The answer: Aby Eyeshine. Oh, there are plenty of electric cars around, not to mention hybrids, but it was Ms. Eyeshine who found a way of continually recharging the battery with static created by rubbing the fur of the passengers. (It can only be the vehicle’s passengers, of course, since the gentle stroking would cause drivers to fall asleep at the wheel.)
She’s been working on this ever since she finagled R.L. into funding her research. (She also got an expansion of her auto shop out of the deal.) She was very excited, until she actually applied for the patent.
That’s when she found out that a patent for the same process had been granted just the day before to Manxwell Hammer, a manx cat to whom she’d been engaged a decade ago in Silicon Valley. She was furious, and she also felt violated. Obviously he’d had access to her various computers for all these years.
I got all this from Kell, asking me to come home right away to investigate. I have my theories of how he did it, but I won’t know until I get inside her machine.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about her invention. While any reduction in fossil fuel usage is a positive development, there wouldn’t be much electricity created by rubbing my quills!
Today's question: How many of you are done with school for the summer? I am!
