Thursday, August 17, 2006
SUNSHINE POWERFUL
Oh, how Matt Welch laughed at my revolutionary plan to harness the power of the sun. The oil-addicted Californian—who once incinerated his own car to protest against cleanliness—must now reconsider his hateful anti-Gaia stance following Washington Post columnist Leslie M. Aun’s enlightenment:
With global warming in the headlines, local temperatures soaring and energy prices headed into the stratosphere, I’ve had an epiphany of sorts. Around our house we’re calling it the Great Clothesline Experiment—an experiment a decade in the making ...
Visiting friends in Australia last January, I found myself in a nation where hanging the laundry out to dry is just what you do.
After my initial shock at being handed a basket and a stack of clothespins—truth be told I had never actually hung up an entire load of laundry before—I felt a sense of satisfaction at having enabled the forces of nature, rather than Maytag, to dry my things.
“Sunshine is the single most powerful natural resource we have,” one Australian friend said. “Why should we dig up fossil fuels to dry our laundry when we have a renewable source that costs nothing?” Indeed.
Indeed, Matt. Indeed.
(Via Ray)