Joe
Fission is here, and the only reason we have the acid rain / asthma from burning coal with traces of sulfur is because of environmentalists, short sighted pandering politicians and scaremongers in the media.
So smog, created in large part by auto pollutants, is not responsible at all for acid rain nor asthma. Thank you for that...I'll feel much on trips to LA.
Because of this, there is a belief that nuclear energy is at a dead end, and not enough resources are being allocated to perfecting it.
The problem with nuclear energy is that its a dangerous source of power that scientists do not have total control over....and people in general feel threatened by it. The Chernoybal's of the world do not help matters.
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You don't think we are capable of making good mass transit but we accomplished the above so easily....spoken liken a visionary scientist, right?!!
The difference is there is money to be made (doing what I described). Mass transit is a non-profit zone, and as long as it is, the odds for improvements are against it. At least in America. The US government at all levels seems to have this unusual ability of attracting the worst employees.
Because we don't believe gov't can be beneficial....we have believed that since the country was started. So we don't care who works in gov't and if they do, they are perceived as losers.
Furthermore, good gov't takes work and requires some participation on the part of its citizenry...that's another thing we don't believe in, public participation.
Providing services to government is an absolute nightmare as well. Our company was invited to submit a bid for a government contract, and after reading about all of the paperwork needed, about invading the privacy of our employees in order to satisfy all the racial / ethnic reporting that the idiots in the governmetn requires, we determined that the additional overhead was more that the value of the contract, and we did not bid.
Because companies and gov't work almost at cross purposes....gov'ts are supposed to benefit all the people whereas companies are only concerned about their owners/shareholders and their directors; hence the constant antgonism between gov't and the private sector.
And if CSCO made all the demands that gov't does, I bet your company would learn the rules behind those demands real fast.
In order to get a contract from this particular government, you had to sign that you deplore the current government of Burma, and that, in case you open a branch in Northern Ireland, you will give some special treatment to Catolics. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry as I was reading this.
I know...why should your company give a sh*t re the people in Burma or Ireland...there's no profit in that.
I think there is a "dirty" industrial stage that economies need to go through to become rich and clean. The US is past that stage, and we are increasingly richer and cleaner. I just don't know how the poor countries can make the leap without going through the dirty stage.
That's right...we go thru the dirty stage and now make only clean products, and all our toys that make a dirty mess?... we import from other countries. Good one!!
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