So humans can invent a fleet of autonomous solar-powered, sea-swarm robots made “with ultra-light nanowire mesh that can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil” and use these to clean up an oil spill in 30 days but we can’t figure out a way to actually use solar power to meet our energy …
Tag Archive: oil spill
Jun 09
The Stain
“A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds’ sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up.” From here “Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then …
May 27
Oil Spill in Land of Make Believe
As a child, I had a friend who outgrew imagination based games. Having lost his keys to The Land of Make Believe, he no longer wanted to pretend anything, much less anything ridiculous. His reality bored me as much as my dreams bored him. One day, sitting in his tree-house, after having another idea shot …






