Re a drop of golden sun

Encient Egyptians worshipped the Sun god, commonly named as Ra. It is also believed that the original prouonciation might be Rei, hence the alternative spelling suggested is Re (wikipedia). The original meaning is not clear. It could have been a name for the Sun. It could also probably mean "creative". In India, the Sun was one of the chief Deity in the Vedic times.



In the past three thousand years or so, the Sun lost its place to other deities. However, we are about to rectify the mistake. The Sun will soon take the revered position. I am not saying that there will be cults or religions that will accept him as a new God. But even in deeper sense we will start worshipping him, not by singing him hymns or asking him for salvation, but truely depending on the Sun for our existence.



Don't get me wrong, we already do. We owe our existence to the Sun. If the Sun weren't there, we would not be on this earth. Morever, we depend on the whole cycle of nature that generates food and livelihood for us - the cycle that is powered by the sun. And our societies are powered by oil or coal, that was generated and stored in the Earth's crust because of the bounty from the Sun.



Things are going to change. And change for the better. Instead of the stored energy like the stale frozen food, we will harvest the sun directly for a cleaner source of energy.



Think about this. The total energy consumption of the world including oil, coal, hydroelectric is sizable at 15 Terra watts. (Terra watts is thousand Giga watts, and Giga is thousand mega and so on. ) This is huge - because it means per person it is ~2.3 kilo watt. But it is puny compared to what the Sun delivers to the Earth - whopping 85,000 Terra watts. Compare the current usage of 15 to the available 85,000! It's like using 0.02 percent of what is available. Imagine you are getting $2,000 a month, and spending it alll. But what if someone told you that you are throwing away you could earn $10,000,000 a month!



Of course all of that 85,000 is not usable, a lot goes in the seas to warm the planet and maintaining the ecosystem. But 0.02% will hardly be missed.



If you look at the humanity as an organism, we are right now in the egg stage, about to break out into the open. The egg contains essetial proteins and nutrients, so that the bird can grow and build itself. The stored nutrients are essential for the growth. But when those supplies dwindles, the bird breaks the egg, comes outside into the open world to find food on its own and breathe fresh air. Right now we are cracking the egg open. The egg is about to hatch. Outside there is free air, open world that has no bounds.