Energy crisis...
High fuel costs...
Greenhouse gas emissions...
Global Warming...
What else is new?
Wouldn't it be great if we could somehow build a digestive system that's able to take in biological items and convert them into energy without emitting too much of those?
I've been pondering over the same thing. Humans create energy through digestion. What if we were able to come up with a "biological" car? Something like a horse, except that it's manufactured.
Alright, before I get people up in arms saying that I'm trying to play GOD, no I don't intend to clone animals. Merely "engineer" them.
What if we could create a part of an organism that's not from any other. For example, we create a digestive system which will break down the "food" and store the energy in batteries of some sort (biological) naturally.
The technology is definitely not there right now but wouldn't it be cool if we could "feed" our cars of the future real food (i.e. edible by humans) and it then converts the food to energy and the only by-product is manure?
I guess the easier way out would be just to go back to basics, horse-drawn carriages and the likes. Although some might still think that's it'll be inhumane or cruel to subject horses (or animals) to labour.
Hence to be morally free, we'll have to create non-sentient beings to do stuff. I guess it's still science fiction but wouldn't it be cool if one day, we could have a headless horse carting us around?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment