Virginia Arthur's Blog - Posts Tagged "where-is-the-solar-car"
Latest Report from Lying-Awake-At-Night-Thinking-Too-Much Purgatory: Solving Climate Change-UPDATE!!
YES! Sanity (partially) restored.
https://earth911.com/eco-watch/energy...
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Am I insane? Missing something? What is this I am clenching in bed? Oh, the sheet, and my teeth...
Isn't it obvious? Or is it only obvious to me?
A few weeks ago I read an article about a school in Southern California that had the kids design and build solar cars to race in their annual derby and it was pretty fantastic. Why are the only people building solar cars 12 year olds? Yes, I know there are college labs...but isn't this the solution, a major solution, to climate change because we are NEVER EVER EVER going to give up our cars. EVER.
When I am lying awake at night gnashing my teeth, clenching my sheet, knocking over the lamp because I can't get these goddamn thoughts out of my head, it goes like this:
1. Oh my God. What was that crap on NPR about carbon trading to stop climate change? Are you freaking kidding me? AGAIN?
2. If I go to the climate change talks, I will be contributing to climate change. Are they video streaming it? Why the f...not? I mean, JESUS!
3. I could drive. I am not going to drive.
4. The solution is so obvious--we need a viable solar car.
5. What if instead of that stupid, stupid, stupid, self-driving car Google "invented" and now is trying to force on us, they invented a viable solar car. Where would we be now...?
6. And why in the HELL isn't Musk doing it? A rocket to Mars? Is he throwing in the towel? And Bezos? You want to save the world, like for real? You could check off the ego box, and in this case, deserve it.
7. Who killed the electric car? Is it now who killed the solar car?
8. Jesus, it's 3:30. GO TO SLEEP.
9. But is there hope? What about those kids...That teacher should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, oh wait a minute...
10. President. Trump. God no. How did this happen? I'm having a nightmare. Obviously I am sleeping. No, I'm not.
11. Where is the solar car? Why isn't anybody doing this? This is the answer. It's so obvious. We can do it. I am never going to get to sleep so let's turn on the t.v. for a few minutes.
Ten car commercials later -"you want big, bad, this truck can go ANYwhere" (insert images of big "bad" truck plowing through wetlands, creating eroded muddy hillsides, smashing alpine flowers to get to the top of some poor unfortunate mountain)-- between updates about impeachment. I am now screaming out my window, banging head against wall. I don't think I'm the insane one in this scenario but I will be soon.
https://earth911.com/eco-watch/energy...
_____________________________________________________
Am I insane? Missing something? What is this I am clenching in bed? Oh, the sheet, and my teeth...
Isn't it obvious? Or is it only obvious to me?
A few weeks ago I read an article about a school in Southern California that had the kids design and build solar cars to race in their annual derby and it was pretty fantastic. Why are the only people building solar cars 12 year olds? Yes, I know there are college labs...but isn't this the solution, a major solution, to climate change because we are NEVER EVER EVER going to give up our cars. EVER.
When I am lying awake at night gnashing my teeth, clenching my sheet, knocking over the lamp because I can't get these goddamn thoughts out of my head, it goes like this:
1. Oh my God. What was that crap on NPR about carbon trading to stop climate change? Are you freaking kidding me? AGAIN?
2. If I go to the climate change talks, I will be contributing to climate change. Are they video streaming it? Why the f...not? I mean, JESUS!
3. I could drive. I am not going to drive.
4. The solution is so obvious--we need a viable solar car.
5. What if instead of that stupid, stupid, stupid, self-driving car Google "invented" and now is trying to force on us, they invented a viable solar car. Where would we be now...?
6. And why in the HELL isn't Musk doing it? A rocket to Mars? Is he throwing in the towel? And Bezos? You want to save the world, like for real? You could check off the ego box, and in this case, deserve it.
7. Who killed the electric car? Is it now who killed the solar car?
8. Jesus, it's 3:30. GO TO SLEEP.
9. But is there hope? What about those kids...That teacher should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, oh wait a minute...
10. President. Trump. God no. How did this happen? I'm having a nightmare. Obviously I am sleeping. No, I'm not.
11. Where is the solar car? Why isn't anybody doing this? This is the answer. It's so obvious. We can do it. I am never going to get to sleep so let's turn on the t.v. for a few minutes.
Ten car commercials later -"you want big, bad, this truck can go ANYwhere" (insert images of big "bad" truck plowing through wetlands, creating eroded muddy hillsides, smashing alpine flowers to get to the top of some poor unfortunate mountain)-- between updates about impeachment. I am now screaming out my window, banging head against wall. I don't think I'm the insane one in this scenario but I will be soon.
