Energy Saving – Light Bulbs

I was looking through a book about a very old Scottish castle on the edge of Loch Ness.

Skimming through the pages, I was looking at the hand drawn illustrations and captions depicting how they thought the inhabitants of this old castle used to dress like and what they did centuries ago.

The castle drawing was cut away at the side showing how burning fire wood heated the various rooms and levels within which people are doing their thing.

That’s when it occurred to me! Back in those days, hundreds of years ago, resources seemed limitless only limited by how fast people could harvest them.

When I was a kid growing up in the 1980′s, I remember seeing fire burn and even playing with it, much to the terror of my family. It seemed too good to be true… how can fire be so warm, so powerful and so beautiful… What is the catch? (apart from burning skin and back breaking work chopping wood)

I was told there is no catch, and so was pretty much everyone in the world.

- Now I don’t know if you have ever got anything for ‘free’ in your life as most would agree that nothing is truly ‘free’. You’ve got to do something to get something, right?

Well it now seems that burning fire wood in that castle has really caught on in a big way, and now that everyone is doing it, burning coal, oil and gas, it no longer has no consequences.

That free, powerful and amazing, flaming fire has a cost.

What I’m trying to say is , you can’t get something for nothing. This includes generating energy. There are consequences and something of a negative effect in producing carbon dioxide in such large amounts that Earth’s eco-systems can no longer keep up with.

Fire is not free any more and really, it never was, sorry. Great idea though! just a bit of an out-dated one.