That pearl/swine interface again
So anyway. It turns out that this bunch of boffins are working on bacteria-powered fuel cells. Could have important ramifications for cheap energy production, you might think. Particularly in these days of thirst.
But hold your horses. The project is funded by the US Department of Defence because “[t]he Air Force has long been interested in micro-scale air vehicles – some as small as insects – but it has been stymied by the lack of a suitable, compact power source”.
Now excuse me, but isn’t this a little like finding a previously undiscovered Van Gogh in the attic and, instead of lending it to a museum where the most people can appreciate it, hanging it in the outside bog?
Micro-scale air vehicles. As small as insects.
Donald Rumsfeld is 73.
Posted on March 15th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
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Half (? more ?) the technological advances made by man have come from his attempts to find more efficient ways to kill his fellow man.
As Churchill said about the Iron Age “we at last recognise a fellow human. There can be no doubt that for smashing skulls, whether long-headed or round, iron is best”.
Unfortunate but there it is.
What is it about that comment that makes me think of Sunday Post editorials? “Aye, just like they say, many a mickle maks a muckle!”