Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: Engineer
Being a pro-US job nut and an anti trade deficit nut, I might just like your idea.
(oh, and none of the "you're simply a nut" jokes! )
It just annoys me that there are so many opportunities for the US to increase it's production and strengthen in economy but we don't do it. I thought that was the point of having a Republican Party.
One of these reactors would only provide power for about 4K people but it is almost completely meltdown proof. It's clean, it's renewable and it's safe and the Chinese are growing the output potential. If we could get on board and start manufacturing some of the parts we can set them up here and sell them to the ME. And because they use graphite balls with only specks of uranium they can't make weapons out them and they would have no excuse to continue their program if we can provide the power cheaper.
Also the whole war on drugs thing annoys the hell out of me. I don't know how much but because of the 'war' we have to import all of our hemp material which could easily be grown and processed here. I'm sure you remember this...
"A founding father of the Reagan Revolution has put his John Hancock on a pro-pot report.
Milton Friedman leads a list of more than 500 economists from around the U.S. who today will publicly endorse a Harvard University economist's report on the costs of marijuana prohibition and the potential revenue gains from the U.S. government instead legalizing it and taxing its sale. Ending prohibition enforcement would save $7.7 billion in combined state and federal spending, the report says,
while taxation would yield up to $6.2 billion a year."
http://www.forbes.com/services/2005/06/02/cz_qh_0602pot.html