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5 Ways to Revitalize the United States-

Unread postby Kylon » Mon 25 Dec 2006, 18:28:43

1. Mass Produce lots and lots of ADS Thorium Reactors. Place the Thorium reactors right next to each other and share their radiation shielding, that way the radiation exposure becomes minimal to the surrounding inhabitants, and at the same time, it's extremely cost effective/cheap.

ADS reactors also can't meltdown, and can use thorium or U-238, meaning our fuel supply could last thousands of years.

They would need to be produced cost effectively, assembly line style, so that the energy source wouldn't be cost prohibitive.

2. Pump lots and lots of iron sulfide and phosphorous into the ocean. If we dumped lots of phosphorous and iron sulfide into the ocean, the phytoplankton would bloom significantly. The main limiting reageant in plankton growth are the trace minerals they need. They have plenty of energy, plenty of CO2, plenty of nitrogen and water. They just need minerals like iron, and phosphorous and they can grow. According to wikipedia for every 1 iron atom we put in the ocean, 10,000-100,000 atoms of carbon are bound eventually. In the meantime the phytoplankton absorb sunlight and convert it's energy to chemical potential energy, preventing that sunlight from becoming heat.

And the phytoplankton releases dimethyl sulfide as an aerosol to help cloud formation and to reflect light back into space.

Eliminating most of the problems of global warming would decrease the strength of storms and the damage they inflict, while increasing crop yields and reducing drought, as well as reducing energy needed on heating and cooling.

Furthermore with more phytoplankton in the ocean there would be more ocean life, which would mean there would be more for us to harvest.

3. Split Iraq into Shia, Kurds, and Sunni nations. The Sunni's the Shia and the Kurds hate each other, and won't get along. There isn't enough infrastructure and money to make people willing to embrace multiculturalism. So we should just split them up and let them do what they want to do, this way they won't be fighting over as much about who is going to control Iraq, because they will have their sovereignty.

4. Place Tarriffs on Chinese manufactured goods of skilled products. Make it where goods like cheap slave labor made things like cheap mallets can be imported, and T-Shirts, but block the importation of things like computers, and heavy machinery. Keep the high tech machinery production done in the United States.

5. Phase out Fossil Fuel powered automobiles. Make all Automobiles in the future use hypercapacitors and batteries, so that they can store huge quantities of energy, and so we can have our cars run on electricity in the future, instead of fossil fuels.


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Re: 5 Ways to Revitalize the United States-

Unread postby erl » Mon 25 Dec 2006, 22:59:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', 'u')nless the USA and her Allies are able to cause the poles to re-freeze ... we are fucked.


We in the U.S. are just going to rely on you smart Canadians to do something about it. You're much closer.
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Re: 5 Ways to Revitalize the United States-

Unread postby Kylon » Mon 25 Dec 2006, 23:15:36

If we sequester enough CO2 then we can refreeze the polar ice caps.

Furthermore, if we mass produced ADS Thorium Reactors, we wouldn't be using nearly as much fossil fuels to produce power, which means less CO2 would be released into the Atomosphere.

The enconomy would boom thanks to massive amounts of cheap abudant clean energy, and the temperature would decrease to around a nice level.

The weather would get better, and our crops would increase in number.

I think the ideas that I have mentioned are rather good don't you?
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Re: 5 Ways to Revitalize the United States-

Unread postby 128shot » Tue 26 Dec 2006, 01:01:13

#6


Install Chuck Norris as dictator.
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Re: 5 Ways to Revitalize the United States-

Unread postby 128shot » Tue 26 Dec 2006, 13:34:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('128shot', '#')6


Install Chuck Norris as dictator.


Chuckie is more like bride of chuckie today grasshopper.
His kung fu weak.

What we need is a truly benevolent philosopher king who can turn everyone's lights out.

First thing he would need to do is acknowledge the cosmic cycles by forcing nightly curfews...lights out...everyone up at dawn...out to the fields to tend to the earth...getting exercise and better health would be one of the immediate benefits...i.e. fewer fat unhealthy obese Americans who currently get fed through a drive thru window.

Toiling by the sweat of our brow does not imply when the air conditioning fails.

namaste

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Ha! shows how little you know about the amazing Chuck Norris.

A few facts about Chuck Norris

If you can see Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris can see you, if you can't, you may be seconds away from death!

God wears a WWCND bracelet "What Would Chuck Norris Do?"

Chuck Norris can turn Diamonds into Coal

Chuck Norris can make 3 women orgasm simultaneously by pointing at them and saying "bang"

Some kids can piss their name in snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name in concrete

Chuck Norris' calender goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd. Nobody fools Chuck Norris.

Once, while having sex in a tractor-trailer, part of Chuck Norris' sperm escaped and got into the engine. We now know this truck as
Optimus Prime

Chuck Norris can speak braille

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer, too bad he has never cried

Most people wear Superman underwear, Superman wears Chuck Norris underwear

Chuck Norris owns the greatest Poker Face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 World Series of Poker despite him holding just a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game Uno.

Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Chuck Norris can kill 100 percent of whatever the fuck he wants

Chuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter"

Chuck Norris killed 50 Cent and still had change to spare.

Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors

Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris

A recent study has found that the fastest, easiest, and most effective way to commit suicide is to walk up to Chuck Norris and call him a pussy.

God doesnt make people retarded, Chuck Norris does.

The Bible's original title was "Chuck Norris and friends"

Chuck Norris was the 4th wise man to visist baby jesus, bestowing upon him a Chuck Norris like beard, however, the other 3 wisemen were so jealous of this feat, that they edited him out of the bible.

All 3 died of mysterious Round house kick related injuries.


Who wants to mess with Chuck Norris now huh?
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Re: 5 Ways to Revitalize the United States-

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Tue 26 Dec 2006, 16:30:37

1) Chuck norris is a pathetic old man who now wears diapers.

2) <Deleted suggestions of illegal acts of violence - TheTurtle>
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