Saturday, November 02, 2019

Not solar, not wind power, human power

I usually watch strange (to other people) programs on TV. I've been watching programs on Saturday morning that have changed my mind about the future and none of it is about solar power or wind power, but human power. In fact, the heat from our bodies can power batteries and charge our phones. It is all about human ingenuity and how humans have always changed the world -- by their own innovation and our own vision.

A girl in Canada, I believe she was adopted, created a flashlight that uses the heat of your hand to power the flashlight and her innovation may soon be patented and available to you. Guess what? That kind of human innovation use can work with a human body's heat to power things -- although I don't think that would work to power an airplane or an automobile, but that time is also coming. Sooner than we believe since we are focused on solar power and wind power instead of human power.

How about using geothermal energy for heating our homes? Why not use geothermal energy to power airplanes and automobiles? All we need is another innovative person to figure it out and patent it to make it possible to be sold to the public. It's all about us. The only thing we need is human innovation and human power.

I was watching a program about human innovation. In this case, it is the Stradivarius violin made by Antoniius Stradivari Those violins were made by a master craftsman over 300 years ago, but the tone the violins make is all about Stradivari's artistry. It is all about human innovation.

I would say the same thing about the girl who crossed the Atlantic by boat: Greta Thunberg. Yes, it is about one person's determination and it is not about solar power or wind power. No matter how badly she tanked when she went off script, she is determined to power our world by solar and wind power, but she is another cog in the wheel and not the innovator like the girl in Canada or Stradivari.

Ann Makosinski from Victoria, British Columbia (Canada) is only 15years old and she played with wires and computer parts and created her own toys as a 2-year-old. She won a science fair prize for her flashlight that is powered by the heat of a person's hand. No batteries at all. No solar power. No wind power. The heat of your hand is the power that makes the flashlight work. All human innovation.

I am sure there are violins that play as well as the Stradivarius violins, but the violins have not been found yet that produce that mellifluous sound. We all think newer and more mechanical is better, but all we really need is another Stradivari to create another mellifluous sounding violin.

It is all about human innovation. While we are all caught up in solar power and wind power we
should step aside and let another innovative human to show us the way.

That is all. Disperse.



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