Man-made tornadoes could power the future
Coiled up in a tornado is as much energy as an entire power plant. So a Canadian engineer has a plan to spin up his own twister and extract energy from its tethered tail.
Maybe it’s just me, but this has all the makings of a bad disaster movie with Science Gone Horribly Wrong. Probably starring John Schneider. Have you ever noticed how many disaster movies the man is in?
Not a thing on tonight I care to watch, so it’ll be recorded stuff again. Probably more Old Hollywood stuff.
Last night, I watched one of the documentaries on Old Hollywood I had recorded. It covered the murder of film director William Desmond Taylor who was shot and killed in his home in 1922. It’s still an open case even though it happened 86 years ago. The most likely suspect was Charlotte Shelby, mother of actress Mary Miles Minter. Shelby was known for threatening people with her gun, hat pins, and letter openers. And her gun was the right caliber. She thought Taylor was making the moves on her “innocent” daughter despite being almost three times Mary’s age. That would have been highly unlikely as it turns out Taylor was gay (though that wasn’t acknowledged publicly for years). There may be more up-to-date info now, though. i’m not sure how old the show I watched is. Anyway, the scandal of Taylor’s murder brought out details of various people’s lives and ruined their careers, primarily Mary Miles Minter and Mabel Normand who Taylor had helped to beat her drug addiction. Of course, scandals like these would be small potatoes today, but back then? Studio executives did everything in their considerable power to hush things up. Up to and including bribing the district attorney and the cops.
Tonight we have five hours of Ghost Hunters. At first, I thought I’d seen all of them, but there may be a couple I haven’t seen. They don’t sound familiar, anyway. And there’s a new show on the Travel Channel called Travel Fact or Fiction which looks like it could be interesting.
Anyway, getting back to the show I watched last night, it gave me some ideas of things I can work into the manuscript of my fictional murder mystery. And it also helped me figure out where my heroine’s parents live. *g*
Reading: I’d intended to read Deja Demon last night, but my hands were bugging me so much I couldn’t cope with holding a trade paperback. So I finished up Styx and Stones by Carola Dunn instead.
Have you ever noticed how many disaster movies the man is in?
and killed in his home in 1922. It’s still an open case even though it happened 86 years ago. The most likely suspect was Charlotte Shelby, mother of actress 
