Bob Jackson

Washington is Broke, Broken & Dysfunctional. Fix Washington with a Constitutional Amendment. "Live and Let Live" would be good national policy.

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Future energy development faces great challenges due to an increasing world population, demands for higher standards of living, demands for less pollution and a much discussed end to fossil fuels. Without energy, the world's entire industrialized infrastructure would collapse agriculture, transportation, waste collection, information technology, communications and much of the prerequisites that a developed nation takes for granted.
 
        A shortage of the energy needed to        sustain the world's infrastructure could lead to a Malthusian catastrophe.

Our standard of living is based literally on two factors, emotions and a multitude of "things."   Emotions (thoughts, love, hate, greed, values, religion, etc.) are actually free.   All humans since caveman days have all, and sometimes more, emotions that can be handled rationally.  All "things" that form our physical standard of living must be produced and that requires energy.  
 
Unfortunately politicians deal almost entirely on emotions.  This is why our current ever expanding government has not and will not develop an effective energy policy.
 
Engineers build things. All building processes require energy. We all desire a higher material standard of living.  The American standard of living was increased from rudimentary frontierism to the highest in the world based on individual invention, hard work and low cost plentiful energy.   Washington has promised us a lower standard of living due to a failed energy program and ever increasing energy costs.     
 
Ethanol Is a prime example of the political ignorance of a dysfunctional government..

 

Both Democrats and Republicans are using tax dollars on the promotion of ethanol as a significant fuel for the future.   It makes no sense attacking the food supply when so many in the world do not have enough to eat.  Most importantly there is more fossil fuel energy required to make ethanol than the ethanol energy produced.  Cornell University has summarized this net loss of energy as the following,

 

 

 
Check the Washington math.  Say the production cost of a gallon of gasoline is $2.00.  Add a dollar tax for a price of $3.00.  Say the production cost of a gallon of ethanol is $4.00.  Deduct a subsidy (taxpayer money) of $1.00 for a price of $3.00.  Washington then claims that the cost to the public is the same for gasoline or ethanol.  Stupid is.  Stupid does.
 
                      

The Energy issue will be expanded in the near future for ---

Future world use will increase and access to fossil fuels will be more expensive.

The US is not the major world energy user and we can not stop or restrain other nations from using more energy.

Replacement of fossil fuels with a less expensive energy source is the real goal.  
 
Actually promote sensible alternate energy sources like wind, tides, solar etc.  But not foolish alternates like ethanol.
 
How much CO2 is actually being created in the world?

Let’s build 500 new nuclear reactors over the next 20 years and then we would then have about 1/3 of our energy requirements met.   500 new reactors is a lot, but it illustrates the size of the problem.  Renewable fuel energy sources can not match 500 reactors much less supply the energy needs of the country.

Why support Brazil’s sugar cane conversion to ethanol energy when that is requiring clear cutting of the rain forests?   Where are the concerned environmentalists?

Bob has a plan for fusion reactor development.

1.  Ambient temperature superconductive material makes the control of the fusion reaction feasible.
2.  Fusion energy generation is the best potential for American leadership and profit for world energy solutions.
3.  Our government has subcontracted this important research to the French and is paying them $1 billion to get the French in a leadership role.  Stupid is. Stupid does.
4.  Fusion energy will be totally non-polluting and will be totally environmentally friendly.
 
 
                      Bob designed, made and sold these suits                      to protect operators handling nuclear fuel and plutonium
 
 
 
 
Cook Nuclear Plant, Michigan
 Bob applied engineering and management for the manufacturing of the fuel, fuel assemblies, control rods, heat exchangers, containment liners, exterior tanks, spent fuel pits and more.