RevBig
Going 2 Church ie Camping
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Short version;
I think we could solve our energy problems and unemployment issues by a series of massive construction projects including building a number of nuclear power plants and electrifying our roads and interstates. We could also solve our oil dependence by placing electrical cable/induction systems in the road system to power a new generation of electric vehicles while allowing current vehicles to use the same road. Private industry would be enriched because new electric vehicles would be required. These new vehicles would use induction (pulling power from the embedded cable or devices in the road), which would be powered by energy from fission reactors.
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Long version (below)
I am no scientist no engineer etc but I do have common sense and life experience to go with a humble MA in theology. It seems to me that most of our energy problems are administrative and emotional. France generates about 75 % of its electrical needs via nuclear fission reactors. We could do the same thing if we would get over the emotional aspects of long-term storage. Our old ‘emotional’ strategy is to provide storage that would be stable over geologic time scales i.e. ten thousand to a million years is not realistic. No, I would guess building a storage facility that would hermetically store hundreds of millions of tons of radioactive waste even a thousand years is pushing the technology envelope. What we should do instead is build a crypt that would safely store the waste say 250 to 500 years. It would be designed to be easily and inexpensively refurbished at regular intervals and the cost of the refurbished could be included in the cost of electrical energy. It may even pay for itself because the waste generates a lot of heat energy.
The president should attempt to influence congress and the senate to get on board with a massive nuclear building mandate. I would suggest using France as a model; they employed many efficient ideas such as having the highest standardization in the industry. That’s not all. I would also direct auto manufactures to build a new kind of electric vehicle. That vehicle would draw its primary electrical from implanted cables in the roadways (induction) as well as use battery power for areas that were not ‘inductified‘ (ha ha my word). Therefore, we would have two massive federal and privatized building projects going at one time. That would be the power plant building projects and a mandate to electrify every main interstate road system in the USA. First, the interstates and cities would be energized, then secondary roads and small towns would receive the upgrades. Our current vehicles would have unfettered use of the roads because laying a cable or induction device in the roadway while traditional traffic flows should be an easy technological feat. It would solve several problems at once including our unemployment plight.
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rs
Short version;
I think we could solve our energy problems and unemployment issues by a series of massive construction projects including building a number of nuclear power plants and electrifying our roads and interstates. We could also solve our oil dependence by placing electrical cable/induction systems in the road system to power a new generation of electric vehicles while allowing current vehicles to use the same road. Private industry would be enriched because new electric vehicles would be required. These new vehicles would use induction (pulling power from the embedded cable or devices in the road), which would be powered by energy from fission reactors.
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Long version (below)
I am no scientist no engineer etc but I do have common sense and life experience to go with a humble MA in theology. It seems to me that most of our energy problems are administrative and emotional. France generates about 75 % of its electrical needs via nuclear fission reactors. We could do the same thing if we would get over the emotional aspects of long-term storage. Our old ‘emotional’ strategy is to provide storage that would be stable over geologic time scales i.e. ten thousand to a million years is not realistic. No, I would guess building a storage facility that would hermetically store hundreds of millions of tons of radioactive waste even a thousand years is pushing the technology envelope. What we should do instead is build a crypt that would safely store the waste say 250 to 500 years. It would be designed to be easily and inexpensively refurbished at regular intervals and the cost of the refurbished could be included in the cost of electrical energy. It may even pay for itself because the waste generates a lot of heat energy.
The president should attempt to influence congress and the senate to get on board with a massive nuclear building mandate. I would suggest using France as a model; they employed many efficient ideas such as having the highest standardization in the industry. That’s not all. I would also direct auto manufactures to build a new kind of electric vehicle. That vehicle would draw its primary electrical from implanted cables in the roadways (induction) as well as use battery power for areas that were not ‘inductified‘ (ha ha my word). Therefore, we would have two massive federal and privatized building projects going at one time. That would be the power plant building projects and a mandate to electrify every main interstate road system in the USA. First, the interstates and cities would be energized, then secondary roads and small towns would receive the upgrades. Our current vehicles would have unfettered use of the roads because laying a cable or induction device in the roadway while traditional traffic flows should be an easy technological feat. It would solve several problems at once including our unemployment plight.
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