Capacitance.

Continuing to link to other peoples blog posts as fuel, I just need ot write this down quickly before I hit the north for the weekend and forget about it…

Tom A mentions the under-construction Dubai mega-complex. It makes me think; they’re storing their oil wealth. This grand construction project is a capacitor to store their capital and manpower in the lean times ahead. I wonder if this is the same as the giant monuments of older collapsing societies. Obvious example, the Easter Island statues, they got bigger and bigger as the society drove itself towards the end. These were spiritual capacitors trying desperately to convert the islands dwindling resources into holy goodwill. Moral of the story? I dunno.

Anyway, have a good weekend.