big finish coming i think, page-17

My grandmother still had gaslight in her house when I was a boy, and she viewed the new "'lectric" with implacable suspicion; the snaky wires and dangerous looking plugs and bulbs alarmed her. When she picked up a phone she did so like she was expecting it to explode. Some people are just as suspicious about U power, and it is tragic that many of them are actively working against C02 emissions and U power simultaneously, not realising that the latter is our major hope to combat the former.