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Gift #1: Hydrogen powered engines
Gift #2: Universal Healthcare.
Problems solved by Gift #1: pollution, energy shortage, fracking and coal mining pollution of last fresh water resources in the US, languishing economy from foreign energy and domestically-damaging energy policies. Wild and increasingly deadly/unpredictable severe weather & damage to infrastructure thereby.
Problems solved by Gift #2: Business bankruptcy. Personal bankruptcy. Stagnant economy. Jobless rate. Foreign debt. 100s of millions of vulnerable/stressed/sick people/"herd members" being perfect vectors for a new plague.
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#1 Discussion.
For a very long time now, decades if not longer, we have known how to use electricity to separate the hydrogen atoms from Oxygen in the simple water molecule. It's called electrolysis.
We have a device sold in kits today that takes water from a reservoir, like a gas tank, and uses a secondary alternator belt running off an engine that creates a current that separates hydrogen from oxygen. This liberates the hydrogen to be burned immediately in the combustion cycle of any engine. When it burns, it recombines with the oxygen to create water again in the form of steam vapor. This then can be recycled to produce more forward thrust.
There are no hydrogen storage tanks that can explode. The system is safe and on-demand. Water that has some particulates dissolved in it actually improves the efficiency of the system. Ergo, filtered seawater would run this country. And since sea levels have risen and we can soon kiss large sections of Florida goodbye as a result, using sea water is not going to be a foreseeable problem. None of our fracking-polluted fresh water reserves need be tapped for this boon to our energy problems.
The reason we haven't used this technology is because the fuel is free, the mechanism extraordinarily simple to construct and therefore, the oil companies would be slowly put out of business. That's it. That's the only reason we aren't using it. And by the way, hydrogen engines produce more power than gasoline ones.
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#2 Discussion
Universal Healthcare [UHC] is the magic bullet to our economic woes. If it was passed today in Congress or enacted by an emergency mandate from Executive order through the CDC, UHC would improve the economy by immediate and ongoing stimulus. Maintaining private healthcare insurance for the average family costs the equivalent of a second mortgage when you figure in monthly premiums and the high deductables. Also, employers bleeding out that mandate to provide for employees is crippling both their ability to compete and hire more employees. Many people with good and innovative ideas that would spur the economy take one look at starting a business and begin projectile vomiting at the very thought of just getting started.
It's not that people don't want to work. It's that there aren't enough jobs. So back to imagining the immediate implication of enacting UHC. Employers would feel immediate relief in not having to provide health insurance. With those monies freed up, employers could hire more people. The people who secure their own insurance or share-cost with employers would immediately see a second-mortgage-worth of cash freed up to use to consume. A thing that most people in the working classes do with free cash. Increased consumption means more jobs still. More jobs still means an increase in qualified home buyers. An increase in qualified home buyers means more sound mortgages, more home sales and an increase in the paper value of land that now has banks worried..
So this "trickle up" theory tied to UHC is not something we will see in 10 years or 30 years time. The effects will be almost instantaneous.
As with #1 there is only one entity objecting to UHC with a 'legitimate gripe'. That's the private healthcare moguls. Over 70% of the general population not only think that UHC is a good idea, they think it's a GREAT idea. UHC is not Obamacare. Obamacare is a botched compromise with a destruction-trigger mechanism installed under Obama's radar at it's inception by the insurance companies who "compromised" with him.
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As a final note, I see there is movement to abolish the cable weather channel. The solution to radical climate change apparently is to bury our heads in the sand.
Just as vigorous attempts to keep the present private healthcare insurance system in place are equally foolhardy.
Our nation is headed to self-destruct if these two gifts are not implimented and quickly.
Gift #2: Universal Healthcare.
Problems solved by Gift #1: pollution, energy shortage, fracking and coal mining pollution of last fresh water resources in the US, languishing economy from foreign energy and domestically-damaging energy policies. Wild and increasingly deadly/unpredictable severe weather & damage to infrastructure thereby.
Problems solved by Gift #2: Business bankruptcy. Personal bankruptcy. Stagnant economy. Jobless rate. Foreign debt. 100s of millions of vulnerable/stressed/sick people/"herd members" being perfect vectors for a new plague.
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#1 Discussion.
For a very long time now, decades if not longer, we have known how to use electricity to separate the hydrogen atoms from Oxygen in the simple water molecule. It's called electrolysis.
We have a device sold in kits today that takes water from a reservoir, like a gas tank, and uses a secondary alternator belt running off an engine that creates a current that separates hydrogen from oxygen. This liberates the hydrogen to be burned immediately in the combustion cycle of any engine. When it burns, it recombines with the oxygen to create water again in the form of steam vapor. This then can be recycled to produce more forward thrust.
There are no hydrogen storage tanks that can explode. The system is safe and on-demand. Water that has some particulates dissolved in it actually improves the efficiency of the system. Ergo, filtered seawater would run this country. And since sea levels have risen and we can soon kiss large sections of Florida goodbye as a result, using sea water is not going to be a foreseeable problem. None of our fracking-polluted fresh water reserves need be tapped for this boon to our energy problems.
The reason we haven't used this technology is because the fuel is free, the mechanism extraordinarily simple to construct and therefore, the oil companies would be slowly put out of business. That's it. That's the only reason we aren't using it. And by the way, hydrogen engines produce more power than gasoline ones.
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#2 Discussion
Universal Healthcare [UHC] is the magic bullet to our economic woes. If it was passed today in Congress or enacted by an emergency mandate from Executive order through the CDC, UHC would improve the economy by immediate and ongoing stimulus. Maintaining private healthcare insurance for the average family costs the equivalent of a second mortgage when you figure in monthly premiums and the high deductables. Also, employers bleeding out that mandate to provide for employees is crippling both their ability to compete and hire more employees. Many people with good and innovative ideas that would spur the economy take one look at starting a business and begin projectile vomiting at the very thought of just getting started.
It's not that people don't want to work. It's that there aren't enough jobs. So back to imagining the immediate implication of enacting UHC. Employers would feel immediate relief in not having to provide health insurance. With those monies freed up, employers could hire more people. The people who secure their own insurance or share-cost with employers would immediately see a second-mortgage-worth of cash freed up to use to consume. A thing that most people in the working classes do with free cash. Increased consumption means more jobs still. More jobs still means an increase in qualified home buyers. An increase in qualified home buyers means more sound mortgages, more home sales and an increase in the paper value of land that now has banks worried..
So this "trickle up" theory tied to UHC is not something we will see in 10 years or 30 years time. The effects will be almost instantaneous.
As with #1 there is only one entity objecting to UHC with a 'legitimate gripe'. That's the private healthcare moguls. Over 70% of the general population not only think that UHC is a good idea, they think it's a GREAT idea. UHC is not Obamacare. Obamacare is a botched compromise with a destruction-trigger mechanism installed under Obama's radar at it's inception by the insurance companies who "compromised" with him.
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As a final note, I see there is movement to abolish the cable weather channel. The solution to radical climate change apparently is to bury our heads in the sand.
Just as vigorous attempts to keep the present private healthcare insurance system in place are equally foolhardy.
Our nation is headed to self-destruct if these two gifts are not implimented and quickly.