What new ideas or technologies should we be investing in today?
Our government has thrown around enough money subsidizing special interests and excusing failure. It is time for solutions.
Please read the speech below, and share your answers with me to this pressing question:
http://www.johnmccain.com/energysecurity/
What new technologies or new ideas should we be investing in today?
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Since it takes about 7-15 years to site select and build a nuclear power plant, I would suggest looking at some different designs like a pebble reactor, and or using plutonium as the fuel source.
Yes the biggest issue with plutonium is the security of the fuel and waste material, however you have 7 years to figure out how to solve this problem. (And its solvable)
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Solar. I mean self-sufficient homes and businesses. Terrorists strike congested targets, the more self-sufficient individuals can become, the less susceptible we are to attack.
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Ones that are self - sustaining
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Clarification added August 6, 2008:
Specific to technology, the Government needs a Chief Social Media Officer (CSMO). It bothers me (and I believe others as well) that we are required to vote for a candidate - as opposed to a specific cause or action). After all my (anyone's) vote might be republican when it comes to economic matters, however I might be democratic when it comes to others
The first item on our CSMO's agenda should be to create a platform whereby individuals can speak out on where they stand - on a 'topic' by 'topic' basis.
Using this platform, we should then all prioritize what is the best compromise of what can actually be tackled, and of those, which are most important. Once we have all decided on what issue to tackle, we should all then be able to collectively vote on how to achieve the best result. The President should then carry out OUR collective vision, not their own. Government is of the people, and for the people. Time to take it back...
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New Idea: Export promotion of fuel guzzlers to other countries and promotion of fuel efficient vehicles for city and highway travel.
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Technology for sustainable and renewable energy exists. The US should help companies utilise solar energy and biomass generators. There's no point in spending millions to research efficient use of energy when the problem is this long term. It's the same everywhere. Time to get our hands in to our deep pockets.
Tim S
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Software technologies that help US manufacturers level the global playing field. Also, alternative fuels need to be developed so we can generate our own fuels and ideally export them to other countries so we are not dependent on foreign petroleum products.
I agree with Andrew Finkle's suggestion that they be self-sustaining.
Otherwise, Paris Hilton has a few ideas:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
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John B
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#1 Invest in the technology to help make every citizens opinion more easily available to those who are supposed to represent us and make the actions of those who are supposed to represent us more transaprent to the citizenry.
#2 Invest in the technology to support the mations security and defense. This includes keeping out illegal aliens (no amnesty, ever). This includes defending against terrorism and attack. This does not include attacking another country.
#3 Invest in the technology to attain energy independence. This includes conservation, offshore drilling, solar, wind, nuclear, and any other safe technology that canbe developed.
David R B
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Dear Mr McCain,
I would recommend;
1. Further extensions to the wind power investment project of Mr T Boone Pickens.
2. Further deployment of solar technology both at residential, commercial and power grid utility level.
3. Further investigations into the emergent photosynthetic hydrogen production technology as Hydrogen is the logical choice for long term vehicle fuel.
4. Deployment of waste management generation converting MH4 from GHG gas to power generating fuel via the jensbacher motor technology.
5. Reduction of demand by deployment of LED lighting systems, intelligent building management systems, solar generative glass, and the new material technology which is emerging allowing zero carbon footprint buildings to be constructed.
6. Reviewing the CCC scheme designed by Mr Charles Caro which would also permit redundant real estate and commercial centres to be usefully deployed back into the socio economic engine of the country, and allow for the emergence of enterprise zones encouraging start up companies to boost the US economy.
These are just a small selection of the measures which would be available to re-stimulate the economy and to decrease US dependence on imported resources which can also be directed towards the future energy demands of the US which are predicted to rise by 50% by 2030 and will require infrastructure investments to provide for this anticipated demand growth curve.
The high price of oil at over $120 US per barrel makes alternative energy generation viable which it would not have been based on the $50 per barrel calculations upon which most studies were based.
Best wishes
David
Clarification added August 6, 2008:
I would also strongly recommend a serious initiative into public private partnerships as I believe that the future provision in energy provision will best be provided by combined measures where private investors partner with government to provide solutions based upon best practice between the public and private sectors thus guaranteeing both the resources, the entrepreneurial and capital required with the support of the legislative framework needed to deliver the results in the best long term interests of the country.
Matthew H
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Eliminate Pork Barrel spending completely.
Enact the line item veto.
End entitlement programs.
End all benefits for illegal aliens.
Reduce taxes across the board.
Invest in technology, alternative energy and drill NOW.
Increase military budget, specifically that of the Marine Corps, they are not funded enough.
Go get em, we know you can do it!
John -
Greenhouse gasses may or may not be the issue all the doomsayers insist, but even the most anti-green people out there would have to agree that it can't hurt anything to stop pumping carbon into the atmosphere.
It can't hurt, that is, unless in doing so you bankrupt the world’s consumers, starve them by burning their food for fuel, and regulate viable alternatives out of existence. Let it become economically viable and you will be amazed at how Green big business suddenly and truly becomes. Not “carbon credits” or “cap and trade” but the real, meaningful thing.
Drill. Now. Whether it takes two years or seven or ten or twenty doesn't really matter, we will still need that oil when it hits the market. If all goes well it won't be needed to power transportation, but we will still use computers and plastic bags, still wear clothes and eyeglasses, still drink bottled water and play sports and engage in a whole host of activities that require petroleum. Converting carbon into things instead of burning it for energy will still keep the bulk of it locked up and out of the atmosphere.
Having acknowledged that, get the heck out of the way of the American Capitalist. Don't bribe him; just let him do what he does best. Find newer and better ways to produce energy from wind, water, the sun, geothermal, nuclear and many other means that will be developed over time. It doesn't take tax money being fished out of my pocket to bring about innovation. Only the foolish sort of people who truly believe large corporations actually pay taxes instead of passing those costs along to the consumer will believe that your proposed $5,000 tax credit to the purchaser is anything other than a stage magician’s trick that will raise the sticker price of those new zero-emission cars by exactly $5,000. From your lips to big auto’s hips – and the consumer is supposed to feel good because he’s being “given” something. It takes government removing regulatory roadblocks and disincentives. It takes leadership with the courage to explain to the tree huggers that the barn swallow existed long before barns did, and the same bird would muddle along just fine if all barns were eliminated tomorrow. Some old things give way to new - that is life, and natural, and not always pleasant. Plants and animals managed to become extinct long before humankind showed up to help things along, and would continue to do so even if the mother ship came and collected each of us this afternoon.
What we need to invest in is the free market and ingenuity. Leave the thinkers and tinkerers alone to do their jobs, and they will come up with profitable ways to feed, clothe, shelter, and power this civilization that do not render the planet uninhabitable. When they do so, do not penalize them for success. Winning is a not a crime, it is a virtue. Winning is accomplished by those who are not too lazy to get off their backsides and accomplish something with the life they have been given. The Constitution points out the God given right to the pursuit of happiness. Nowhere are you guaranteed it will be brought to you while chomping Ding Dongs in front of the television set.
You want a new idea to invest in, John? Invest in respect - respect for oneself, respect for one's family, respect for one's community, and respect for the idea that no one should ever be allowed to do for you that which you are more than capable of doing yourself.
Nail that, and the rest would wind up taking care of itself.
The only choices should be green sources. Solar, wind and bio fuels. I am completely against Nuclear.
Electric cars... so batteries (or other ways of storing potential energy) are key. Once you propel via electricity we can pick and choose how to generate it cleanly whether that's onboard or at home.
DOMESTIC DRILLING!! ANWR!!!! Make it happen Senator!
Robert (Bob) T
Recruiting Consultant at RecruitANurse.com, Division of Recruitment & Retention Resources, Inc.
100 MPG Cars.
Triple pane windows.
Get rid of Texas politicians.
Sugar based fuel (like Brazil)
55 MPH on the highways
High Speed Trains
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Off Shore Wind Farms
Nuclear Power Plants with full fuel rod reprocessing in order to minimize nuclear waste
Nuclear Waste Storage
Batteries for Electric/hybrid cars
Fusion
Desalination Plants based on alternative fuel sources
More Efficient Solar Panels
Coal Gasification
How about something that wipes out most of the laws congress has passed over the past 150 years and then keeps them from passing any new ones?
Joseph G
Director at USM Business & Innovation Assistance Center
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Fusion reactor technology. Its nuclear energy with out the waste. It also gives an economic justification for going back to the Moon, helium 3 which is the best fuel for fusion reactors. H3 is rare on Earth but is blown off by the Sun and can be found in the Moon's regolith.
In the meantime let the free market do its job.
Alternative energy including wave, hydrogen, solar, wind and nuclear.
Alternative modalities for transporting people including revitalizing public transit and encouraging the automotive industry to designed vehicles that may not be powered by fossil fuel and designed with 3,000 lbs of steel.
Additionally, with the the social connected-ness and network infrastructure available - it calls into question the need for a "representative" form of government. While I don't think a pure democracy is justified - as the voice of the minority needs to be heard - yet the form of representative government established in an 18th century agrarian society needs to be revisited and re-evaluated.
I appreciate your pitch for Nuclear, however, it takes at least four years to obtain permits and there are insufficient 'build' facilities to support the plants that are already slated to come on line. Beyond this, the operation of a nuclear plant requires proximity to water, which is also a precious resource.
I would like to see greater investment in wind and/or solar for general energy use.
Fusion research that will ultimately provide unlimited green power and forever eliminate our dependece on fossil fuels.
Suni P
Behavioral Medicine Researcher and psychology professor
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Wireless for all citizens! Other countries do this and are outstripping us with the tech knowledge their children are acquiring.
For all the money we have spent in Iraq, if we would have spent that in solar energy development, for R&D and subsidizing general public adoption of the technology, the country will be so much better off.
Andrew C
Entrepreneur, Brainstormer, Process Improvement Professional
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Thanks for asking the question !
We need to be pursuing all options in parallel :
1. Clean Coal Energy
2. Safe Nuclear Energy (leverage learning from Japan and France)
3. Flex-fuel Vehicles and Ethanol generation
4. Hybrid Vehicles and Battery technology R&D
5. Solar Energy
6. Wind Energy
7. Hydro-generated Energy
8. Geothermal Energy
As with any startup effort, it is hard to pick "one" as the answer - need to invest in all areas with focus (i.e. Texas resources could work on Wind Energy). We can win the war on foriegn energy dependence !
Best regards,
Andrew Cahoon
Dear Mr McCain,
We should invest in human capital development in a free and stimulating society, incl. health care, permanent education and active aging. We should also invest in energy saving technologies, clean energy, telecommunication and international cooperation.
Best regards,
Marco Brouwer
John-
Clearly, we need to look at alternative fuel sources (particularly wind and solar) and the technologies that support their development. Additionally, I would like to see better technology employed to control our borders and who has access to our country.
If you have any pull in these areas, please see what you can do. If I may be of additional service to you, don't hesitate to contact me.
Jay
Dianne W
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The new idea that used to be a commonly held belief: that it is quite honorable to cultivate personal relationships with your neighbors....step outside and visit with real live people in your neighborhood.
Reinvent the front porch in neighborhoods. Reinstate conversation with real live people.
This is one of the basic ways to strengthen our country...reinstate the desirability of real-time, live conversations.
encourage nationwide congestion pricing and eventually road pricing as a new mechanism to finance infrastructure development. Eliminates the special interests and earmarked financing by redistribution of the inefficient and increasingly inadequate gas tax.
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Roy R also suggests this expert on this topic:
2 words: Pickens Plan!!!!!
Bill W
Sales Representative Airtab, LLC, As an open networker I accept invitations. billwolo@yahoo.com
Yes alternative fuels. The market have great viable LP and CNG converstions kits etc that are there and work. However, the EPA rule changes that were suppose to help are preventing the implementation. It use to be you could certify a engine and it would be approved for any vehicle application, for as long as the engine did not have any major changes. Now the same engine requires separate testing for every single application and new testing every year even if there are no changes. Either give tax incentives for the testing or go back to the old rules. It has killed all the niche markets and this slows the converstion to large scale production.
Plus there are many product out there that help save fuel. I sell one. You could install it on your bus and it will improve your fuel economy by 4%. Imagine if every bus and truck, delivery van and tractor-trailer got 4% better gas milage. It only costs about $300 for the Airtabs, and I am sure I could get them donated if you do it as a press event!
Bill Woloszynski
Sales Representative Airtab, LLC
billwolo@airtabusa.com
937-336-0714
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