Posted by 64Bowtie on July 1, 2008, at 13:15:52 [reposted on July 6, 2008, at 13:09:23 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Anyone Else Starting To Fear The Economy? » Midnightblue, posted by Dinah on June 30, 2008, at 17:22:03
» Dinah » >>> Definitely no easy fix. If someone were to invent tomorrow an affordable and effective alternative to combustion engines, it would still take years and years to replace the existing vehicles. And the same with other sorts of oil consumers. Or to build mass transit systems even if they were safe, clean, and went where people need to go. It's a mess. >
Rod <<< What takes so long is mandated by corporate accountants/attorneys who know that government money is new-money to the bottom line and nearly free because its grant-money... Government has a long "gestation", so the biggest folks are able to survive till it arrives... This "gestation" period for grants takes on a persona of its own, as if demanding that grants take an enormous amount of time to fund...
Rod <<< We see in the news all this noise about the Nuclear waste not having a safe home... Well, first off, Nuclear waste isn't done being Nuclear yet, as evidenced by the heat it generates... A "not perfect" but still "mighty fine" solution would be to send the waste material out with a NASA space probe, if and only if it would somehow generate electricity, much needed in deep space, and leave those elaborate and complex solar arrays here for us to use...
Rod <<< In Scientific American about 6 years ago, there was an expose' of a (sub-critical) Nuclear battery that worked by converting heat from the infra red frequencies into electricity; virtually forever; again perfect for a space probe... 2 drawbacks are the tremendous weight contained in small amounts of the waste and protective containers, along with problems of handling unstable sub-critical materials until it gets into space and then the protection of distance takes over...
Rod <<< Ah, distance; let me bend your mind around this concept, only let it stay here on earth... The Russians have drilled down to a level of 42 miles looking for oil... Now, mind you, oil companies have been drilling down then sideways for many years, and many lawsuits and claims of theft by neighbors seem to prove its possible... No rocket-science required to figure that the Russians could drill down 1 mile then hundreds of miles sideways and deplete our ANWAR reserve without us killing a single reservation animal... And, the Gull Island oil field nearby ANWAR is four times as big and being kept (mostly) secret for future military contingencies...
Rod <<< The point is, we could drill down a mile and place the Nuclear battery full of waste material, allowing for whole cities to safely get cheap electricity, forever... Also, a very small amount could be used 1,000 feet down, safely powering a home site 24/7 forever... 1,000 feet is a 1,000 10th thickenesses; more than enough for radioctive safety, since waste is never more than 10 to the 8th Curie in intensity; 120 times deeper than necessary for extra safety... The trade off is drilling, casing and platform at the top is about $7,000... I'm positive because of a water well I facillitated on family property about 6 months ago cost just about that much...
Rod <<< Not to be outdone by current technology, about a hundred years ago, Tesla got in trouble for trying to harness lightening on a daily and continuous basis... He never quite figured out how to turn a house into some kind of antenna to collect positively charged "air", pass it through the appliances and entertainment equipment in the house, depositing it in the negatively charged earth... Now wouldn't that cause shortness of breath in the boardrooms of our biggest power companies;
******* FREE ELECTRICITY 24/7!!! *******
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