Energy crisis

South Africa and the rest of the world are facing an energy crisis. i remember reading about the potential crisis while i was still in school and I was doing physics at the time and i thought this is bull there is no way the planet could face an energy crisis while I am still alive, it would be too soon. How naive I was.

I am an lemonade kinda guy (I like to believe) so I thought about the problem we are facing in south africa and we can blame whoever we want (I blame an inexperienced goverment, how can you take fighters and make them... thats another blog post) but the fact remains we need an alternate source of energy soon.

What is my plan?

The movies and sci-fi are a great place to look for a solution. Look at how people are now spending time online instead of with real people. i remember reading a book on a mobile midlet called wattpad that was supposedly by Isaac Asimov the Irobot. The book was about a child who had a robot whom she regarded as her best friend. Spent all the time she could with it to her mother's dismay.
The internet has become that now. Isaac, assuming the story is really by him, lived a long time ago and sort of prdicted what is happening with the internet now. So on that basis I say we should look at sci-fi to find a possible solution to the energy crisis (i should start a church that believes sci-fi can solve the world's problems :-)).

I have thought of a great sci-fi movie: The Matrix (the first one because after that i just don't like it).

This is what we do: We take all the criminals that are in death row and life imprisonment and all the old and disgusting old people and we use them as a source of energy. We develop the matrix and we plug them all in there and use their bodies as 'batteries'. Inhumane? NO!! the criminals are already useless to society and we're putting them to good use and we all know that old people all want to be young. So we plug them into the matrix and make them feel young (since you're as young as you feel, we make their wishes come true).