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, the most frightful and devastating development of mankind that has been ignored since the nineteen seventies. 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 with a click. The vehicles non-Microsoft computer navigates you along the highway by using the highway’s own computer systems. 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 because the highway can use predictive technologies currently available, and by far more advanced in the future. You are now riding on rails and approximately 200 miles an hour, your predestined course you plot out is being carried out perfectly, internet is carried over the rail system and you can if you wanted to - check your emails. 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 let’s say 60 miles an hour for safe passing and safe lane changes should it be that cluttered. However not everyone will be going slowly - for you see there will be an express lane or two at the far left lanes - allowing for amazing speeds to be accomplished and for people to cross country in less than a day.

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 in alternating currents and alternating motors glides you along at speeds never before imaginable on a highways system without a tragic car accident or a police beating every few days. In fact the traffic laws will be enforced by the computers, rendering high speed highway chases a ting of the past. Any car that the police wish to stop will stop regardless of the drivers input. You travel in what used to take 4 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 ten thousand nuclear reactors in a silo-like fashion going as deep as three hundred feet into the ground in a quarantined area. Nuclear waste goes to another facility built to handle over six hundred years worth, above the water table and in a way that will suppress any kind of leakages.

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 excellent project and many others. 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.