Johnston Canyon
Watercolour and
Photoshop™
©2016 Charlene Brown
There are more and
more articles online and in print media about the environmental and economic aspects
of climate change. Such articles, predicting future harmful effects and
advancing strategies for mitigating and preventing them, are good sources of ‘found’
clean energy haiku.
And new or once known
but now forgotten phrases – particularly scientific or technological terms you
have to look up in Wikipedia – make the best ‘strategic’ found clean energy
haiku.
For example, the first
two lines in the poem on the Johnston Canyon picture:
eponymous laws
primordial gravity
divide and conquer
are a little less
enigmatic if you Google:
eponymous laws: Many
scientific phenomena are defined by eponymous laws or principles or rules,
named after the person who first discovered or defined them – Avogadro, Newton,
Mendel, Planck – and most of us can’t remember most of them (with the notable
exception of Murphy, whose law everyone remembers).
primordial gravity: The existence of primordial gravitational
waves (ripples in space-time that originated in the very early universe or Big
Bang) could reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics to reveal a ‘theory
of everything.’
They still don’t make
a lot of sense, but they are less enigmatic.
