Battersea Power Station - flaming altar of the modern temple of power

Looking like an enormous upside-down table from Gulliver's Travels with its four cream-coloured legs reaching about 30 metres skyward.

In 1940 RAF pilots used the plumes of white vapour from the chimneys to guide them home in the mist and with invasion imminent, The Bank of England burnt large consignments of bank notes in the Power Station furnaces.

Now here's an idea what with the price of oil soaring to new heights every day. How about reusing it to generate power again by burning banknotes? It's gotta be a helluva lot cheaper than oil or any other source. Maybe we could even extend the idea to all internal combustion engines and finally end our pitiful dependency on oil - and get OPEC off our backs.

www.batterseapowerstation.org.uk/