Brownback on Innovation and Energy

[RepealIMBRA]

Senator Brownwack is UNFIT to hold any office. He claims to be a lawyer. He took an oath to defend the Constitution, yet he is rsponsible for the DRACONIAN, blatantly UNCONSTITUTIONAL 'Intl Romance Regulation Act'. Now it's a felony for ALL American citizens to communicate, write friendship letters, or even say 'Hello' to foreigners under Brownback's despicable legislation.

[TheRussianTiger]

10 to 15 years...thats to late!!! thats after your presidency.

you are basically saying, I won't do anything about energy and the environment and just follow Bush's lead, doing NOTHING AT ALL and letting the planet rot!!!!!!!!!

[JKPorter01]

He has the right ideas but their is so much more that we can use for energy - wind 'farms' solar heat and power and tons more! All so better cars controlled on our freeways and so much more! We have a lot of the parts now all we need is a way to hook it all up!

[Notsplane]

Ron Paul will reduce air pollution by not taxing the internet. (he is against taxing the internet) That will encourage online shopping and discourage driving to the store to buy something.

Ron Paul will use private property to reduce water and land pollution.

[cryora]

How about human powered energy? Where the sweat and labor of humans help power our machines. I'm just being imaginative.

[apromoterofgod]

lol

[megadeth22885]

nuclear isnt the answer, hydrogen is

[iloveihop2008]

Wow Senator Brownback I am very impressed

[E2theBizzle]

I'm all for using alternative sources of energy to alleviate our dependence on foreign oil, but wouldn't it be possible for a national dependence on corn and vegetable oil to increase the cost of related food products world wide?

[quiIl]

Corn and vegetable products are not the solution anyway. Burning ethanol produces greenhouse gasses just like burning gasoline does. The only realistic solution to our problems is nuclear power.

[apromoterofgod]

I thought about this country using up all the coal and those before we have to switch.

[quiIl]

Except I think the planet would be dead by the time we finished mining all the coal in it. We need to switch over to nuclear power as soon as possible.

[LongingExtermination]

Nuclear power would only be feasible as a stepping stone to another form of fuel. If all of north america switched to nuclear power there would only be enough uranium left in the world to last around 15 years!

[quiIl]

I'd like to know where you got that; it seems far-fetched to me. I'm pretty sure we have enough uranium left to last us a million years.

[LongingExtermination]

I recently attended a talk by a british nuclear physicist who happens to have suddenly discovered the wonders of nature, and has now set himself on a crusade to get britain "green."

[LongingExtermination]

Just in the process of trying to find his published discoveries on the net, will post a link when I do..but the general consensus of it is that yes there is a lot of uranium available, but most of it has depleted to a point where it would cost significantly more to refine the energy from it than the public would be willing to pay..or even be able to afford to pay.

[quiIl]

Reactor-grade uranium isn't found in nature. Uranium has to be enriched artififially first. So maybe that's what someone meant by saying that we'd run out of uranium in 15 years.

I don't think the process is that difficult, though. We've been doing it for almost 100 years now, and technology has only made it easier.

[AmericanWayne]

Get it right. It's nu-kya-ler, not nu-clee-er. Don't you listen to our hallowed president?

[tutwabee]

If growing hemp was not outlawed in the U.S. it could solve our dependence on foreign oil. Sadly this will never happen.

[utubeusername7734]

great...instead of importing corn from overseas, figure a cheap way to extract and utilize the trillion or so barrels under the rocky mountains.

[Rekondite]

Don't make it a big deal Hyperion...There is a-lot of development to do into the theory that the US is interested in. We would have a better chance developing an Anti-Matter propulsion system vs a Hyperdrive.

[BC305Hyperion]

what about the USAF building a hyperdrive behind our government's backs? It would get us to Mars in 3 hours and Proxima Centauri in 80 days. That sounds like an efficient method of space travel. It's being researched at Area 51 along with nanotechnology, energy weapons(phasers), and Daedalus class Battlecruisers(starships).

[TakielWestman]

Sounds good. Americans have been oilholics for far too long. Its time we join Oilholcis Anonymous.

[Cuning66]

Dude every person running for president has made these promises. Thats how they get elected. No president lives up to all their promises.

[TakielWestman]

Hench the "Sounds good."

[Cuning66]

Exactly.