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  • 1.  Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 20 days ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 3 days ago

     Hello Everyone @ ASES and Online Community

    We have been wintering well here at Sol-Era so far.  It has been pretty cold of late so indoors a lot doing projects like Sunspace renovation, Bay Windows, and Solar Heat Grabbers along with enhanced Furnace efficiency.  One of our most exciting projects was when we discovered a Company called SUNO.   Suno was founded in 2021 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a team of machine-learning experts and musicians: Mikey Shulman (CEO), Georg Kucsko (CTO), Martin Camacho, and Keenan Freyberg. The four co-founders met while working at Kensho Technologies, a company focused on AI solutions for business problems, specifically a project involving speech recognition for financial earnings calls. All four were also musicians or audiophiles who saw the potential for applying AI to music generation beyond speech.  This technology intrigued us, so we opened an account and began publishing some of our poems, songs and writings. We are developing a Solar Studio here at Sol-Era R & D and hopefully can tie all this all together into something very nice and special.  So just letting the Folks know what we been up to during this wonderful very cold winter here in Alabama.  The Link to Our site  after publication is The Cosmic Back Porch by Sol Knight

    We just started creating content this week but we have tons of material so expect lots more up & coming.. Thanks everyone again at ASES and all that you do for solar. And Thanks Ella for checking in on us..  



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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 2.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 20 days ago

    Thank you for all of your participation and support, Timothy! We're grateful to have you as part of the ASES solar community. Happy Holidays to you and yours!



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    Ella Nielsen
    Membership & Engagement Director
    American Solar Energy Society
    Boulder CO
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  • 3.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 20 days ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 20 days ago

    Thanks again Ella.  Happy Holidays to, You & Yours as well.   Hope all your projects go well. Looking forward to this Spring 2026. We believe it will be a great year for solar regardless of the perceived set backs that afterall will make the technology more resilient and steadfast.   Happy Trails Out There Always :)



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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 4.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 15 days ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 10 days ago

     

    Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, A Joyous Yule, Happy Las Posadas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Dongzhi, What ever Celebration you may have this time of year, but dont forget the Mother Earth's Winter Solstice for it is truly the reason for the season, and will exist in our folklore, religions, myths, and legends for all times immortal.

    https://medium.com/@solknight999/happy-winter-solstice-8073a97cce75



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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 5.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 8 days ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 3 days ago

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    Got Bored but got inspired so wrote a song. Hope you all enjoy.  Link Below to Recording! 

    SURVIVING 

    (The Restoration Song)

    Verse 1

    We all depend on something we don't see, Roots in the soil, breath in the trees. Every day we eat the gift of green, A living world in-between our dreams. Time walks barefoot on a cosmic shore, Thought-waves crash, then rise once more, Like holy rain on human skin, Reminding us where life begins.

    Pre-Chorus'

    Everything we need is here, right now, If we slow down, if we ask how. 

    Chorus,

    Open your eyes, open your heart, The way through the dark is where we start. No fear in the valley, no want in the land, The Earth is our shepherd, life in our hands. We are surviving, learning to see, Living together, wild and free. 

    Verse 2,

    Through the shadow, I walk unafraid, Guided by the paths that nature made. What do we want when our needs are met? Not gold, not power, not regret. After the storm, when the noise falls still, One clear thought bends human will: Live without greed, without the seed Of hunger that forgets what we need.

    Pre-Chorus,

     The balance is written in soil and stone, Take only enough, return what's grown.

    Chorus

    Open your eyes, open your heart, The way through the dark is where we start. No fear in the valley, no want in the land, The Earth is our shepherd, life in our hands. We are surviving, learning to see, Living together, wild and free.

     Bridge

    Seasons turn like a promise kept, Sunlight stored, rainwater slept In gardens, farms, and human space, Habitats that heal the race. We don't need to dig the ancient flame, The star above us burns the same. Here and now, clean and bright, Power the day, protect the night. 

    Verse 3

    It's time to begin again, reborn, A new America after the storm. Villages linked by common care, Self-sufficient, just and fair. Beyond the cults, beyond the ruts, Finding the courage, finding the guts To do the work, to evolve the role, Many hearts, one living soul.

    Final Chorus

    (Hopeful Lift) Open our eyes, open our hearts, The future begins with the smallest parts. No fear in the valley, no want in the land, The Earth is our shepherd, life in our hands. We are surviving-now we thrive, Restoring the world, keeping hope alive. 

    Outro

    Join the restoration, feel the revival rise, A living renaissance before our eyes. This time, for all time, we choose to care- A healed Earth, a future shared.

    Also the latest ones The New Year's Special 

    Sol Knight's Cosmic Back Porch Radio Show

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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 6.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 6 days ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 3 days ago

    Welcome to the Bortex Time Machine! Where multi-talent, multi-atmosphere, multi-topics, sub tropics inverted sun sonic elephant sounds like whales communicating vast distances over land and water. As doe the Primates we have Radio antenna insects vibrating never stagnating no stigma green peace. Keep it green, keep it cool breeze way back porch. Intergalactic intervention here on the cosmic porch with natural cooling techniques surveying pre-multiple earth creation theories with no stigma enigma from the white house natural forest public lands debate atmosphere rebate for more fresh water salmon. Fresh oxygen for all to breath yet beware faces and names there all the same to the Bortex Time Machine. So in kind it spews out abundance surveying time as we stand on open primitive fields conveying natural elevations of existing space into what we make of its contour lines expanding the known universe as multiple Earth theories become realities. We discover more Earthlike Planets in various stages of similar earth evolutions most in the early vegetation era covered in tropical plants, rain forest and oceans. The expectations of transplanting animal lifeforms to these environs will give new meaning for space exploration with the prime purpose of expanding life into the cosmos where no stigma exist. Extinguish stigma explode the exploit. Explicit experience all that exist, expand the expedition, execute, exercise, extravagance, evoking, examination exchange of ethical esteem, before major epidemic machines change weather weathering down to disorder next episode of entering enticing enterprise running on enigma enhancing the stigma growth to enormous proportions. An empire of emotion overlords employ the mind disease to devastate deteriorate detonate destiny demolish stigma. Cunning stigma curse hanging over the cities raining their terror thru the time tubes before your very eyes. To realize the torrent tornado torment toxic hot heatwave transparent to radical remorse no relief air conditioning under these conditions heating up the outdoors thru false cooling multiple floors where to many reluctant religions face off in heated streets pointing to the renegade remedy remembering natural forest. Don't sign the Bill, Bill. Don't make any evil deals. Reverberate, reverberate, reverberate reverse revile revise, revile revote, revolt, reveal, reword that universal law it reaps what it sows. Ritual of natural Karma resurrecting the retribution wheeling tornadoes fortress against nature. The holder of the fountain of youth with the waters of life fragile gorilla grammar gossip gospel of the inevitable truth of industry conquest, inquest, infest survey insignia jeopardy jelly jungle quest for the magic paper Monkey's Planet of the Apes Bortex Time Machine shuts it all down, as the Sounds of Silence plays for the last time "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls" As they all bowed and prayed to the AI God they made. 

    Full Album Here

    The Cosmic Back Porch

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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 7.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 5 days ago

    Good God Tim... what are you smoking...

    BTW: time travel is not possible, BUT, it has made Hollywood a fortune....billions in fact....

    There is a difference between an enthusiastic salesman and someone whose feet have left the ground...

    happy new year I suppose....



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    william fitch
    Owner
    www.WeAreSolar.com
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  • 8.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 5 days ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 3 days ago

    We made such good time, on our journey that we totally lost track of time. Timeless.  Time is relative.  Bill thank you for your time.  We will get back to you when we have the time. Take time, make time to do all the important things in life. Timeless bliss we never miss. Time is what we make of it so make your time the best time ever.  We all here might be a little ahead of our time.  Time out!  Happy New Year  BILL 🤠

    Sol Knight Group Music On Spotify

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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 9.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted yesterday
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    The Unconquered Sun



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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 10.  RE: Solar On the Rise

    Posted 23 hours ago
    Edited by Windy Dankoff 23 hours ago
    imageKeep the tradition alive!     ( image credit:  Mark Chalom, SB )


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    Windy Dankoff
    Author, Solar Water Pumping Specialist
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  • 11.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 9 hours ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 7 hours ago
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    Putting together an Album dedicated to our Star  " The SUN "  here is a preview of one of the songs
    Click attachment to hear latest recording from studio 
    Houses of the Sun
     
     
    In the dawn when the temples were carved from stone,
    Under desert skies where the Nile had grown,
    A bull of gold in the firelight gleamed,
    When Taurus rose and the Sun was crowned king.
    Ancient horns to the heavens raised,
    Men followed stars in a simpler age,
    But the sky kept turning, slow and sure,
    And time whispered, this won't endure.
     
    Pre-Chorus
    Every age has a sign in the sky,
    Every throne must someday pass by.
     
    Chorus
    We follow the Sun through the houses of time,
    From age to age, one sacred line,
    In my Father's house, many mansions stand,
    Written in stars, not built by hands.
    The wheel keeps turning, the truth unfolds,
    Old gods fade, new stories told.
     
    Verse 2 – Aries
    Then the Ram broke free from the eastern gate,
    Trumpets of horn sealed Israel's fate,
    A lamb on the altar, a promise sworn,
    Fire on the mountain, a law was born.
    Moses climbed where the lightning spoke,
    A burning bush and a shattered yoke,
    The age demanded blood and flame,
    And heaven and earth no longer the same.
     
    Pre-Chorus
    The sky moved on, the equinox slipped,
    Another crown from the heavens tipped.
     
    Chorus
    We follow the Sun through the houses of time,
    From age to age, one sacred line,
    In my Father's house, many mansions stand,
    Written in stars, not built by hands.
    The wheel keeps turning, the truth unfolds,
    Old gods fade, new stories told.
     
    Verse 3 – Pisces
    Then came the Fish in the Galilee tide,
    A man who spoke of the world inside,
    "Follow me," by the water's edge,
    "I'll make you fishers," a sacred pledge.
    Loaves and fishes, the symbol grew,
    Faith in the deep where the nets fell through,
    Two thousand years beneath watery skies,
    Belief was born where reason sleeps.
     
    Bridge 
    A man with a pitcher walks through the gate,
    Water in hand at the hour of fate,
    Follow him where the doorway bends,
    For the age you know is near its end.
     
    Verse 4- Aquarius
    Now the Water Bearer lifts the stream,
    Pouring out light where minds can dream,
    Science wakes and the blind can see,
    Knowledge flows like a living sea.
    No golden calf, no blood-stained crown,
    No walls to keep the questions down,
    The stars remind us who we are,
    Children of Earth, flame of a star.
     
    Final Chorus
    We follow the Sun through the houses of time,
    From age to age, one sacred line,
    In my Father's house, many mansions stand,
    Written in stars, not built by hands.
    The wheel keeps turning, the truth appears,
    Not bound by fear, not ruled by years.
     
    Outro
    This is not dogma, not chains, not proof,
    Just the sky telling stories, ancient truth,
    The ages pass, but the lesson stays-
    Know yourself… and greet the day.



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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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  • 12.  RE: Solar On the Rise

    ASES Life Member
    Posted 6 hours ago

    This is incredible Timothy! I like the freestylin!

    Thanks for sharing,

    carly



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    Carly Rixham
    American Solar Energy Society
    Boulder CO
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  • 13.  RE: Solar On the Rise

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    Posted 4 hours ago
    Edited by Timothy Mcbride 3 hours ago

    Thank you so much, Carly   

    That means a lot, still brainstorming everyday since this thing seems to be taking off.

    Freestylin !    Solar On The Rise is no surprise!

    "Solar On The Rise "  Is a sentiment reflected by current energy trends, as solar power has become the single fastest-growing source of energy in the U.S. and globally, driven by favorable economics and increasing concerns over energy costs and climate change. In 2024, solar, wind, and battery storage accounted for 93% of all new electricity generating capacity added to the U.S. grid.  The cost of installing solar has plummeted by more than 70% in the last decade, making it a highly cost-effective energy solution. Homeowners and businesses are primarily motivated by a strong return on investment, predictable energy costs, and the ability to reduce or eliminate electricity bills. The world is on track to install a record of solar capacity in 2026/27, a huge  increase  with China, the U.S., India, Germany, and Brazil leading the growth. Concerns about rising utility prices and grid reliability due to extreme weather events are pushing more consumers toward solar power for long-term stability and resilience. The solar industry is adding jobs faster than the rest of the economy and employs more people than many other energy sectors, contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.  Despite some policy shifts and supply chain constraints, the momentum for solar energy is expected to continue.  Industry experts and analysts continue to revise solar growth forecasts upwards, indicating an ongoing and irreversible trend towards renewable energy dominance.

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    Timothy Mcbride
    CEOOwner
    Sol-Era R & D
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