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Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed
ckbreckenridge writes "Supercompact, superfast, superpowerful turbines called ZEPPS (zero-emission power plants), designed to combat global warming, could help produce the electrical power needed to keep up with 21st century demand. They would consume methane and oxygen and produce liquid carbon dioxide, which could be sequestered underground. The current electricity grid would need to be replaced by a 'supergrid' across the USA, says Jesse H. Ausubel in The Industrial Physicist. Work on such a system should start as soon as possible, since CO2 levels leaped up 2 ppm in the past two years as global warming becomes more of a reality."
Give me a break! Coal power plants do not produce radioactive waste.
Are you really that angry? or just trolling?
Why are so much better, that you deserve to live, while they deserve to die?
Remember that it is by pure chance that we were born where we were born, and they were born less well off.
In any case,your argument needs work.
Third world countries tend to be unstable because they are poor,and poor because they are unstable. It is a painfull process, but they will come out of it eventually,as some have.
This does not mean we should just give them handouts, so much as opportunity.
The third world will not be the hotbed of microchip research anytime soon, but in africa, they have excellent soil. If we stopped subsidizing our cotton farmers (who pollute our water anyway), we could have a thriving cotton economy in Africa! Our cotton farmers could simply farm something else (like marajuana....er "hemp"), farm wind, or farm better quality cotton.
Studies have constantly shown that if the quality of life (especially for women, we wants our women happy) increases, a society will have smaller amounts of children. This is why you rarely see a family of 10 outside of Utah, and they usually require 2 or 3 wives. (Oddly enough, they don't actually have group sex? I just don't see the point of having more than one women if you can't see some hot bi action.)
You are right about religion screwing things up. It is not because of "vaccinations" (remember that if the children live, the parents have fewer of them, which is good becuse dead babies smell bad)
Religion screws things up in Africa because
1. Missionaries (mostly from texas) tell people they should not use condoms.(Missionaries think that educating people about condoms causes sex.) NOT educating people about condoms causes UN-safe sex, resulting in babies, AIDS, and babies who have AIDS.
2. Missionary doctors (again, mostly Texan missionaries) will not tell their female patients that they have the option for an abortion.
3. When my wife and I do it with her girlfriends, I'm the one usually on the bottom. The Missionary position is boring, and you can only have one women at a time! Such bordom! Genocide is the only entertainment.
4. Speaking of genocide. It often comes down to religeon.
5. MOLESTING CHILDREN!!! (Ok, I admit sometimes the wifey and I play alter boy and naughty nuns, or sometimes she wears pigtails and sits on my lap...sometimes I'm "santa", and she's naught again...... but its only fun when you are just PLAYING!)
Instead of saying "Don't have sex with children" missionaries say "marry the children, then make more" this means young girls must stop their education and raise a family! When you are turned into a baby factory, you tend to not have ambitions of learning to read, going to harvard and posting on slashdot. OK. Plenty of illiterates post on slashdot.
So stop being angry, and go get laid! In fact, strike a "blow" against religion, and go after the (of-age and consenting) daughter of the preacher. Tell her LMNOPO says HI.