Toys and Bandits. II - Scientific Toys

Today we continue with the series of posts for our blog in which we dedicate ourselves to pondering and speculating a bit about toys and how they are linked to our esteemed political class. Two issues that are seemingly difficult to relate, but which have much more in common than they seem. Perhaps our political representatives today would be different if, as children, they had played more with scientific and ecological toys, and less with the famous Monopoly game. Just by searching the Internet, you can find a wealth of firsthand information about the excellent management of our always esteemed and never-better-than-praised Ministers of Industry, from 2003 to the present day—Messrs. Piqué, Costa, Montilla, Clos, Sebastián, and Soria—in relation to energy. Data from Eurostat (the organization responsible for European Union statistics) indicate a 103.10% increase in electricity prices from 2003 to 2014, and a 59.35% increase in natural gas prices over the same period. Furthermore, the contribution of solar and wind energy to the country's consumption is limited to 25%, with nuclear, coal, and combined-cycle power plants accounting for more than 50%. Can you imagine what renewable energy production would be like if these ministers had played, researched, and learned with the solar energy kit or the fuel cell car ? We too think we'd be much greener as a country. But there's still time. They can still learn a lot by playing with these simple and entertaining science toys, which we'd be happy to give them!