| In addressing a plenary session at
Strathclyde University's summer school, Cambridge don Doctor M. Archer argued for the more
focussed use of solar energy. There was, the scientist explained,
technology available to focus the power of the sun via satellite controlled mirror arrays
into a single beam of concentrated light. Such a power source, Dr Archer contended, could
solve many of the world's energy problems with vast capacitators built to contain the
energy and transform it into electricity.
Dr Archer accepted the concerns that such power had potentially destructive
force. In particular, she conceded the effect of concentrated solar energy on mammalian
tissue was "dreadfully underresearched." |
Dr Archer called for the testing of
the light beams on volunteers within the prison population. Certain prisoners, currently
serving out their sentence, could volunteer to be strapped down on a treatment bed and be
forced to watch as the destructive power of the beam edged up from the bottom end of the
bed, travelling inexorably towards the subject's groin area. Dr Archer
conceded that there might be a problem in securing a sufficiency of volunteers, "in
that case" she persuasively argued, "the prisoner's wife could reasonably
volunteer her cheating, lying bastard of a husband for the gooly crisping procedure."
Concluding, Dr Archer took her serenity pills and wafted fragrantly out a side
door. |
