Five Northeastern University student-researchers
have worked to address the worldwide water crisis, designing a solar-powered
desalination system that produces potable ocean water. They created the device
for their senior capstone project, which was supervised by mechanical and
industrial engineering professor Mohammad Taslim. Team members comprised Eric
Anderson, Jon Moll, Dave Rapp, Murphy Rutledge, and Ryan Wasserman, all E'15.
In their project report, the students pointed to
the urgent need to solve the global water shortage: Some 750 million people
lack access to clean water, according to water.org, and approximately 840,000
people die each year from a water related disease. Indeed, the water crisis
represents the greatest risk facing the world today.
"We wanted to work on this project precisely
because of the world's water problem," said Wasserman, who recently
graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
"Developing nations like Haiti need a cost-effective method for obtaining
usable water without power input." May 19 http://phys.org/news/2015-05-capstone-aims-global-shortage.html
The news
comes to us on the eve of a powerful Sun-Saturn opposition of May 22. A chart
for the opposition drawn for Boston,MA where Northeastern University is located is
shown here. The configuration relevant to our discussion is the Grand Cross
straddling the meridian axis. The Uranus-Pluto element of the Grand Cross is
linked to scientific and technological breakthroughs. Key phrases for the TNP Zeus placed on the MC
are [1]
ZEUS: Restrained
or creative fire/energy; enthusiasm; controlled & directed forces (thus
both planning and controlling strong emotions;) guns, power tools, machines,
motors, fireplaces, fuels; excitement; to incite; military; blood pressure; ability
to harness energies for accomplishment.
If we
combine Uranus-Pluto with Zeus we can see why a technological breakthrough in
concentrating and harnessing the Sun’s energy has been achieved. But why is
this invention connected with water? The answer is contained in the fourth leg
of the Grand Cross. Venus is in the
water sign Cancer but more specifically it is conjunct the star zeta Geminorum
[15cn] which was part of the Chinese asterism Tsing, The Well – a symbolic
reference to a source of clean and pure water.
Finally,
notice that the Sun-Saturn axis forms hard aspects to all the four legs of the
Grand Cross. Saturn [1sa38] is conjunct the star Kornephoros [1sa17]. Beta (β)
Hercules, Kornephoros, is a pale yellow star on the right shoulder of the
Kneeling Man. About the constellation, Nick Fiorenza [2] writes:
Hercules stands
upside down in the northern Heavens, above Ophiuchus and this entire scene,
with his feet (foundation) in the celestial dome (seven Heavens), in the realm
of the gods, and with his head and hands at work in the realm of humankind. Hercules is one seeded from another realm, who
is intimately aware of the dilemma of this realm and its cause (the
amalgamation of those from the heavens with those from the Earth). His presence
upon this solar system's (soul's) incarnational plane is thus of a service
capacity and mission of evolutionary proportion. With his head and other hand,
Hercules demonstrably aids those in the incarnate world to claim their freedom
from perpetuated entrapment. Sarin and Kornephorus form the shoulder of Hercules. These stars
embody the essence of Hercules' "sense of responsibility" to aid
others in attaining their freedom in life.
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