{"id":5105,"date":"2014-02-08T12:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2014-03-25T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:57:15","slug":"all-the-visions-painting-our-yottawatt-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/08\/all-the-visions-painting-our-yottawatt-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All the Visions&#8221; Painting.  Our Yottawatt Sun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/oxford_chainscarf.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just finished another painting this week, <em>All the Visions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/106_allthevisions.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em> \u201cAll the Visions,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, February, 2014, 24\u201d\u009d x 20\u201d\u009d.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/106_allthevisions_1200.jpg\"> Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The painting is based on a photo taken in 1983, I think I used the timer on my camera and shot it myself.  Possibly my photographer friend David Abrams shot it. But I\u2019m guessing that I shot it, as I have the color print.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rucker_1982_allthevisions.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This has to do with a Kerouac-style novel called <em>All The Visions <\/em>that I wrote on a single long scroll of paper that year in Lynchburg, Virginia. (The photo shows a warm-up session when I wasn&#8217;t yet using the scroll). You can&#8217;t see the UFO in the photo, but it&#8217;s clear in the painting. I plan to reissue <em>All The Visions <\/em> via Transreal Books later in 2014 &#8212; it appeared from a small press, Ocean View Books, in 1991. I still have that rose red IBM Selectric typewriter in my basement. The acme of modern writing equipment in 1983. I wrote a lot of books on that thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/xiroanges.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise I\u2019m just hanging out, doing some work on a revision of <em>All the Visions<\/em>, also starting up on an SF story having to do with an extremely powerful laser.  I\u2019m thinking its power is at the yottawatt level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/alaskcribbage.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like these sequences of power prefixes, Kilowatt &#8212;> Megawatt &#8212;> Petawatt &#8212;> Exawatt &#8212;> Zettawatt &#8212;>  Yottawatt. There\u2019s a Wikipedia <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orders_of_magnitude_%28power%29\">page <\/a>explaining it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/naturalbridgesky.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our Sun\u2019s luminosity is 385 yottawatts.   But we don\u2019t get the full benefit of all this light.  Earth gets a steady illumination of about 174 petawatts from the Sun. How much does sunlight cost? How much would it cost to keep the light on?  Well, a kilowatt-hour costs 12 cents.  Call it 10 cents.  Sun gives us about 170 petawatts. So an hour of that is  170 trillion kilowatt hours.  So sunlight cost is 12 cents * 170 trillion per hour, which is about 20 trillion dollars per hour.  Average that out over 7 billion people.  About $3000 dollars per hour per person.  Call it two million a month. \u201cThe power bill\u2019s here!\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/museumsillho.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad that it\u2019s raining today.  All this weather for free.  And that amazing yottawatt sun driving the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished another painting this week, All the Visions. \u201cAll the Visions,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, February, 2014, 24\u201d\u009d x 20\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the painting. The painting is based on a photo taken in 1983, I think I used the timer on my camera and shot it myself. Possibly my photographer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}