I walked into the house the other day, and there was an odd-looking thing sitting in my kitchen.
- It kind of resembled a space heater, but it was like nothing I had ever seen before.
It was boxy and had a black mirrored object sitting on top. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought it was solar powered, but who ever heard of a solar powered space heater? You couldn’t get the sun to shine in the house and power it up. I chuckled at the absurdity of a solar powered space heater and pushed it out of my way so I could bring the rest of the groceries into the house. Later that afternoon, my husband asked what I had done with the space heater. I told him it was in the closet, and he got upset. He said there was no way the space heater was going to power up if it wasn’t out in the daylight. He had it sitting right under the skylight to see how long it would take until the space heater was fully charged. I thought it was far-fetched, but I wasn’t the inventor. Two days later, he told me the space heater was fully charged. He turned it on, and it worked well. The only problem was that it only worked for an hour. Maybe he needed more batteries and should charge them over the summer instead of waiting until winter when there weren’t nearly as many hours of sunshine. He told me I didn’t understand what he was trying to do. He picked up the space heater and said he was going back to work.