Car Emissions
There was a good article in
The Onion yesterday about hydrogen cars depleting the world's hydrogen supplies. This got me started thinking about how anything that generates energy needs some input and will generate some output. It seems to me that current energy producers just find the easiest way to generate energy, then have the inputs and outputs fall into place. It would be better to first determine the inputs and outputs based on what we as a society don't and do like, then figure out how to get the energy in the process. Now, let me throw a few ideas into the ring so you will think I'm not all talk (though I secretly am all talk).
- Input: Dirty diapers. Output: iPods.
- Input: Tyrannical dictators. Output: Puppies
- Input: Anti-matter. Output: Matter
- Input: American Eagle clothes. Output: Abercrombie and Fitch clothes
- Input: Pennies. Output: Flattened pennies with cool logos on them
- Input: Birds. Output: Dead birds.
- Input: Gender-specific definite articles in foreign languages. Output: Gender-neutral definite articles (like 'the')
There are many other possible combinations. The only work left is figuring out how turning dirty diapers into iPods produces energy. Scientists, get cracking! Cancer and AIDS will have to wait.
Posted by mill1991 at June 17, 2004 10:02 AM