Next Christmas

Everyone start saving now. I know what I want for Christmas next year. Yes, I realize that it's only a few days after Christmas, but it's going to take a while for you to save and compile your money for my gift.

How many times have you ever wished that you didn't have to pay high prices for electricity? Have you ever wished that you could turn the tables and be your own power company? Have you ever had a crazy desire to house your own nuclear weaponry just in case of attack? That's all I want for Christmas, and thanks to Toshiba it can be a reality.

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html

Toshiba has built a personal nuclear reactor. Designed to power apartment buildings and city blocks, the unit is scheduled to be available in Japan next year and the US in 2009. So, I guess maybe I'll have to wait two years to get one, but how freaking awesome will it be to have the ability to power a small city block for the next 40 years?

Now, Toshiba assures us that the unit will be self-contained and safe, and while they didn't say anything directly about the potential for weaponizing it, I'm sure that they would claim it to be impossible. I don't know about you, but that just doesn't give me much confidence. Every time a technology company says that something is secure or safe, a 15 year old in Japan comes up with a way to beat the system. Don't think that this unit won't be made into a bomb or missile by June.

Given that we can safely (ironic, eh?) assume that the unit is going to find a post production market in international weapons, I definitely want to have one in my closet. I figure it's not much different than having a gun in your home. If there's gonna be some there, you better make sure one is yours. Well, if half the world is going to have nuclear arms, I better be part of the half that's armed. And nothing gives you more leverage when you want to borrow your neighbor's ladder than the idea that you could turn their home into a smoldering crater.