Water to a Fish: a Future of Energy Everywhere
Feb 9, 2019 · 7 min read
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
David Foster Wallace was not talking about electricity but it’s easy to think of it that way too: ubiquitous but invisible. Always on (or nearly so). We usually think about it when it isn’t there — an ice storm in the Northeast or an earthquake in…
