The Jackuul Blog

I have a small idea that would absolutely reduce pollution into the atmosphere permanently from cars, trains, buses, and power plants. My dream of a totally electric future powered by resources that are easily and cheaply available, a transition away from them once they begin to become scarce – and investing in the exact opposite technique – along with some windmills. I am speaking of the power in the Atom of course. Before I discuss that, I will first set about my proposal for this wonderful future of mine.

Imagine you get in your car, you turn the ignition, and the warm hum of the motor sparks to life – using a pure ethanol mixture that is less than a dollar a gallon. Then, you go to the freeway, and you take your hands off the wheel. The vehicles non-Microsoft computer navigates you along the highway. The only thing is – your vehicle is no longer a part of your direct control since it is now on tracks and linked into the highway’s decentralized computer system – and is able to anticipate anything in advance. You are now riding on rails and approximately 200 miles an hour, your predestined course you plot out is being carried out perfectly. Switches every three hundred yards make sure you are going where you need to while the computer adjusts speeds according to traffic and safety regulations – in congestion it will slow all vehicles down to 60 miles an hour for safe passing and safe lane changes. However not everyone will be going slow – for you see there will be an express lane or two at the far left lanes.

How are these speeds possible? The tracks are electrified. That’s how. Massive amounts of raw AC current using Tesla’s almighty contribution to science glides you along at speeds never before imaginable on a highways system without a tragic car accident or a police beating. You travel in what used to take 3 hours in under an hour. You can go across the desert from Texas to California on the expressways at over 350 miles per hour. Air travel is actually more expensive now – and cars are more dominant. How is all this energy affordable? Simple my dear Watson. Massive nuclear facilities brought online in a “safe zone” where only the government has access. Not ten, not fifty, over a thousand nuclear reactors in a silo-like fashion going as deep as three hundred feet into the ground in a quarantined area.

Impossible! How can that be afforded! Why – That would cost billions if not trillions! You’re absolutely right, it would cost trillions. However – without there being a war constantly draining money (since I would be Dictator of Earth) the money that went to war would go to this. The entire world’s power grid would be overhauled, and so would the entire world’s roadways. All the poor, the needy, the people seeking work would have a task that will take a billion humans to complete! Everyone will be employed and fed – and I will use my standing armies to force it. Bankruptcy isn’t an option – I control the world’s economy at this stage, and declare things as so. With constant expansion using recycled materials and raw materials business would boom, worldwide. Technology would provide the jobs and education everyone seeks.

I will share more in ‘An Electric Future Part II’ (and when this is finished I shall make it a page!)