Another common thought that is inside my head was an energy machine that doesn't work. I imagined having a sphere coated in a paint that absorbs most of the sun's radiation, then convects the heat into a metal rod, the rod has spring like protrusions branching off it that expand and rotate very slowly as they expand and push a gear system that has a high gear ratio so the end of the transmission is a spinning dynamo. It doesn't work because it would expand too slowly and to get the speed needed there would need to be a very high gear ratio and the pressure needed to overcome the gears at that ratio would be more than the strength of the spring. Behind the sphere there would be a small windmill and there is a grove around the spear to let the wind pass through. The logical part of my brain says it doesn't work so need to keep changing it. Eventually I would need to build real test rigs, but my home is too small.
I was also wondering what a character would look like if it represented the word 'inflation'. £ = pound, π = pi, $ = dollar. I imagined a stick man/ bank director holding a whiskey flask in one hand and printing money with the other and missing his old job at MC Donald's because he didn't feel so much stress when he worked there. I think of silly things sometimes.
