July 1, 2007

THE WAR OVER POWER

Today the huge multinational company ASHRUM has announced it’s plans to open the flood gates of electricity stemming from the new Thermonuclear power plant they designed and built earlier in the 21st century. The plant promises to cut the cost of power by half due to the lack of expensive fuel sources needed to run it. The plant is “clean” says the Tokyo congress, by this they mean it has no outputs that could be dangerous to the environment.

“We strived to build the cleanest most effective power generating system possible,” says company founder Zetsumei Jouten, “and we have succeeded.” The plant’s full is hydrogen, a element found readily in earth’s atmosphere, by smashing two hydrogen atoms into each other at speeds nearing that of light they combine to form helium, a harmless gas that floats freely out of the atmosphere and into space due it amazingly light weight. The combination of these two elements releases more energy then a billion of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima in the mid 20th century. The plant uses an electromagnetic field to capture this energy and put it into our homes.

There is a strong opposition to opening the plants stemming from TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, who says that since the plant is capable of easily generating all of the power for the city and also most of Japan as well as parts of eastern China it will put millions out of work. “This plant will cause the shut down of at least sixteen others,” Argues Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of TEPCO, “Mr. Jouten Already owns half of Tokyo’s economy, if he takes this he will just be one step closer to controlling nearly every aspect of production, delivery, and sale of anything entering and leaving this city.

This comes after the company had purchased all but one harbor, the Tokyo airport, as well as taking over companies like Sony and Samsung. It seems that ASHRUM is one step closer to wholly owning Japan’s economy, though this may seem like a bad thing Mr. Jouten has opened millions of jobs and dropped the prices of oil, phone charges, television, and nearly every other thing he has touch. It seems that will be the fate of the power industry as well. I don’t know about you people but I am looking forward to lower electric bill, one less thing I need to worry about.

-Reporter Trisha Takanawa