We are already solar powered.

I was once watching an interview with Michael Jackson. The interviewer asks him about his creative work in music. Michael Jackson says something which stuck with me and continues to serve me. He said that the mistake an artist makes is to get in the way of natural creativity... let it all flow out freely. Likewise, Albert Einstein once said, 'imagination is more important than knowledge.' They may appear as totally different statements said in totally different contexts by totally different people in completely different fields. However, to me both men are actually saying the same thing. We may overcomplicate the natural course of events with our human input.

Sometimes, the solution or the right way of doing things is not to be searched for because it might be right in front of us. All we need to do is let it happen. Free thoughts and the natural world can find solutions to problems we find unsolvable, provided we are really paying attention.

I receive a lot of emails from various people asking me to teach them how to write. If I can reply, I always tell them nothing different than what Jackson and Einstein said. I tell them to jot down their original thoughts, whatever they may be, and once everything has flown out then get down to organising it on paper. I wish there was another way. When we get into the way of those natural thoughts and try to manufacture them so that they can fit into whatever frame of acceptable understanding is out there, we only end up creating a boring narration.

Humanity made the same mistake when mankind realised that it would need a lot of energy to support the new way of life after the Industrial Revolution. Perhaps that is humanity's original sin of the previous millennium, the consequences of which would live on with us and affect us. In order to power the machines mankind made, energy started to be generated using fossil fuel.

There was a time we had water machines. They were powered by the fast moving water...

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