Re: convert light into energy

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Chuck Britton wrote:

> At 11:49 AM -0700 2/2/00, Shawn Knudsen wrote:
>
> > Help me here.  In the same context, power is not a thing neither?
>
> No, we just pay $$$$ for energy. It isn't 'real'.

But then $$$$ isn't real either.  "The Onion" recently had a news story
(reprinted below) that makes this point pretty convincingly.

   AOL Acquires Time-Warner In Largest-Ever Expenditure Of Pretend
   Internet Money
   DULLES, VA--In the largest merger of imaginary assets in corporate
   history, Internet giant America Online last week acquired media
   megacorp Time-Warner for an unprecedented $161 billion in pretend
   money. "This merger will revolutionize the way invisible amounts of
   non-existent cash are transferred," said Steve Case of AOL, a company
   whose actual revenues are a tiny fraction of its make-believe
   valuation. In an effort to keep pace with AOL, website
   blairwitchproject.com is expected to acquire General Motors sometime
   later this week.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm