As I write, the first volts of light generated electricity are streaming into the Brussels grid. And although a perverse EU supported mechanism will bind my ecological efforts to big giant polluters (who will be able to buy my non-pollution, pay me for my effort and go on doing their own pollution) – still I am very happy (and it is up to me not to sell to them, of course).
Yesterday I learnt from a theatre play that solar energy was already widely used in the 1910s. Solar panels covered a portion of the Sahara desert and produced electricity. These were American firms. They all went bankrupt because of the war, since military technology needed faster energy produced by fossil-fuel.
So there you have it, the reason why we have still a game of oil, war, pesticides, chemical additives, medicines, etc.
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sabina // May 7, 2009 at 7:33 am |
which play? which unknown histories? I want to know everything!