Of humans and their ingenuity...

Gas prices are high, everyone is complaining about them. Lately we have come to express ourselves and react to bad news by sending funny forwards. Thats how this picture ended up in my mail box.

I was amused by human ingenuity. Even humor can precipitate invention. In my mind there was a huge clang! 

We have people designing space ships, satellites, robots that can collect (or try to) soil from martian surface, why can't they design a car that could run on alternate sources of energy.

I'm not talking about hybrids, I'm talking of a completely different cleaner car using an alternate form of energy. Driving should be like rain making, a win-win cycle wherein everything balances out, citrus paribus. (I am aware of the floods in Iowa and droughts in different parts of the world, which is definitely not a win-win, I'm ruling out exceptions and extremities ).

Say like in the picture, the vehicle ran on wind energy, or Solar energy.

I switched from the mail box and scrolled down the business news page and found that Honda has come up with a car that runs on a Hydrogen cell,the exhaust fumes being H2O. Water vapor. Am I dreaming, Man that was fast!!! you can read more about it here.

I realize that there will be CO2 emissions from this engine as well and also that the production of Hydrogen is expensive, but I'm sure they'll perfect it and sell something worthwhile and easily accessible to the masses soon.

About the car running on Solar Power, I wouldn't be surprised if someone runs out of the bathtub one of these days, with a eureka!!!, grabbing the design as a beacon to be handed over to generations to come.

Meanwhile in the developing nations, they will fight about the politics and economics of such cars, as the ozone layer continues to yawn at them in boredom. People will compete to bring out cheaper versions of the clean car, more economics and politics. Jobs will be outsourced, commotion resulting from that, more economics and politics.

Well I do hope some fearless mind comes out with a breakthrough sooner than later.

The Arctic Ice has melted faster this year, scientists say that snow-less summers are not too far away, and there are others who campaign about coming and seeing the ocean before they evaporate in a billion years.

Wish I am on the space probe from planet 'alphabetagamma' that comes to collect soil from the Earth to find out if life existed on the planet once. Far fetched but not impossible right?It might bring me a sense of deja vu if the robotic arms dig anywhere close to the places where I shop now. 

I'm super thrilled, I'm going to put on my sunscreen with SPF 45 and look for a new sunscreen with all possible chemical combinations that protects me from even harsher UV rays, and look up the newest science fiction.

{Talk about hypocrisy: chemical combinations, the production of which could degrade the environment and books which will require chopping off trees.}