Re: IMF Investigating the Fed

cavelamb himself wrote:
John R. Carroll wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote:

John R. Carroll wrote:

cavelamb himself wrote:





With reactors in every city, the possibility of something bad
happening goes up proportionally to the number of reactors.

But the "how bad" part is SO VERY bad, that the answer is always
TOO BAD.


Add to that the number of times people feel they have been lied to
about the cost and safety. Remember how it was touted.

"Cheap and Clean unlimited power!"

I think you can see why NIMBY is so prevelant.


Certainly.


It's Fear.

And justified.


It is but in this instance there is a legitimate role for the federal
government to play and I think we'll see them do so.
An act of Congress for the greater good will be required as will a
genuine and honest undertaking to insure the safest implimentation
within the limits of both current technology and a stipulation that
the technologies in our current arsenal be developed continuously in
order that they be improved upon.

The process needs complete transparency.



And therein lies the problem...

With everything done behind closed doors, is there even such a thing
any more?

Did you know that Congress passed a law a while back requiring that the
Federal Budget, every word of it, be made available to the public in a
searchable format on line?

The WH instructed the relevant Department Secratay's to slow roll it and to
this day I don't think the law has been carried out.
In fact, there is less information on line today rather than more in this
format and in some instances what hasn't been removed from the public on
line domain has become a real pain to get to and access.

Obama pitched a real bitch about this when he came to the Senate and he
semms to genuinely believe that web access to the workings of government is
something that ought to be made to happen ASAP.


Time will tell.
If there is enough time left?

It's my understanding that there are about 40 million people drivng in China
right now. I don't know if the number is exactly correct but the point is
that it's a small number considering the population of the country.

China is nearly ten years into a public works project that will connect the
entire country by modern super highways and you will be able to get to
anywhere from anywhere in China ten years hence. This effort dwarfs out
Interstate system of roads by several orders of magnitude.

It's estimated that by 2025 there will be 500 million Chinese on the road so
in the long run it isn't even worth the time required to bother considering
the time factor. There is no time like the present and we will have a very
brief respite to get this right.


You know that there is another solution to the problem, don't you?

Instead of this being a situation of not enough energy to go around,
think of it as just too many people.

That might wind up self correcting...

You can see what's involved with that approach with a glance at modern day
Africa.

--

John R. Carroll
www.machiningsolution.com


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