Sunday, March 15, 2009

Ozymandias is Alive

Ozymandias is real but his name isn't Adrian Veidt it's Shai Agassi and he's gonna save the world.  In a time when a graphic novel has sparked all kinds of conversations about age old problems a real life counter part to Watchmen's superhero Ozymandias has appeared with a bold new plan to save mankind.

Shai Agassi started a company called Better Place, plans to replace all our gas powered vehicles with electric cars and to build a world wide infrastructure to support these vehicles.  Just like in the graphic novel Watchmen Agassi has invented power stations to be placed all over our city's and towns to charge these vehicles.  In the graphic novel Veidt invents a charging station that looks much like a fire hydrant you plug your car into when it's parked.  Will this change how the world runs?  Will it stop wars over oil?  How prolific is Watchmen and it's writer Alan Moore?

As the character Rorschach would say, "This needs further investigating."

for info on Better Place goto: Better Place

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