Courtesy of the Guardian UK:
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.
The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.
The reactors, only a few metres in diameter, will be delivered on the back of a lorry to be buried underground. They must be refuelled every 7 to 10 years. Because the reactor is based on a 50-year-old design that has proved safe for students to use, few countries are expected to object to plants on their territory. An application to build the plants will be submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission next year.
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Of course, I can see Energy Secretary Gore, of the Obama Administration, disallowing the use of these units in the United States, until we have a “solution” to the waste storage issue. Of course, that requires that he, Like Pres-Elect Obama, ignores the $Billions that we tax payers have already spent on the Yucca Mountain facility. But Senator Palpatine Harry Reid, (D – Caesar’s Palace), doesn’t like Yucca Mountain, so it’s a no go.
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Yeah, that’s right, Newt for President.
Like Reagan in the late 70′s, Gingrich is the spirit of Conservatism is the early 21st century.
Even if he chooses not to run for the Presidential nomination, he must certainly be intimately involved in reforming and re-energizing the GOP and the Conservative movement.
Spend some time at his website. You’ll like it…
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-> It should be glaringly obvious at this point that – as distasteful as it is, and what it says about our society – a winning candidate for President needs to be telegenic. The more telegenic the candidate, the less substance they need to have to their platform. I think the new generation of GOP leaders has this covered, from Palin, Steele, Jindal (ok, not quite so much), Romney and others.
-> For the most part, the election returns confirm that solid conservatives are still winning elections, and the country is still a right of center country. But being a RINO (or Squishy Republican) is a recipe for roadkill. You can’t out-Liberal a Democrat. Again, the backbench seems to have it down.
-> There are 15 Democrat and 19 Republican Senate seats up for election in 2010. It is imperative that the GOP begin placing candidates today, and building a coherent POSITIVE message. Don’t even THINK of running against Obama; run against the excesses and mistakes of the left, with a message of positive steps, and, to appropriate the word: Change. You can be sure the Democrats are already calculating how they can get a filibuster proof majority in the Senate…
-> The GOP needs to bring some of the old hands from 1994 back, to help in crafting what should, in essence, be a new Contract with America. But this time, it should be somewhat more long term. The Contract was a wonderful idea, but once the line items were exhausted, the Republicans got fat, lazy, and overwhelmed by ability to spend money. A new Contract – call it a Compact for America, perhaps – should spell concrete legislative actions, and bind all signatories to pledges to fight any and all earmarks, change the tax code to a fair tax/flat tax/anything but the IRS, and other positive steps to make life better for America, while reducing government interference in our lives.
-> The GOP MUST learn to tap the Internet. There is a huge pool of Internet and New Media savvy people on the Conservative side. The GOP needs to bring these people into the fold, not to duplicate the lefts efforts, but to surpass them. It is obvious that the traditional media is nothing more than an organ of the Left at this point. Efforts need to be made to wage 21st century campaigns using 21st century media.
-> The GOP must immediately cease and desist from participating in any primary or caucus process that is open to non-party members. Participating in open primaries is what saddled us with McCain in the 2008 campaign. The GOP must regain control of it’s nominating process. Imagine, if Romney – the successful business man – had been the nominee when the Demcrat time bomb at Fannie Mae/Fredddie Mac exploded. It would have been an entirely different race.
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