In our dystopian future we might all be buying power by the watt-hour from a cart in the market.
You wouldn't know it from reading the news, but there was a hurricane in Puerto Rico a couple of months ago and a lot of American citizens there still don't have electricity. Industrial designer and furniture builder Alexandre Díez Gradín was one of them. He tells TreeHugger:
In the Caribbean we know a thing or two about Hurricanes ...or that's what we thought. Hurricane María was different. We thought we were gonna be out of power only for a couple of weeks and after a month we were going to be able to shake things up and go back to normal. Not at all, María was not only a stronger hurricane but also a logistical nightmare that left in evidence new necessities and problems in times of devastation. We realized that now telecommunications are one of the main things you wanna be able to use, now we have smartphones and social media.
Read the Treehugger story by Lloyd Alter - “The CarretOn will deliver electricity to Puerto Ricans without power.”
No comments:
Post a Comment