Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Nanogenerator Converts Tiny Movements to Electric Current

The above is a headline from a science article. The article talks about blah blah blah and hope and progress and making life blah blah blah. At leasts that's how I read it.

But what I'm looking for is reducing my electric bill right now. All the electricity that has ever existed or will ever exist is 'currently' available right now. And I want it.

TV remotes should have built in generators, so that when I'm flipping through my available 216 stations, I'm generating enough power to provide for a day's worth of electricity.

And I don't mean to be salacious or unseemly, but if there were a motion-activated generator that could be strapped to the major hand of males between the ages of 13 & 83, America could shut down all our coal powered generating plants.

Humans evolved as action figures. We are full of mechanical energy that needs to be harnessed. Although there does remain the problem of our exhalations: we are carbon producers. The ideal situation would be to alter the genetic code of... oh, say females, so that they start inhaling carbon and exhaling oxygen. Then when the bank robbers lock the hostages in the bank vault, with only two hours of oxygen, we won't have to stress out because as long as there are some female hostages, they can live in there forever.

See? This is what's called "planning ahead." (as opposed to when your remodel a house and are planning a head.)

Now go out and slease the day.

1 comment:

T said...

You are definitely on to something.
This may be a little crude, but back to the 'major hand of males'. From a famous (male) author: "There are two, (2), types of men: Those that admit they masturbate and liars."
Now think of the energy production!