Any time the power goes out, the refrigerator door starts acting much like that half-opened closet door did when we were kids. We know there is a monster in there; we just don't want to look.
The monster is all those leftovers slowly decomposing because the ice keeping them cool begins to melt. Sure, we'll have to throw it all out and start from scratch, but there is some hope that the little box of baking soda in the back will keep a foul stench from turning into a hazardous waste site.
Melting ice, there is the obvious parallel to the global warming fiasco. Melting ice is really going to make our lives stink in a few years. But the baking soda might become part of the metaphor as well - and save our tails in the end.
An entrepreneur referring to an old Chemistry 101 text book is starting the business of turning CO2 emissions into baking soda for industrial use. Cheap, easy, and it takes what is going to make our lives stink and turn it into something that will stop our refrigerator from stinking too badly when the power goes out again.
Read about it here.
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