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Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou on June 19, 1946) to Greek Cypriot parents is an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete. He currently serves as Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.

Stelarc's idiosyncratic performances often involve robotics or other relatively modern technology integrated with his body somehow. In 25 different performances he has hung himself in flesh hook suspension, often with one of his robotic inventions integrated. In another performance he allowed his body to be controlled remotely by electronic muscle stimulators connected to the internet. He has also performed with a robotic third hand, a robotic third arm, and a pneumatic spider-like six-legged walking machine which sits the user in the center of the legs and allows them to control the machine through arm gestures.

His works have been heralded for their abilities to embrace a wider audience, the best example of this was his allowance for the worldwide audience to log into the exhibition and thus access or control the electrodes his own body was hooked up to.

Very believable! What you might also see (particularly in areas lacking sun and/or hydro power) is independent small off the grid local generators using clean burn technologies on some sort of co-op basis. These generators could then sell power back to the grid to potentially reduce costs during lower peak times.

I've heard about cleaner-burn, but I've not heard of small localized independent generation, at least not in Canada / US (have not really looked too hard though).

By "independent small off the grid local generators" "on some sort of co-op basis" I meant neighborhood-ish sized as owned by the users.

I guess you are wondering if the CO2 expelled by burning is absorbed by the plantations? Where are these plantations & small scale generators?

Combined heat and power from wood waste
in Sweden
ENA-Kraft Ltd is an energy producer located in
Enköping, Sweden (around 70km west of Stockholm).
The plant is owned by Enköping Energy and Västerås
Energy, and supplies the district's network with both
heat and electricity.
The main fuel for the plant is wood fuel, with a
proportion supplied from the city dump, and the
balance comprised of a mix of biofuels including
bark, sawdust, residues from logging operations,
and Salix species (willow) specially-grown on short
rotations for biofuel. The typical fuel mixture is
50% wood chips, 15% sawdust, 15% Salix and 20%
bark, and the average moisture content of the fuel is
between 40 - 60%.he overall biofuel consumption is 100 cubic metres
per hour, and the electricity is produced in the
neighbourhood of the city of Enköping.

Forest owners within a 70 km radius supply the
plant with residues from normal timber harvesting
operations (such as the tree tops and the branches).
The sawdust and bark is supplied from local sawmills.

Salix is grown on local farmland, and chipped in-
field, then delivered to the plant for processing.
The total connected power from the plant is 140 MW,
and there are 1,238 connected subscribers, of which
947 are single family houses.

In 1997, the total delivered heat from the plant was 209,498 MWh
(754 TJ). It was delivered over a grid network of 72 km. The total water volume in the network is 3.100 m³, and water is heated in the boiler and pumped around the network in a closed system to subscribers
in the town of Enköping.

On the down side, it will be difficult to hide.