Which brings me back to… nuclear power. A great, environmentally-friendly, safe and efficient way to produce electricity (what?!? the eco-freaks have obscured the safety, efficiency and essential “greenness” of nuclear power too effectively with their lies? It figures… ). Heck, with the eco-freaks bottled up, it’d even be extremely inexpensive. MIT already has plans (in the public domain, I think–could be wrong about that) for modular–suitable for near assembly line production–pebble bed reactors–super safe, fairly efficient, LOW tech, etc.

And talk about fuel! What the HECK ought we to do with all the decomissioined nuclear bombs/missles?

Oh, nuclear waste? It’s a SOLVED “problem” (and well-known to be solved).. 1.) re-refine and reuse. 2.) When no longer re-refineable and reusable, encase in glass and drop into a subduction zone (to be naturally recycled in the nuclear-rich interior of the earth).

With abundant electrical power, alternative fuels for transportation (including but not limited to many different forms of electrical power) are relatively simple engineering problems.

oil? Far too valuable to burn. Dependence on foreign oil? That’s another issue, largely ameliorated with abundant electricity–which is NOT an engineering problem but a political one. Shut the Luddites out of the process (heck, build them a rock garden on the moon and give them all one-way tickets), build nuclear power plants out the wazoo, problem solved. We can MAKE our own oil (a plant 45 miles from where I type these words has been doing it for several years), cheaper than we can import it. And even cheaper with abundant electricity.

BTW, I’ve been fiddling with diagrams and drawings, thinking about slapping a hybrid electric together–typical battery power for around town and a trailer/generator for on the road (or for power outages here at the house, like our ice storm this year). If I can ever get my other projects off my plate… *heh*