Solar Is The Future

Frankly, I’m not too impressed by this…’Home of the Future’ tour. Things got off to a bad start when I realised that I’d be taking the tour with that young woman who tricked the organisers of the competition into thinking she was twenty years younger…and they just let her have her prize anyway. Whatever she designed must’ve been pretty darn good.

So I’m there with my daughter, Abigail. She’s a really bright kid, loves to draw and design things, hence why she won the competition for our state. But then we start the tour, and honestly…it didn’t seem that impressive. The tour guide was saying impressive stuff, and I guess we were supposed to understand it. The whole house was decked out with energy saving industrial LED lighting. That was…fun. I know what all those words mean, and when I explained to Abigail what ‘commercial’ meant, then she got it as well. Still, we’re not industry experts, so we had no point of reference. I guess the fact that they had commercial LED lighting was something futuristic, but…why? The other parents didn’t know either. The only person who DID know was that young women, who spent most of the tour practically salivating. Once the guy started explaining how the place was powered entirely by industrial-grade solar energy, I thought she was going to pass out for a moment. Well, at least one of us was enjoying themselves…and unfortunately, it was the lying women and not the actual kids. Ah, maybe I’m just underestimating what kids learn in school these days. Maybe Abigail just had a class where they explained the many benefits of industrial solar systems for Melbourne businesses, and it’s us grown-ups that are the silly ones. Maybe I’ll talk to her later, see if she understood more than I did.