As green technology has advanced throughout the decades, there have been many groundbreaking achievements and examples that mankind is moving towards a future that is no longer dominated by conventional fuel sources. One such example was on display Sunday, when Johnsonville retail outlet at the crossroads of Bringham and Astor powered a children’s novelty mall ride for over an hour using nothing but the sun for energy. Onlookers stood and marveled as the ride buzzed and blinked and went up and down — as though it were plugged into a normal power outlet — yet amazingly, it was powered by a large solar panel grid on top of the building until it got cloudy out and the ride had to be shut down for the day.
Greenpeace called the event “momentous”; former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach De La Rocha dubbed it “the deathblow to the capitalist regeme” and Al Gore fired hundreds of mexican firecrackers off the bow of his yacht in celebration. “Sure it’s just an hour right now,” Gore was quoted as saying, “but imagine in the future. Two hours, maybe even three hours is not out of the question!”
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