Electricity

August 17th, 2005

A passing comment by someone at lunchtime…

“You could put turbines at the tops of pylons. Just stick it in a big square frame or something”

Wow. Wind powered pylons, carrying the electricity that they generate. Who should I tell about this? The world needs to know.

I’ve been getting freaked out recently at the number of ways that the world could be destroyed with me on it. The world is a distressingly fragile place and we need to get off it as soon as possible. Never mind this ‘destroyed by the hand of man’ crap; the world is perfectly prepared to destroy us all in the blink of an eye with or without us burning all the oil we can find. Mother nature has hated us ever since we stopped being apes, possibly longer.

Here is a brief list of some of the things that currently scare me on an armagedon scale.

• The sudden onset of an ice-age. No-one knows what triggers ice-ages, only that they happen incredibly quickly.
• The flipping of the Earth’s magnetic field, resulting in our atmosphere being swept away by cosmic winds.
• A catastrophic meteor strike. We’d have no warning, and a warning probably wouldn’t help anyway.
• An exploding super-volcano.
• A worldwide influenza pandemic.
• Some kind of major war.
• The unpredictable climactic effects of a sudden halt in the burning of oil due to putting turbines on the tops of pylons.

Not only would that last one be potentially terrible, but it would also be partly my fault because I blogged it first. Not only this, but this blog post destroys any hope of getting a patent for the idea since everybody now knows about it. This means I’ll be cooked alive in the Earth’s burning atmosphere completely penniless.

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