Tomorrow, February 13, the White House will be hosting an "Open For Questions" session, in which officials answer questions from the public. As part of this, I will be conducting a live-streamed panel with Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Policy.
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I hope a lot scientist\engineers across the country read this request and ask a lot of questions?
I suspect the White House is looking for the popular questions and will then manage will popular answers.
I like to deal with the problem with real science\engineering questions and real world solutions!
Please someone ask about The Thorium Molten Salt Reactor. Seems like a good nuclear energy option with far less environmental risks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI
Is it really necessary to wait 50 years for a nuclear fusion technology that uses abundant Deuterium separated from seawater as fuel and produces only non-radioactive helium as nuclear waste?
Is there a practical fusion technology available today to fully power the planet longer than the earth has existed or the sun will burn?
http://home.comcast.net/~aeropharoh/site/?/blog/view/4/&PHPSESSID=77bf8dc1785e38456870bb0d6011ebe3
What advantage to the American economy and to protection of world climate would come from introducing a practical commercial form of D-D fusion five decades earlier than is currently anticipated from the slow commercialization of current tokamak and laser fusion experiments?
Did Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs produce a practical form of Deuterium-Deuterium fusion called PACER fusion in the mid-1970s that produces net energy or more energy out of the fusion power plant than the energy required to run the fusion power plant?
Could that PACER fusion technology be built today and require no physics or engineering breakthroughs to construct?
(http://home.comcast.net/~aeropharoh/Moir_UCRL_98468_PACER_Revisited.pdf)?
1. President Obama emphasized the importance of creating a self-efficent America by creating our own energy. How does the administration plan to implement this idea?
2. How does the administration plan to get rid of the nuclear waste by the nuclear reactors stored on site, to avoid future eviromental hazards?
3. Will the administration emphasize alternative nuclear technologies, such as The Thorium Molten Salt Reactors, to replace/improve old nuclear facilities?
4. Will the administration try emphasize alternative nuclear technologies with other nations wanting to gain nuclear energy, such that a situation like Iran will be obsolete?
5. President Obama stated the goal to cut the energy waste in half in the next twenty year, and give the states with the best ideas federal support. Does the administration currently have any guidelines for this goal?
Hopefully Popsci sees these questions.
The questions will be mostly of a scientific and engineering nature. The answers will be diplomatic obfuscations. When it is all over and done with, we will be no wiser than now.
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Since much of our farm crops go into fueling our cars, will the future plans for energy independence demand more or less crops to be converted to fuel?
If it is more, how do we compensate for less food being produced?
If it is less, how do we compensate for the lose in revenue for framers?
Or is their an ideal third option, balance between fuel and food or some other factor I'm not seeing?
Whaling has been opposed by the United States government for decades. However, this foreign policy which has remained consistent across party lines is currently being undermined by Japan, Iceland, and Norway. These countries purposely defy the decisions of the International Whaling Commission and continue to kill endangered and protected whales.
The Pelly Amendment to the Fisherman's Protective Act was enacted in 1971 to conserve Atlantic salmon. The Pelly Amendment grants the President discretion to prohibit the importation of fish or fish products originating in a country that is diminishing the effectiveness of an international fishery conservation program. The Packwood-Magnuson Amendment of 1979, an amendment to the Fishery Conservation and Management Act (FCMA), allows the President to impose trade sanctions pursuant to the Pelly Amendment if a country is diminishing the effectiveness of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
Ronald Reagan enacted economic sanctions against Japan for whaling in 1988. However, the Obama administration has only offered a 'diplomatic' response to Iceland.
Right now, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a case brought by the same group responsible for the whaling Reagan condemned in 1988. The poachers are literally using U.S. courts to undermine U.S. foreign policy by seeking an injunction against protesters.
And in a recent interview the Icelander responsible for destroying hundreds of endangered fin whales has announced he will literally use whale oil to fuel the ships for killing more endangered whales (also to export mass produced canned whale meat to Japan).
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was signed in the USA in 1946. The U.S. government has opposed whaling and promoted conservation of whales for decades -- including playing an influential role in the establishment of a moratorium on commercial whaling (which Iceland, Norway, and Japan defy).
Why won't the Obama administration at least enforce existing U.S. laws and take a more aggressive stand against commercial whaling?
Please ask about thorium molten salt reactors.
@N Parcel: This site lays out some of the facts on that type reactor... thoriummsr.com
Seems that these should be replacing the nuclear reactors right and left.
You might want to check out Dr. Randell Mills and his research.
o The forces of nature have been united.
o A fifth force has been discovered.
o A new "non polluting energy source" has been developed and is producing power from seven power plants now in operation.
All a result from Dr. Randell Mills' research of the true nature of the orbiting electron.
Seems like quantum mechanics may become obsolete. Dr. Mills' integration of forces uses only Maxwell's equations, Newton's "laws of motion" and Einstein's relativity to explain everything from the micro to the macro.
Check out his theorys: blacklightpower.com