydroelectric and I also know that they all have drawbacks which my machine does not have, I do not claim that it is perfect, it will generate a very small amount of heat, which can be used to warm your home when the weather is cold, or warm water. I do agree with all the scientists and engineers in the world that for any process at all to occur an input of energy is absolutely necessary and that includes all kinds of work, I also agree with all the scientists and engineers in the world that the energy necessary to produce work and all kinds of processes such as chemical, photochemical, fission, fusion, combustion, cellular ATP, etc....can be obtained from manipulations of matter where it has been stored, like the Sun's energy stored into the piece of wood we burn by the process of combustion, and also from naturally occuring processes, such as fusion taking place in a material body such as our own Sun, so burning wood is a dual process where the activity of a material body such as our Sun and our own lighting up of the piece of wood will produce controlled combustion. Obtaining the energy necessary to DO whatever by extracting it or tapping it from matter exclusively is a very old belief system millions of years old, even before our quite extraordinary invention of controlled wood combustion, quite unique for us, because not other animal on Earth can do It, only us, even before this quite amazing feat of our budding intelect, we tapped energy from wood lit up by naturally occuring LIGHTNING to which we added other pieces of wood not lit up to keep a fire going to warm ourselves and keep predators away, the great revolution of controlled wood combustion enabled us to expand our territory and move about, without depending on a much more primitive process which had to remain very local, and so we became much more independent and could choose better places to live. On the other hand, without realizing it, we became most profoundly brainwashed by our really great success of obtaining energy from matter strictly, even our greatest thinkers, philosophers, scientists, engineers up until today, In the 20the Century, an amazing and terrifying century where more knowlegde was acquired than in all the other centuries put together, quite amazing, nevertheless this very old belief was not changed and removed, except for the very few who, through past centuries belived that there was the possibility of extracting and/or tapping energy from energy or energies themselves directly, without dealing with matter at all. Though the centuries many machines were built and drawn with the purpose of doing this extraordinary work to no avail, none has worked so far, it has been and is the Holy Grail to free, inexhaustible and non-polluting energy to give Humanity a more fulfilling and secure life. I claim to be the one that has elucidated this Great Mystery the one lucky enough to have the very unique and extraordinary brain and the patience and amazing stubborness necessary for succeeding in this extremely difficult task.I firmly believe I have the design that will finally really work, just in time to save Humanity from itself, there is no one else who knows what I know, and if Humanity or at least one person will not listen and support me on my truly heroic project before I leave this realm of existence, and what a relief will that be !!!!!!!!!, then, surely enough, Humanity shall perish and disappear forever from this Earth. I am well aware that the words above intimate that I am the one and only savior of Humanity and that I am Humanity's last and only chance to survive and that this assertion could be interpreted as a delusion of grandeur and I myself was very suspicious when this realization appeared in my brain, I said to myself, why me, yes I know I am a Great Genius, I have been endowed, not by my doing, with quite extraordinary mental capabilities, yes that is true, but, again why me, well I do not know, but I do know that I have been anointed to be the savior of the world, whenever I think of it I shake my head in amazement and disbelief and nevertheless there it is, this work I was born to do, which, believe me, I tried verfy hard to avoid and forget about it, ignore it, but I cannot, just like Moses could not refuse, even though he tried, the job of taking the Israelites through the Sinai desert to the promised land and thus saving them from extinction, even if he never set foot on it, he died before the arrival I don't think he liked his situation but he had no choice and neither have I, I am an agnostic and nevertheless I have asked, begged GOD ALMIGHTY to spare me the great troubles "tsura" I have had, I am having and I will certainly have in pursuing this astonishingly heroic path, against gigantic forces of evil and ignorant stupidity, very powerful, me ? who do I think I am, me ?, the goliath this David has deal with is much, much bigger than the "old one" and I cannot stop something incredibly powerful impels me inexorably, I can't help it I have to do it. Even though I am an agnostic, how many times I have begged, on my knees, oh please dear GOD AlMIGHTY please, when I go to sleep, please, please send your Angels and take me away from this hell of madness and brutality, perversity, incredible cruelty, including that of my own people agains the Palestinian People, I can't take it anymore I want the relief of death, to get out or here, I am crying, I am criying, no, to no avail, I cannot leave until I complete my job, oy vey tsures, oy vey tsures !!!! My situation is similar to Moses' in some ways, I am Jewish, and I do know that to save Humanity a very determined process of banishing forever fossil fuels and nuclear power as sources of energy must, absolutely must begin as soon as possible, certainly before the end of 2009, after that irreversibility will set and Humanity will be finished, inevitably that's for sure and this process, which begins with my proving scientifically, beyond the shadow of the doubt that my marvelous machine works will take more than half a century to be completed and by then I will certainly be long dead, never to witness the full realization of my goal, the salvation of the world. I know that since my knowledge is at least 200 years ahead of its time it would be totally useless to divulge it, nobody will believe it actually does work, nobody will try it out, I am the one who must build the generator and prove to the world that it does really work there is no other way around it, I am the one who has the unavoidable responsibility to do the job, there is no other way out period, nobody else but me, why me, and it is me, I have to do it no matter what oy what a situation, no fun at all, no fun at all !!!! And sometimes I ask myself why should I bother to struggle to save my insane species who thinks they are human and they really are animals with a spark of humanity in them, they are not human, a real human being would be far above the crazy [word deleted] my species does day in and day out, they never learn, always making the same horrible mistakes, repeating history over and over and over and over....what idiots, and how incredibly blind they are, oy vey!!!! meshuga !!!! killing, torturing and enslaving in the name of democracy and freedom, just take a look at this bush ( I do not want to use capital letters they don't deserve it ) administration one of the worst pieces of [word deleted] the world has ever seen, and I am insulting [word deleted] calling them [word deleted], what's the point in saving these mad creatures, my species, destroying their own home the Earth until they will not be able to live in it, is that crazy or what !!!!they hurt themselves they hurt others, they fight for nothing, totally unnecessary, yes, they have some good in them, but very little, it is mostly mindless evil, greed, abuse of power, parents abusing their children and children abusing their parents, what kind of [word deleted] is that, there I go insulting [word deleted] again !!!!And I hear in my brain, don't argue, just do your job and you shall be relieved from living here, its your job and you have to do it, oy vey, why me!!!! I am so tired, I am 67 years old with all kinds of physical ailments and pains and I can't quit until I do this job !!!! Considering what this benevolent business will become, to ask for 400,000 american dollars as financial help to build a prototype scientifically working according to the Laws of Nature is less than a mere pittance, it is almost nothing, extremely reasonable, I can safely say, it is the most extraordinary opportunity in the history of Humanity for whoever chooses to become involved in this project, and anybody who cannot see the great importance and urgency of this endeavor, it is sorely lacking in foresight, vision, intelligence and creativity and kindness and compassion, which are essential, in great quantities for our species to survive its onslaught against itself and the Biosphere. The money will not go into my pockets, it will go directly to the professionals who will build the device according to my specific instructions. I don't get any money at all up-front. After the generator has been proven to work properly in a solid scientific manner, I will receive my well deserved financial reward, and not before. The design is totally ready, to be built immediately and there will be a contract which will protect me and also protect fully the extraordinary people who will work with me. It is impossible for me to steal your money, the setup prohibits it from happening, period. Added bonus: I addition to its inestimable contribution to the alleviation and eventual effective handling ( well, my name is Handler, so I should be able to "handle" it ) of global warming and climate change, my electric generators will have a myriad of beneficial effects, such as providing the enormous amount of clean, superabundant, free and inexhaustible energy vital for the "cleaning" of the air, sea, rivers and land, which we, as a mad and blind species, have polluted horribly, the recycling of wasted and mishandled resources, the "reforestation" of our very tragically depleted forests, etc. etc.... The fundamental motivation behind this project is to save Humanity from itself and the Biosphere from Humanity's onslaught of mad and blind plundering and pollution, thus alleviating the suffering and stress which all living beings on this Earth, from bacteria to us, are saddled with, because of our actions as a species. This majestically noble planetary purpose imparts on this project an aura of true greatness and real glory, which will be bestowed, as well, upon all persons associated with it at all levels. And the names of all these wonderful people will totally deserve to be written with golden letters in the Book of History. And Humanity will never forget that the right people appeared at the right time to fulfill the role of saviors, and will always remember them with the deepest gratitude and the highest respect. And these truly glorious people will walk the streets knowing how wonderful they are and knowing that nothing and nobody will be able to take away their blessed inner and outer radiance from them, because of the magnificent wonder they have bestowed upon this Earth. Thank you very much for your kind attention Sincerely Alfred Handler arhandler99@lycos.com Phone: 510-380-8293 U.S.A