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You want to juice the economy? How about a $10T spend over 10 years building 500 MW gen IV reactors. You will replace almost all fossil power gen with clean nuclear, with a final price of around $0.04 per kWh.
A standard nuclear design used everywhere, like France.
We can convert methane to methanol for use as a motor fuel, far cheaper than Ethanol. Gasoline and higher hydrocarbons will be phased out of use as a fuel, and used as chemical feed stock for plastics, pharmaceutical, etc.. Coal use will plummet to just industrial uses (steel). CO2 emissions cut in half to start.
Wind and solar cannot provide the worldwide power we need. Fusion still doesn't work. Once we get fusion sorted out, we need to focus on the final energy technology: matter anialation.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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