Obviously, we are pursuing the wrong energy policy. Swift had an altogether better idea in Gulliver's Travels:
He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers." I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.
Brilliant! Anyone who proudly boasts about being on a "100% Renewable" electricity tariff should be made to watch that - preferably on a cold windless night...
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Obviously, we are pursuing the wrong energy policy. Swift had an altogether better idea in Gulliver's Travels:
He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers." I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.
He got the bit about begging right, too.
Brilliant! Anyone who proudly boasts about being on a "100% Renewable" electricity tariff should be made to watch that - preferably on a cold windless night...
Sam - things don't change much, do they?
Dave - and they should be put on a genuine 100% renewable electricity supply which goes off when the wind drops.
A recent email exchange:
Subject: cucumber
Just been eating the first fruits of that plant you donated, what variety is it? Never knew a cucumber could be so tasty!
HOME CUCUMBERS HAVE A TASTE! Tendergreen Burpless.
Burp Less! really!
Yep - that stopped people eating them - the wind!
"He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers,…"
Got that funding application wrong, should have pitched for windmills not solar.
djc - they don't make me burp. Come to think of it though, not much does apart from cheap lager.
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