Spontaneous Self-Combustion - energy source of the future?
Reports of cases of human spontaneous combustion (HSSC) are as old as mankind itself. With our natural fuel resources now rapidly dwindling, it comes to no surprise that scientists now more than ever research this phenomenon as a potential solution for the world wide energy crisis.
However, the idea of using HSSC as an energy source is not entirely new. Numerous experiments in that regard have been made with limited success - starting with the Roman Emperor Nero, who was surprised by its potential to almost obliterate the entire city of Rome (as he later mentioned in his memoirs).
Over the following centuries no effort was spared to increase the energy output from HSSC. Due to failed experiments many parts of the world - and especially Europe - have been scarred by the side effects of its unleashed fury. The most promising results have been achieved in last centuries’ 30’s and 40’s, when the German Nation intensified the research and managed to supply mid-sized towns with clean and environment-friendly HSSC-energy.
Yet their efforts have been put to naught by other nations who envied the success, namely the United States, who, based on looted scientific reports, have only a few years later conducted a rather successful HSSC-experiment in cooperation with the universities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
As our unreliable sources in the Middle East suggest, plans of a world wide field experiment do exist, which involves a large number of HSSC-volunteers. This finally might be the long awaited breakthrough (aka ‘Grand Finale’), effectively saving our planet’s resources by eliminating it’s biggest thread - the human factor.
The only downside of this would be the end of HSSC, too…
Val Hálla @ April 24, 2008