the viscous film of science fiction reality

In no other time in history has there been such a rush to proceed with
high-flying visions of nano-scale architecture manufacture, but say just
once that you're going to put a stop to buckeyballs (fullerenes) and
build a 120 metre tall wind turbine out in the middle of the ocean and
people faint with fear that something they can see and that they know to
be benign (especially in comparison to current energy production
realities) will always be on the skyline where they never look except
for weekends and holidays and they have a flippin' bird!

Better to never visit the installation of the local nuclear power plant
or to live close by it for that matter. And to IGNORE that it even
exists. Better to make chemicals or electrical power in sprawling plants
where acreage is swallowed up and contaminated forever by toxic residue
than to admit there is another and a better way...

But you know? It never hurts to question, does it?

-- tim