About Survive Solar

Survive Solar was born out a desire to help roll out the good, practical, sustainable and possibly life-saving technology to the common folk, and not just to the well-to-do.

People need a firm foundation to stand on in order to support themselves.

You can't do that in a world where everything seems to be getting more expensive, and everyday the common man's dollar is worth less and less. It' feels very much like standing in quicksand. The more one struggles the worse it seems to get, and the more hopeless it seems.

There is no place for hopelessness in the land of the brave and the free. No place for hopelessness in the land of opportunity, the hearth and home of the American dream.

The American dream is not to own a mansion with a white picket fence in the urban sprawl of suburbia. However ubiquitous that may seem. The American dream is that of living in a land of limitless potential. A land where one's success in life is limited only by one's grit and tenacity. A land with no glass ceiling that keeps you from uplifting yourself. A land without masters and a land without slaves. A land without kings, emperors, aristocrats, dictators or oligarchs, to deprive the people of their wealth, and to dictate who must toil, and who must reap. A land with no dead-end that one can get stuck in and never escape from.

In the land of the American dream, what you have, is what you deserve. It is what you have worked for. Nothing more, and nothing less. You are free to do honest work, unbothered and unburdened by the fear of having everything lost or everything taken away from you. The American dream is that of planting a seed, and being able to watch it sprout, grow, mature, and come to fruition.

Here at Survive Solar, we do our part to provide the people with raw electric power, to be the literal motive force behind achieving this American dream. It is our sincere hope that all people can benefit from the clean and limitless power of the sun.

My Part in The Green Revolution

Survive Solar was founded in 2023 by me, David Lopez

I have always known that I wanted to be part of the green revolution. Sustainable and human-friendly design is something near and dear to my heart. I learned early on in life that poorly designed buildings are harmful to the human body and to the human spirit. All you need to realize this is for the power to go out to experience that most buildings aren't designed to be self ventilating and many turn into an insufferable oven.

People have been constructing buildings that passive cool themselves and collect water since before the invention of electricity, before the invention of motors, hydraulics, computers, and heavy machinery. They did these things with just the geometry and material properties alone. So what happened? Why has technology progressed, and yet the quality of living has gotten worse? It's not good to get caught up in the trends, only to forget the basics.

I studied architecture as to play an active part in bringing passive, sustainable, human-friendly design and building practices to a world of superficial construction. Most builder s and developers don't care about the consequences of their construction, only about how fast they can get paid, for as little money and effort as possible. These buildings can be around for many many decades -- if not hundreds of years -- so inconsiderate construction can leave people stranded with many years of dissatisfaction and suffering as the reality of having to live in these structures sets in.

With a little planning and a little diligence, buildings can move from being a liability and a bother to live in, to being an asset that makes life easy and a pleasure. A good building ought to feel like it carries magic in it. That it is suffused with the wisdom of many generations of builders, that it does what feels improbable and marvelous, like stumbling upon an oasis in a desert. It should be something that you can be proud of and appreciate having around. A good building carries a certain holiness to it. It uplifts the heart. It doesn't just provide shelter, it provides sanctuary.

When There Is No Way Out

I grew up hearing the stories of the abject poverty my mother faced growing up in communist led Cuba. The kind of poverty where they didn't even have blankets cover themselves with in the winter, having to make do with old plastic potato sacks to try and keep warm.

Having gone to Cuba myself on many occasions I have seen this abject poverty with my own two eyes. Not just a material poverty, but a legal poverty of being locked down by a repressive government, being locked in by communist production laws, where people are disincentivized to produce, since the state merely comes and takes away the difference. So people can barely scrape by, and there is no hope of being able to better one's condition in life in any meaningful way.

The Kind of World I Want To Live In

I have come to the conclusion that there are two most important things in life; to obtain the means of sustaining life, and to guard those means without fail.

I want for people to be able to thrive; and they can't thrive if they can barely survive. People need to be allowed to make a strong foundation for themselves. You need to be able to jump before you can fly. You can't jump up if there nothing solid to stand on. Worse if you have quicksand trying to swallow you alive.

I want for people to be able to free themselves from the quicksand of economic uncertainty. That they have access to the raw economic resources in order to survive. That their ability to work and participate in the economy be secured, that their food be secured, their clean water be secured, their shelter be secured, their wealth be secured, and their power be secured. Everything in harmony and without interruption. This is the seed from which prosperity grows out from.

Tying It Back To Solar Power

I can't help with everything, but I can definitely help with the thing that is most delicate and insecure in this country, and yet the thing that is most easily fixed for good. A person's access to electric power.

Having to deal with being stranded without electric power is a thing of the past. We already have the technology to guarantee electric power to every single household and business, with the big power-grid providers or without them. And solar systems are not particularly expensive. Not beyond the means of a regular household.

Of all the means of electricity generation I've investigated, solar power has the greatest reliability and the lowest barrier to entry for the individual consumer, being able to provide electric power at a better yearly consumer price than a power plant burning carbon fuel. Distributed solar power systems don't need the massive size for the economies of scale to make it a viable option like a regular power plant. You don't need a huge power plant to make solar power work. You don't need to provide for the entire community. You need only provide for your own individual needs.

That's what makes solar power and solar panels revolutionary. They are small enough, cheap enough, and energy dense enough to install on a per building basis. And having no moving parts they are basically maintenance free. You don't need other people to make it work, or fallible systems that can collapse and leave you stranded. You already have everything you need, right where you need it.

That's why I believe in solar power. That's why it is the key needed to making America great again. That is the reason why I'm here to help bring about the solar power revolution, in our own country and throughout the world. I want for people to have more agency in what happens to them, that they have more control in their lives and in their fate.

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