(1) Lights that come on when someone approaches are helpful in deterring the casual thief.
(2) If you need to go out at night, an outside lamp will prevent you slipping or bumping into anything;
(3) Outdoor lamps, cleverly placed, may enhance the beauty of the outdoor parts of your home, making them more inviting to friends and visitors.

Solar lighting is inexpensive, easy to install and versatile. Some of its possibilities are:

Motion sensor lights
They are essential for home safety and security. They are available in the traditional and modern designs you associate with sensor lights. Only now you can get them with a solar-powered option which require no outlet or wiring and so are easy to install and can be located where you want.

Step lights
These are extremely useful for lighhting your way in tricky places away from your patio. They actually illuminate the steps so you can see where you are going. This makes it easier for you and your friends to get around at night and lessens the chance of that occasional fall which can sometimes be so painful.

Post lights and lamps
The traditional post lamp which sits on top of a post. It is now available as a solar light and there are new…solar-powered post lights which also fit on top of the pole to create an upward light… These are very effective in giving a special and unusual effect.

Torches
Especially-shaped solar-powered lights that look like torches (without the flame of course) are also now available in any style you can think of and these are great for producing a special atmosphere effect.

Use your imagination. There are still more solar lights which have been designed specifically for use on decks and patios. It is up to you to create your best design.

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I just thought about it.

If I use like 20 magnifying lenses and arrange them so that all of them catch sun light and magnify it at a small tank holding like a cup of water, will it boil the water???

What I am saying is that, when a magnifying glass calibrates with sunlight, it literally can start fires,so can a few of them start to boil water?

I am thinking about a miniature version of those boiling water soar farms like in Spain. Solar Furnaces.

Would it work?

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The last time NASA sent people to the moon, they landed somewhere near the moon’s equator. It was simpler to get home from there and safer for those early missions.

But as NASA plans to return astronauts to the moon in the coming decades, it is the moon’s north and south poles that scientists and engineers are aiming for – drawn by the prospect of perpetual sunlight, water ice, intriguing geology and a gentler environment.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab will help the agency prepare for those missions. The lab, near Laurel, won a contract to lead a four-year, .9 million study for NASA.

A team of 30 scientists from several institutions, led by APL planetary scientist Ben Bussey, will use data from lunar missions to provide basic information for such a trip. Specifically, the team will:

•Scout for safe landing sites, the most likely places to find water ice, and the most promising places to probe the moon’s early history.

•Try to map the unique lighting at the moon’s poles, looking for places where the sun’s energy is constant.

•Develop plans for astronomy and other science that can be tackled only from the unique vantage point of the moon’s poles.

"The primary reason for going back to the poles … is the lighting," Bussey said in an interview. Unlike the Earth’s polar regions, the moon’s poles offer more relatively benign conditions of sunlight and temperature.

Apollo astronauts spent only a few days on the surface, and all landed near the moon’s equator. But astronauts on extended stays near the equator would face 14 Earth days of sunlight, followed by 14 days of darkness. Temperatures would blaze to 250degrees Fahrenheit, then plummet to 250-below.

At the poles, however, the sun may shine nearly all the time, a low, steady light that circles the sky, near the horizon, once every 28 days. Temperatures would stay closer to minus-50 degrees F – arctic conditions, for sure, but far easier for lunar base engineers to design for.

"Nothing is easy, but the fact you’ve got less [temperature] change makes it an easier engineering problem," Bussey said.

Base planners are drawn to the poles, too, by the prospect of finding places – probably on high mountains or crater rims – that enjoy perpetual sunshine, which could provide a reliable and steady source of electric power and outdoor illumination for a lunar base. But scientists still haven’t identified those places.

One goal of the APL-led project is to produce a year-round "illumination map" of the polar regions, using imagery from past, current and future missions to establish precisely where explorers might find the most sunlight.

Or darkness. Scientists believe the floors of some deep polar craters may be perpetually shaded by the surrounding rims and mountains. Temperatures there – minus-364 degrees – might preserve buried deposits of water ice left eons ago by crashing icy comets or asteroids.

If so (and if it can be extracted), the water might help sustain a lunar base, saving NASA the expense of hauling water from Earth. With solar energy, water also might be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, providing rocket fuel for the flight home.

Data gathered by NASA’s Clementine orbiter in 1994 and the Lunar Prospector mission in 1998 and 1999, have yielded tantalizing hints with remote sensing but "nothing definitive" about the presence of water at the moon’s poles, Bussey said.

The APL team will look at that data again and consider new evidence from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, due to launch in April. But definitive proof, he said, must wait for robot landers. "You have to go down to the surface," he said.

Others on the team will use polar images to begin measuring slopes and rock distributions, looking for safe landing sites and promising base locations.

And with the promise of a permanent, manned base at one of the moon’s poles, APL-led investigators also will explore what kinds of scientists could make best use of the vantage point.

Planetary geologists, for example, might want to drill into layers of rock and ice for clues to the early history of the solar system. Polar exploration could provide insight into early comet and asteroid impacts on the moon and on Earth, where 4.5 billion years of weathering and continental drift have erased the evidence.

The south pole’s Aitken Basin, the moon’s biggest, deepest impact crater, will be a key target. That asteroid strike "probably stripped off the entire lunar crust," Bussey said, "so we’ll have part of the inner mantle on or close to the surface. That will tell us a lot about the history of the moon."

Another team member, Mark Postman, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, will exp

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Monsters: 22
3 Jain, Lightsworn Paladin
2 Wulf, Lightsworn Beast
2 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
2 Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner
1 Gladiator Beast Bestiari
2 Gladiator Beast Darius
2 Kuraz the Light Monarch
2 Gladiator Beast Andal
1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
1 Neo – Spacian Grand Mole
2 Gladiator Beast Equeste
1 Gladiator Beast Dimacari
1 Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid

Spells: 14
2 Monster Reincarnation
1 Foolish Burial
1 Cold Wave
1 Solar Recharge
2 Realm of Light
2 Enemy controller (or Shrink?)
1 Monster Reborn
1 Smashing Ground
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Charge of the Light Brigade

Traps: 9
2 Dust Tornado
1 Torrential Tribute
2 Threatening Roar (or Waboku?)
2 Light Spiral
2 Bottomless Trap Hole

Those are the only Lightsworn monsters he has. And the reason for the Kurazes is that this deck faces my Macro Monarch deck. So any suggestions welcome.

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monsters:
gragonith-2
jenis
card trooper
rinyan
lumina
wulf-3
aurkus-2
marshmallon
garoth
shire
JD-2(i want another)
honest
jain-3
celestia

spells:
charge of light
solar recharge-2
book of eclipse
lightsworn sabre
M.S.T-2
monster reincarnation
follish burial
relm of light
mage power
monster reborn
scrap iron scarecrow
bekoning light-2
no entry
compulsory evac device
magic cylinder
negate attack
torrental tribute(plan on taking out its too slow)
mirror force

and ill post another with the same name after i update my deck (lightsworn deck help UPDATE)

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x3 Solar flare dragons
x3 Ufo Turtles
x3 Volcanic Slicers
x2 Ultimate Baseball Kid
x2 Raging Flame Sprite
x2 Inferno
x1 Thestaleos the fie monarch
x1 Lava golem
x1 Chthonian Emporer Dragon
x2 Gaia Soul Combustible Collective
MONSTERS-20

x1 Monster Reborn
x1 Lighting Vortex
x1 Smashing Ground
x1 Nobleman of Crossout
x1 Pot of Avarice
x3 Soul of Fire
x1 Heavy Storm
x1 Swords of revealing light
x1 MST
x1 Dark Room of Nightmare
x2 Double Summon
MAGICS 14

x3 Sakueratsu Armor
x1 Ceasefire
x3 Spiritual Fire art Kuneami
x1 Backfire
x1 Magic Cylinder
TRAPS 9

What changes do you think i should make if any.
I forgot this
x2 The Thing Inside The Crater

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