Energy for the World in a Blade of Grass?

"You Can't Take It with You" Movie Hits Dead Center on Energy Solution

The other day I was watching Frank Capra's 1938 movie version of Kaufman and Hart's smash Broadway hit "You Can't Take It with You".

The movie starred Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, James Stewart and  Jean Arthur.  In one scene, Alice and Jeff are on a date and end up in Central Park discussing life. Jeff allows that banking was not his choice.

Rather in college, he was fascinated with how the green gets into leaves and blades of grass.  Jeff plucks a blade and gently turning it in his fingers, he wonders aloud what might have happened if he and his roomie had figured out how the little engines deep in the blade of grass took the sun and made green or chlorophyll.

And then Jeff continued--with something like,

"if we had figured out that we could have figured out how to make energy from the sun and power the world".

I almost fell off the couch in astonishment. This is a movie made 1938 mind you!! 

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Comments

[Nancy Mehegan]

Rita-- maybe if mankind used Gov. Sarah Palin's "abstinence" idea, the population rate would slow down. Although it didn't work well for her pregnant daughter. :)

[Rita@Goldivas]

Regardless of whatever green technology we are able to employ, we still need to address the issue of overpopulation. We can't grow forever, unless we start colonizing other planets.