Life Is Not Easy; Life Is Not Fair

Copyright (c) 2006 Audrey Burton

Life Is Not Easy; Life Is Not Fair

Life Is Not Easy; Life Is Not Fair

Why would an ordinarily arresting someone select to be uninspired? We all have choices in life, so why select apathy, negativity and/or fear? Mostly, people make the choices they do because it serves them in some way and perhaps they fear the unknown. I have heard this referred to as the "comfort zone"; although I couldn't tell you what's comfortable about misery and self-doubt.

Two concepts that genuinely help me are "Life is not easy" and "Life is not fair." These may not sound very arresting or uplifting, but they help me all the time. Knowing in progress that life is not easy or fair aids me in accepting, dealing and forgiving. For example, my daughters lost their father over 2 years ago. It was difficult for all of us. I learned a lot about myself in this experience, and became a stronger someone - whether I wanted to or not.

Believing that life is not easy or fair made it easier to deal with reality. Many, many children have grown up without a father and lead very happy lives. We were fortunate in many ways compared to other children. They knew their Dad and had a great relationship with him, he wasn't killed in war and didn't suffer a terrible disease like Aids - many children must deal with these situations today. It's genuinely not fair, but we're not alone, and we count our blessings.

My younger daughter has a habit of comparing herself to others and worrying what others are thinking about her. Having a deep insight that life isn't fair genuinely helps both of us in these situations. Comparing ourselves to others is a perilous business! every person has their gifts, and they are not all the time apparent.

It's easy to see when someone has the gift of outer beauty, but not so easy to see when someone has the gift of curative or perception. While my daughter may be smart and have other gifts, it isn't fair for her to compare herself to someone else child who can run a mile in 7 minutes at age 10.

As adults, we feel judged, too. In some ways, this does serve us. We dress up and use our best manners when applying for work or trying to win a big compact because frankly, we are being judged. If, however, we don't go to the gym because we're afraid of being judged based on our appearance, that does much more harm. Nobody is great at all and we should appreciate not only others' gifts, but our own as well.

Fully insight the profundity of life being neither easy nor fair contributes to my happiness every day. I no longer blame and minimally judge. I don't waste energy with useless comparisons of outer attractiveness or success. Instead I put my energy into tasks and strategies that will ultimately supervene in happiness - for me and for others. I am happy because I work at it, and I am grateful.

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Life Is Not Easy; Life Is Not Fair

Copyright (c) 2006 Audrey Burton

Life Is Not Easy; Life Is Not Fair

Life Is Not Easy; Life Is Not Fair

Why would an generally animated man choose to be uninspired? We all have choices in life, so why choose apathy, negativity and/or fear? Mostly, people make the choices they do because it serves them in some way and perhaps they fear the unknown. I have heard this referred to as the "comfort zone"; although I couldn't tell you what's comfortable about misery and self-doubt.

Two concepts that nothing else but help me are "Life is not easy" and "Life is not fair." These may not sound very animated or uplifting, but they help me all the time. Knowing in strengthen that life is not easy or fair aids me in accepting, dealing and forgiving. For example, my daughters lost their father over 2 years ago. It was difficult for all of us. I learned a lot about myself in this experience, and became a stronger man - whether I wanted to or not.

Believing that life is not easy or fair made it easier to deal with reality. Many, many children have grown up without a father and lead very happy lives. We were fortunate in many ways compared to other children. They knew their Dad and had a great connection with him, he wasn't killed in war and didn't suffer a terrible disease like Aids - many children must deal with these situations today. It's nothing else but not fair, but we're not alone, and we count our blessings.

My younger daughter has a habit of comparing herself to others and worrying what others are mental about her. Having a deep comprehension that life isn't fair nothing else but helps both of us in these situations. Comparing ourselves to others is a hazardous business! every person has their gifts, and they are not all the time apparent.

It's easy to see when man has the gift of outer beauty, but not so easy to see when man has the gift of medical or perception. While my daughter may be smart and have other gifts, it isn't fair for her to collate herself to another child who can run a mile in 7 minutes at age 10.

As adults, we feel judged, too. In some ways, this does serve us. We dress up and use our best manners when applying for work or trying to win a big compact because frankly, we are being judged. If, however, we don't go to the gym because we're afraid of being judged based on our appearance, that does much more harm. Nobody is great at all things and we should appreciate not only others' gifts, but our own as well.

Fully comprehension the profundity of life being neither easy nor fair contributes to my happiness every day. I no longer blame and minimally judge. I don't waste energy with useless comparisons of outer beauty or success. Instead I put my energy into tasks and strategies that will finally supervene in happiness - for me and for others. I am happy because I work at it, and I am grateful.

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Bloom Energy's Being Beta Tested

What are fuel cells? They were invented over a century ago. There are the following technologies:

Bloom Energy's Being Beta Tested

Bloom Energy's Being Beta Tested

• Devices that have proton replacement membranes (Pem)
• Phosphoric acid f.c. (Pafcs)
• Molten carbonate f.c. (Mcfcs)

These have all required use of expensive precious metals, corrosive acids or hard to include molten materials. The execution of these options has only been marginally great than other power alternatives. In short they are not economically viable.

For many years devotee have agreed that solid oxide f.c. (Sofcc) are potentially the best of any technology of this design. Materials have low-cost attributes and have high electrical output. Until recently there were challenges stopping a market application of this technology because of the high temperature produced in its execution and these high temperatures are the reason that very high electrical efficiencies are produced with a range of fuels. If the negative problems in the application can be overcome then the last two factors growth the economies of the application.

Bloom power claims they have conquered the engineering problems that have stopped former applications. They claim their new technology is a flexible power platform with simultaneous multiple benefits that can be applied to a wide amount of applications while being clean, trustworthy and affordable.

The largest test to date of the "Bloom Box" is the facility at the Adobe Systems Headquarters in San Jose, California. This law was designed to provide 30% of the Adobe facilities' electrical needs. Other major corporations that have installed Bloom systems for their applications are: Band of America, Cox Enterprises, eBay, FedEx, Google, Staples and Wal-Mart.

Bloom power appears to have made some huge innovative engineering breakthroughs with fuel cell technology. This could help our country come to be more power sufficient and drastically sacrifice ample power costs for users. right on keep your eyes on any supplementary developments from this company.

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Growing Tulips Together With Summer Bloomers - rigorous Planning is the Key

If you love tulips, but hate that they fade so quickly, you'd probably like to find a way to merge your spring organery with a later blooming one, to keep the color alive in your yard.

Growing Tulips Together With Summer Bloomers - rigorous Planning is the Key

Growing Tulips Together With Summer Bloomers - rigorous Planning is the Key

Sounds simple, doesn't it? plainly plant complimentary plants alongside your tulip beds. But how do you know which plants are compatible? If you're not faithful in your choices, you might just end up killing one plant to save another.

You need to know a bit about the life cycle of a tulip to make a good decision.

First, the theorize you can't cut back or otherwise restrain those yellowing tulip leaves is because the tulip is conference energy straight through photosynthesis and storing it all up inside the bulb. The very same bulb you are hoping will bloom again and again. Without those leaves, the bulb won't have sufficient stored energy to produce a bloom next year.

During this time, your tulips need water and sun and food just like any other growing plant. Once the leaves have yellowed and withered, though, they require a dormancy period, preferably a dry one. This is why tulips tend to fare good in areas with hot, dry summers. You won't find tulips in the rain forest!

Here's where the problems come up. Say for example you've planted some annuals along side your tulips so that you can have some summer color in your organery as well. Those annuals are not going to take well to the hot dry conditions your tulip bulbs need, and unless you water them well, you're likely to end up with withered and dying annuals. But, if you do water them, you'll be drowning your tulip bulbs.

There are a merge of inherent solutions to this dilemma. One, you might want to lift your bulbs after the leaves have yellowed and been removed. Store them away someplace dark and dry until fall, when you can replant them. This plan works, but it's labor intensive.

You might also just decide to buy and plant tulip bulbs again in the fall. This is how a lot of habitancy do it, and it does work, but again it's labor intensive. The advantage to this formula over the last is that you don't have to let the leaves die off on their own. You can cut them down as soon as the flower is gone, since you're not worried about the bulb storing up energy for next season.

If you truly want to naturalize your tulips, though, you need to find plants that are compatible with the conditions required by dormant tulip bulbs. Look for plants which are known to be "drought tolerant" or "drought resistant." Many varieties, such as coneflower and Caryopteris will flower mid-summer straight through autumn, making them the perfect companions to a spring tulip bed.

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Speak Naturally, Speak Effectively - social Speaking Training

There is not one excellent way to give a speech, but as many excellent ways as there are people, although to speak effectively you must speak naturally.

Martin Luther King had the cadence and fervor of a preacher; President Clinton had a down-home charisma; and Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, in which he addressed the American people, over the radio, in his modulated and patrician way, made each listener feel he was speaking directly to him or her.

They were able to speak effectively, exceedingly so, because each was true to himself, and consequently could speak naturally.

Everyone is an original. But, unfortunately, a lot of speakers (and people in general) spend their days wishing they were somebody else.

The actor-trainers in our company are often told by those they coach in collective speaking, that they cannot excel because unlike speaker so-and-so they are reserved, shy, unused to displaying emotion, have a regional accent, or a speech impediment, (the list goes on.)

These can all be good things, along with the speech impediment, as audiences admire people who gracefully accept and work with their limitations; and shyness or retain can be attractive, as long as you do not fight them, but instead speak naturally.

You need not be a very expensed and emotional speaker to speak effectively. But you must be in harmony with your nature, true to who you are.

Fiorello LaGuardia all the time seemed true and natural. Affectionately dubbed "Little Flower" (the English equivalent of Fiorello), he was a character. At a portly five foot two, he was a complex, hot-tempered, ethical dynamo; spoke seven languages; and was a Republican-Episcopalian who had been raised in Arizona by a Jewish mother and an Italian-Roman Catholic-turned-atheist father. He is determined by many to have been New York's many mayor. And he had an earthy way of expressing himself.

In 1939, King George Vi and Queen Elizabeth became the first monarchs to visit the United States. In preparation, Americans had gone to great lengths to examine protocol, nervously studying what to say, what not to say, what to do, what not to do.

In New York City, amidst much fanfare, the Queen made a lengthy, formal speech in her clipped accent, and archly reserved manner. When at last it ended, legend has it that LaGuardia, joining her at the podium, exclaimed, "You sure said a mouthful Queenie!"

One wee sentence from "Little Flower" and protocol went down the drain. Were people scandalized? No, they were elated. Their Majesties took it in amble as well. An hilarious example of someone who could speak naturally, be himself to the hilt at a lectern, with resultant success.

And to quote the revolutionary 20th century choreographer, Martha Graham, "There is a vitality, a life force...that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you, the experience is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost..."

In other words, speak naturally, speak effectively, on the podium (and off). To thine own self be true.

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Carbohydrates Good and Bad

Carbohydrates have been on all of our minds ever since diets like Atkins and South Beach Diet told us to cut carbohydrates out of our as much as possible. Any way there are some facts You should know before you make a decision about what to eat. You need to know what carbohydrates do and how they work in your body.

Carbohydrates can be good or bad for you. It is foremost to eat good carbohydrates because they give a steady source of energy needed for the low intensity activities of daily life. Carbohydrates are well known for being in breads and grains but they can be found in some other food s like fruit and vegetables. When you try to operate your intake of carbohydrates you must think both the good and the bad.

Carbohydrates are basically sugar involved carbohydrates are the good crabs for your body foods like greens, onions, tomatoes, okra, soy beans , potatoes, fruit, whole grins, yogurt and rice are a few. These strings of sugar are difficult to break down and trap nutrients like vitamins and minerals. They are slower broken down and release the nutrients gradually giving energy over a duration of hours.

Bad carbohydrates are simple sugars precisely broken down and include very few nutrients in the sugar string. Your body breaks these down fast and what the body can not burn is stored as fat. Foods like table sugar, candy, soft drinks, fruit juice, most packaged cereals, baked goods like bread and pasta made with white flower, these are examples of bad crabs. Most diets advise staying away from simple carbohydrates.

More foremost than good crabs and bad crabs and how they react with your body is how you eat them. Some tips on salutary eating are eat lots of fruit and vegetables they include good crabs and also other foremost nutrients, replace white bread and bread products with whole grains. Look at data on box foods rich in fiber are probably good crabs.

Knowing the difference between good and bad carbohydrates is necessary for a salutary diet. It is not salutary to cut out carbohydrates altogether and is partially impossible unless you only eat meat. A salutary and balanced diet will include plentifulness of good carbohydrates.

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The grocery store was selling gorgeous African Violet plants. I bought 3, brought them home and grouped them on our dining table. As Del and I talked over morning meal I stared at the flowers.

They were beautiful. Each one was a shade of purple, with velvet green leaves. Each plant was different, each deeply gorgeous in its own way. As I stared at them, I realized that some of their blooms were spent, and some of their leaves had faded, so I began to pinch off the dead blooms and leaves. Of course every gardener knows how important it is to prune a plant so that none of its energy goes towards maintaining what is dead or dying. Pruning allows all of the essence of the plant to go to its budding and blooming.

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The plants became even more gorgeous as I pinched and pruned and the older blooms and leaves were removed. With more light and air into the town of the plants I could see a large whole of new buds in various stages of increase getting ready to bloom. And now of course, all of the plants resources were directed towards their growth.

How like our lives. Except most of us are not pruned well. We hold on to what is no longer needed in our lives, fearful of letting go of people, places, and things. We often live in the past because we believe that there is no future, not realizing that there are already buds that have bloomed, and new buds appearing in every life. But, when we let the old remain, our energy and attentiveness is drained away.

Just for a moment imagine yourself as a gorgeous plant. Are you planted in nutritious soil that encourages, supports and feeds you? Or are you living in depleted soil? Are you well watered, or do you allow periods of drought, maybe playing a game with yourself called, "let's see how long I can survive without this."

Are you a plant that loves shade or sun? Where are you planted? Does it hold what you need? Do you feed yourself well?

Since a plant can't stop itself from blooming when well tended, are you allowing yourself to bloom? Are there still dead and dying blooms and leaves on you? Do you just wait for them to fall off or do you prune them quickly? Do you see how gorgeous your current blooms are? Can you see how many new buds are forming that will continue to express what you are?

You live in a garden, called the universe. Have you noticed the beauty of the other plants colse to you? In an lesson of the Tv show "Rebecca's Garden" she spoke of how gorgeous a orchad becomes with the range of leaf, branch, flower shapes and color. It is the diversity of the orchad that brings its beauty to life. How diversified is your life? Are you trying to survive isolated from what supports you?

We are constantly reminded of the worldview that suggests that it is potential for our lives to not bloom. This worldview fosters fear by using the principle of lack as the groundwork of life. It encourages us to keep what we have, even if it no longer serves us. Although widely agreed with, whether through discouragement, fear or ignorance, there is no need to live within these conditions. It is only a perception, and all perceptions can be shifted.

It's an active choice.

The true ground of being has never changed. "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." And the instructions on how to live as this free time have remained the same, 'But, seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Bible - Mat 6:28)

This shift to seeking and insight the Principle of omnipresent animated Love, the governing force of all that is, reveals the ground of our being as a continual expression of the beauty of Life. Each of us contains all that we need, and will continue to contain all that we need to bloom. All that is required of us is to make an active option to tend our gardens well, and to let go of what is over so what is to come has room to bud and bloom.

After pruning the plants I headed to my office, with at least a exiguous hint of self-satisfaction. Later that day I stopped by the violets to admire their beauty. They did look beautiful. However, lying right beside them on the table was a pile of dead blooms and leaves. I had forgotten to throw them away. As we prune those dead leaves and blooms out of our lives we may be feeling very beautiful, but don't forget to completely throw them away rather than leaving the remains for others to clean up.

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The grocery store was selling gorgeous African Violet plants. I bought 3, brought them home and grouped them on our dining table. As Del and I talked over morning meal I stared at the flowers.

They were beautiful. Each one was a shade of purple, with velvet green leaves. Each plant was different, each deeply gorgeous in its own way. As I stared at them, I realized that some of their blooms were spent, and some of their leaves had faded, so I began to pinch off the dead blooms and leaves. Of policy every gardener knows how prominent it is to prune a plant so that none of its energy goes towards maintaining what is dead or dying. Pruning allows all of the essence of the plant to go to its budding and blooming.

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The plants became even more gorgeous as I pinched and pruned and the older blooms and leaves were removed. With more light and air into the center of the plants I could see a large estimate of new buds in discrete stages of growth getting ready to bloom. And now of course, all of the plants resources were directed towards their growth.

How like our lives. Except most of us are not pruned well. We hold on to what is no longer needed in our lives, fearful of letting go of people, places, and things. We often live in the past because we believe that there is no future, not realizing that there are already buds that have bloomed, and new buds appearing in every life. But, when we let the old remain, our energy and attentiveness is drained away.

Just for a occasion fantasize yourself as a gorgeous plant. Are you planted in nutritious soil that encourages, supports and feeds you? Or are you living in depleted soil? Are you well watered, or do you allow periods of drought, perhaps playing a game with yourself called, "let's see how long I can survive without this."

Are you a plant that loves shade or sun? Where are you planted? Does it keep what you need? Do you feed yourself well?

Since a plant can't stop itself from blooming when well tended, are you allowing yourself to bloom? Are there still dead and dying blooms and leaves on you? Do you just wait for them to fall off or do you prune them quickly? Do you see how gorgeous your current blooms are? Can you see how many new buds are forming that will continue to express what you are?

You live in a garden, called the universe. Have you noticed the beauty of the other plants nearby you? In an episode of the Tv show "Rebecca's Garden" she spoke of how gorgeous a organery becomes with the variety of leaf, branch, flower shapes and color. It is the diversity of the organery that brings its beauty to life. How diversified is your life? Are you trying to survive isolated from what supports you?

We are permanently reminded of the worldview that suggests that it is potential for our lives to not bloom. This worldview fosters fear by using the principle of lack as the groundwork of life. It encourages us to keep what we have, even if it no longer serves us. Although widely agreed with, whether straight through discouragement, fear or ignorance, there is no need to live within these conditions. It is only a perception, and all perceptions can be shifted.

It's an active choice.

The true ground of being has never changed. "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." And the instructions on how to live as this leisure have remained the same, 'But, seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Bible - Mat 6:28)

This shift to seeking and understanding the Principle of omnipresent keen Love, the governing force of all that is, reveals the ground of our being as a continual expression of the beauty of Life. Each of us contains all that we need, and will continue to include all that we need to bloom. All that is required of us is to make an active option to tend our gardens well, and to let go of what is over so what is to come has room to bud and bloom.

After pruning the plants I headed to my office, with at least a puny hint of self-satisfaction. Later that day I stopped by the violets to admire their beauty. They did look beautiful. However, lying right beside them on the table was a pile of dead blooms and leaves. I had forgotten to throw them away. As we prune those dead leaves and blooms out of our lives we may be feeling very beautiful, but don't forget to completely throw them away rather than leaving the remains for others to clean up.

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I often notice when visiting gardens the great quantities of Daffodils and other early bulbs that we plant to herald in the spring. But how do we ensure we have a great display each year?

The early flowering bulbs

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Quite a few seasoned gardeners have had their first horticultural "experience" by the planting of a few Daffodil or Tulip bulbs, thus spurring them onto more adventurous plantings. At the end of April the very early flowering bulbs will come to the end of their blooming season. This group of early bloomers includes Daffodils, Hyacinths, Bluebells, Crocus, Snowdrops and early Tulips. All these bulbs will flower well for any gardener the first growing season but for them to bloom well the following seasons we must give them some care.

Dieback not tieback

All bulbs leaves must be allowed a minimum of six weeks after flowering to die down, so if these bulbs are planted in a lawn that area of lawn must remain uncut for six weeks. Refrain from tying your Daffodil leaves in knots to neaten their appearance, also avoid folding them over and securing with rubber bands. If the bulbs leaves are simply allowed to die back then they will take in the energy for next years flowering. I would also advise nipping off the spent flower heads on bulbs once flowering is finished, this will prevent the bulb using vital energy for seed yield instead using all that energy to bulk up its food store for next season.

Don't forget to feed

The final tip for blooming bulbs next spring is to feed your bulbs, this is especially foremost if you have a hungry soil. Apply a foliar feed to the fully emerged leaves before the blooms start to form. Choose a normal purpose purpose liquid feed.I would also advise you to feed your bulbs just as the blooms have faded with a granular bulb fertiliser applied around the bulbs base. This is the most foremost feed they will receive. Ensure this feed has a higher potassium or potash content than nitrogen content. Apply according to the manufacturers instructions and heed protection warnings.

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Bloom Energy, ever heard of it? Until recently, most population hadn't. At seven hundred to eight hundred thousand dollars, it is no surprise that the median individual does not have much knowledge about this product. Ebay, Google, FedEx, and many other associates have been using this alternative energy source though, and with clear results.

Bloom Energy, founded by K.R. Sridhar, has created small fuel cell boxes, which they call "Bloom Boxes". Two of these small alternative fuel boxes have the capability to power a household in the United States, and in countries that use less energy, one may be enough. These boxes are about the size of a standard brick, and must be contained a larger unit, about the size of a refrigerator. These units could be stored covering the house, and would help provide clean, cheap energy.

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Colin Powell, who sits on the Bloom Energy board of directors, talked up the company 60 Minutes. The company has also had vital backing from investors such as Kleiner Perkins, totaling nearly four hundred million dollars in funding.

It is the hope of K.R. Sridhar that some day every home in the United States will be run off of Bloom Boxes. Unfortunately, with a six outline price tag, that time is not here yet. He does believe that in the next five to ten years, he will be able to get the price down to about three thousand dollars, which is more more realistic for the median American.

An estimated one and a half billion population currently live without electricity. That is nearly a quarter of the world's population. Bloom Energy may be a way to fix this problem. Bloom was listed by the World Economic Forum as one of twenty six company models that could not only advance the global economy, but also have a clear impact on people's lives.

There is still a lot that is not known about this associates plans. They have a very simply catch phrase, "Be The Solution". It seems simple enough, and very level forward. The cloud of strangeness should be lifted soon, as more and more information about the Bloom Box is reveled.

With a five to ten year time frame for your Bloom Box, how can population start salvage on energy now, while also helping the environment. The simplest way is to switch to an Energy assistance Company, or Esco. This is ready to population in deregulated states, such as New York, Texas, and Illinois.

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Fuel cells aren't new - electricity aboard the Gemini 5 spacecraft in 1965 came from one - but they aren't so space age anymore.

More businesses and local governments are relying on them to help cut their carbon footprint, capitalize on renewable fuels and to generate power. At least four systems are in the San Joaquin Valley and, as a Dec. 21 Los Angeles Times story noted, they are "popping up" throughout the state.

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Bloom Energy, a young Bay area company, has received lots of press lately for its fuel cells. A prominent soft drink maker announced this year that it would test fuel Bloom Energy cells powered by biogas at a plant in Dinuba, in Tulare County. The five cells could furnish approximately one-third of the plant's power, and cut its carbon footprint 35%.