The mystery of suspended energy…

That night I woke up suddenly: glom, it was so hot that I felt more melted than a gorgonzola fondue … Why had the fan stopped working ?!

I tried to start it again … but I couldn’t.

I pressed the switch to turn on the light … but it remained off.

I groped my way to the window to open it … and I realized that the whole street was so dark that a rat could not be distinguished from a cat. The street lamps were all turned off!

For a thousand mozzarella cheese … something had to have happened to the Topaz plant!

The following morning the electricity had not yet returned, so I asked for help from my investigator friend Nosysquitt and his cousin, the inventor Genius: we discovered that the great heat had led all the inhabitants of Topaz to turn on air conditioners and fans at maximum power, draining the energy from the plant.

What could we come up with to resolve the situation?

No inhabitant could withstand the great heat … Not to mention the traffic, dead traffic lights, closed shops, a great noise from mouseclacson! A CHEAP CATASTROPHE!

IMPRESSIVE! Even our beloved and most precious Statue of Formigility has almost melted!Even my ancient collection of 1772 cheese crusts is going bad! Oh noooooooo !!!!!Nosysquitt is a cheese I have known since I was a buttermilk, with grayish fur and shiny mustaches of brilliantine, it never separates from its yellowish raincoat and is a type … oops, an investigative mouse, that if it doesn’t stick its nose in business others are not happy! Ah, I forgot, he also loves bananas! Directs the SQUITT investigation agency; he is a smart guy, he solves cases with a topying speed and loves to play pranks … especially to me!Genius has a degree in Pistachio engineering and is a super-technological inventor, always ready to build one of his geniuses. It’s the famous C.R.U.S.T. You will have understood that it has only one fixation: THE PISTACHIOUS !!!!!Sitting at my squeaky desk, we began to analyze the facts:TOPAZ WAS NO ENERGY!So: DANGERS at every corner !!!!!Traffic lights off, traffic on tilt! At night you risked confusing it with the Mysterious Valley!Closed shops, stratotopic files to get out of the city, no computers, no phones … but above all nothing NEWS!Ah! However my name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton!

And I am the director of the “Echo del Rodent”, the most famous newspaper of the mouse-Iland i. I love reading books and I’m really writing a lot of books that all the inhabitants of the Rattico Islands like!

I’m a smart guy. I’m a big coward: I hate to go to the elevator and on motorcycles, especially with that reckless lover of tea shopping, my sister! I also hate insects and snakes and everything that is dangerous in general. But my biggest fear is the DAARKKKK !!!!!!! And this situation is really close to me!

– Boys, we have to find a solution! I said.

I walked away to get an idea, but I could only think that I could do nothing, no scoop, no article to be published because of this damn exhausted energy!

-NOTHING WORKS! I can’t let my people know that it’s all because of the exaggerated consumption of energy! If all the rotary presses don’t work, I won’t be able to print and sell even a copy! RISK OF FAILING and closing this newspaper that my grandfather Torquato opened many years ago! OH NO !!! I DON’T WANT TO NEVER THINK !!!! – I shouted!

My friends came running and Nosysquitt, all agitated and squeaky for having had an illumination, told me:

-I know , a patching Quick Paw association that will help us solve the problem. Their motto is: “Give me money and run away quickly” -.

They are bulging and crafty Bigmice that will help us to bring coal, oil and gas to our island in a short time at bargain prices! All-around energy … Come !!! Internet, play station, turbo car with all rats and fresh air even at noon! We could waste as much as we want!

Genius answered all angry: – But that !!! Keep calm! This is FAKE ENERGY! They are polluting energies that damage our beautiful island, which we must PROTECT! Do you know SERRA EFFECT? THE HOLE OF OZONE? Topaz will succumb! His air will become unbreathable, the heat will increase more every year and we will all get sick, ALL !!!!!

-Sorry Genius but what is the greenhouse for us? To grow flowers perhaps? Or for vegetables? -.

-NOOOOOOO !!!!!!!! But what you say! The greenhouse effect is a phenomenon caused by the action of the mouse on nature! And coal is the main cause of this effect; not to mention the oil that pollutes not only air but also water and makes all living beings sick! Furthermore, they must be kept as much as possible, their combustion produces toxic substances that cannot be reused -.

-I know you are the genius of the family! I know you know everything and that you love nature, but it’s not nice that you beat your superiority in front of your mustache! -.

– Nosy, it’s not my fault if you can’t think of the consequences! These substances will one day end. They are in fact called EXHAUSTABLE SOURCES … the word says it! If we use energy from RENEWABLE sources, produced by Nature, for free, our island will become famous! Without pollution, without disease and known throughout the rat world for its clean air.

WE MUST FIND A SOLUTION, otherwise we will become the cheesy laughingstock of all the mice islands!

Geronimo shot straight on the back legs, saying: – I had a fantastic idea! What if we invented a contest of inventions of techno-machines that produce renewable energy for the whole city ?! As you can see, looking at the pinwheel in my hand, blowing, I produce VENTO that makes it turn. Yup! This could be an idea to be exploited for our invention: WIND ENERGY! -.

Nosy: -In case there are other sources of clean energy? -.

-Cheesebingo! -, Genius added, that genius inventor eats peanuts, – Of course! Wind yes, but then we can also get clean energy from the sun and water! But how can we spread the word if we can’t print the newspaper? -.

– Take Geronimo’s Leemoucheese! We could make it run for Topaz to spread the news of the competition. What are you saying? -.

Geronimo: -The car is in the garage, I run to put it in motion. You take the megaphone and join me! I already have in mind what to say -.

So … turning to the streets you could hear Geronimo’s voice saying: “HEAR THE HEARING … TOPAZIA NEEDS YOU! PARTICIPATE IN THE COMPETITION “SAVE THE TOPOMONDO WITH CLEAN ENERGY ALL OVER”. THE BEST INVENTIONS WILL BE AWARDED! FOR ALL PISTACHIOS, BANANAS AND CHEESES CHOSEN ”.

Sally Rasmaussen, a big topast with a pink dress, was outside the balcony when she heard Stilton’s slogan.

That crafty director of the “Newspaper of the mouse”, was her worst enemy. A very self-confident rat that did not stop from anything. With a narrow nose, he thought:

“This is the right time to destroy Geronimo and finally take its place in the Echo of the Rodent! I will write an article that will deceive the rats and show that Girolamo Stilton is a crook! YOU ARE A GENIUS SALLY !!! “.

His ice eyes gleamed, his purple claws ticked. “I have a generator in the cellar that I will use to print the newspaper and I will write that THERE ARE NO RENEWABLE ENERGIES!”, He thought.

The following day all Topaz was full of newspapers.

I had just arrived in my office when I saw Nosysquitt and Genius discussing: -FOR THOUSAND BANANILLE! Have you seen him, Geronimo? -.

Seen what? -.

– The newspaper, Geronimo! -.

– Oh yes, damn if I saw it! How did Sally print it? -.

-Geronimo, but is it possible that you don’t understand ?! He did it because he can’t stand the idea that you are a more important director than you! He told a slum of lies writing that the contest is rigged and that it will never be possible to construct gadgets that produce clean energy. He wrote that energy can only be obtained with coal, oil and methane, saying that they do not pollute and that they will never end! -.

On the day of the competition all the mice showed up but nobody competed. Only Genius brought his inventions, explaining that they all produced healthy, inexhaustible energy:

FORMAGGIOLICHE and BICIVOLTAICA transformed the force of movement into energy;

PHOTORACTIC PANELS captured the light of the sun;

WINDCHEESE,  WATERGRUYERE

exploited the force of water.

Everyone started to whistle and someone started screaming: “BUUUUUU !!!!!!” Sally is right !!!! Fake !!! Liars!!-.

Geronimo said: -It is all the fault of that big mouse with four slices! For a thousand MOZZARELLA CHEESE! I really don’t know how I’ll make people understand what will happen if we continue to pollute! -.

– Now let’s show you what cheese we’re made of! – Genius squeaked to the megaphone. -MICE! Climb up everyone on my hot topical machine C.R.U.S.T.! -.

-You are a genius. We could go back in time and fix things-.

– We will do better! We will show them what will happen if we continue to pollute-.

So he took them into Topazia’s future stratotopic and everyone saw that it was covered by a gray cloud of smog that did not let the sun’s rays pass, the plants were sick, the brown sea and the inhabitants wore masks.

Back in the present, they were all stunned and dared not say a word. Everybody apologized to the three friends and with them wrote some rules that Geronimo would later publish in his newspaper to inform the toponym of how to save energy: