Rejoice, Dear Reader! You no longer need worry about the lack of adequate power storage interfering with the transition to renewable, completely unreliable energy. A team of brilliant scientists from the land of spaghetti and other health foods have created the first edible rechargeable battery. Yes, really. I, the Happy Pessimist, would never lie to you. Just look up the scientific paper “An Edible Chargeable Battery” in the March edition of the refereed journal “Advanced Materials” https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202211400. (N.B. When I began to write the current missive, spell check corrected “refereed” to “refried.” Perhaps I should have accepted the emendation.)
No longer do we need to wait for Elon Musk to fill the Arizona desert with gigantic installations of conventional batteries filled with toxic chemicals. We can simply shove a cable into our personal orifice of choice, and connect the other end to our EV. Think of it! No more searching for non-existent recharging stations!
It gets better! The article also informs us that “Edible electronic devices will have major implications for gastrointestinal tract monitoring, therapeutics, as well as rapid food quality monitoring.” I particularly like the “food quality monitoring.” Instead of waiting for your mother, wife, other significant other, physician, or other obnoxious party to chide you for going off your diet, the monitoring device will automatically induce you to barf. No more pizza for you, Tubby!
Enjoy the red pill.