alternative horizon 2

I was driving a long stretch of highway thinking why aren't we using some sort of electric system on these highways to collect the sun's energy to power our transportation and then divert the excess to the grid? http://www.solarroadways.com/

I thought Robs video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8WgXHDwS_4) that Jennifer sent me was interesting, and thought Kelseys subsequent photo variation on that theme was neat, so when I passed a road sign a thought crossed my mind to try something using cell phone video, so I put on the brakes and turned around. The imagery was conjured up on the fly, but as it turned out, I can give you the subsequent mechanics of my story board.

I did this whole project impromptu and had a good time improvising, and it was a good break from work even though sometimes technologically frustrating, like finding an mpeg4 editor for cell phone format, and it even took me a dozen attempts just to get it uploaded to YouTube successfully, but heres a few ways you could really read a lot into the imagery if you wanted:

It opens with a 1953 Chevy pick up, an old technology, then pans to a big broad horizon lined with windmills, a new alternative technology. The video is so poor quality you can barely see those windmills but they are there. Then you see pumpjacks, the one in back (being in back could represent the past) is still pumping a well, the one in front (being in front could represent the present and future) is sitting idle in the pasture, then a quick glimpse of the late model pick up, fifty years newer than the 1953 but still using the 100 year old technology, then quickly back to the idle pumpjack as it vaporizes, imaging the vanishing ability to feed the old technology!

Then a quick shot of human feet, the most basic of pre-non-combustion engine transportation modes, then actual walking to the one lane road sign warning which in the context of above suggests to be alert, there's no turning back, that its important to get it right the first time, an urgent situation, both hands on the wheel, etc.

So the dramatic question: think we can do it? asked rhetorically to a symbol of an old technology, possibly suggestive that in a transition period we still have some lingering reliance on the old ways even while in the process of forging toward the new. Then the affirmative answer. The willingness and/or acknowledgment of the necessity to try progressing to survive.

We see more warnings to get prepared and after awhile finally arrive at the one lane road via the old technology but then in a dream like state we see windmills as we continue traveling amidst a new alternative technology on the horizon, and once past the one lane road we return from the dream and are thinking we made it, but only as the old technology we were using completely disappears and the apparent dream becomes our reality filled with alternative energy.

http://www.solarroadways.com/

article below with both short sighted and far sighted comments about the above link

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2008/03/pv-you-can-drive...

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