Current events 1st Quarter No 1

Mad Like Tesla
Bob McDonald
CBC.ca
Saturday, 24th of September 2011

        MAD LIKE TESLA

In one episode of “Quirks and Quarks”, a radio show on CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation), the host Bob McDonald interviewed Tyler Hamilton, author of the new book - Mad Like Tesla. In the book, the author writes about people in this world who are much like Tesla was back then, with brilliant ideas, but ideas that some might think are crazy. These scientists are working on environmentally friendly ways to produce energy. An example is a group of people in British Columbia, Canada who have an amazing idea from the ‘70s. The idea was created, but, because the materials they needed didn’t exist at the time, it was put away and forgotten. Now these people have uncovered it, and today we actually do have the materials, and they’re trying to build it. The machine being invented is a fusion reactor, used to create environmentally friendly energy. It is much cheaper to build than all the other ideas that are being created today (the price for this idea is estimated to be 30 million dollars, while others cost billions). This idea is being put in to motion as you read this, as well as many others.

       I think that this idea and other ideas that I heard about are very smart, and not crazy. I think that because they sound like they would work, and also because they may be the only things that could keep the human race from sinking into oblivion because of the environmental issues.