If you want to rebuild America through re-powering it, which is one of my top concerns, the single most effective thing to do is educate people about Type IV nuclear reactors, or pebble bed reactors which do not have intrinsic safety concerns and takes care of waste issues while providing the cheapest and cleanest energy to date.

I know that is a controversial thought- but after you know about a pebble bed reactor think of all the resources needed to build solar and wind, not only are the $ costs higher but more damage is caused to the environment in the production of such products not to mention their power densities take up considerably more space then a reactor.  Learning of a pebble bed reactor should inform you of how safe and green it is. 

The cheap price would infuse every single economy in the united states- people like to talk about saving power but that does not help at all actually, forget that 40% of the total energy use is electricity and that 20% of that is residential and if everyone did a really good job it would not even equal a 1% difference- and that actually can hurt our economy, we really need to use more energy, but it must be clean and cheaper.

Here is how industry develops- we have a paper thin economy  that relies on speculation to make money, we are neutered of our ability to operate refineries and factories at satisfactory levels.  It is no surprise shortly after we made it next to impossible to build a new nuclear plant our steel industry dried up, as such our auto is on the ropes, it is not an issues that is popularized because it is out of their control.  We have no shortage of iron and carbon- we cannot afford to process it, at best we scrape along recycling to conserve energy.  Titanium is more abundant in the united states then iron- so why is everything that is made of steel not titanium, it requires ALOT more electricity.  If nobody is producing raw materials locally- then locally people are not going to be processing them into goods, without those goods our financial sector- the paper sector is on the ropes.   Is it a surprise that France is the 3rd largest producer of automobiles when they get over 70% of their energy cheaply from nuclear.   Or how about China and Mexico where air laws allow for cheaper energy.  We can have cheap energy and we can put it to damn good use by completely reinforcing every sector of business- I can name educational institutes that pay millions of dollars per year in just electrical bills- and they are warranted bills.  Nuclear could easily cut that in half, for everyone.  Fossil fuel prices would drop as more processes can be cheaply done with electricity.   For example a hydrogen economy- 40% of the electricity is "wasted" in electrolysis in the production of hydrogen, so it is not very cost effective to warrant heavy development.    So lets see if electricity is cheap enough we can do a significant advance to world with two epochs- age of titanium and hydrogen.  All the goods you buy- all the utilities you pay for, every component or mineral that is harvested and refined directly depends on the price of energy...  It is no wonder we are lacking jobs and our financial institutes are crashing and reforming.

I realise some people would not be happy with that, I would guess oil companies would have a problem with that so as much as it pains me to say it current coal and oil electrical production facilities should essentially go offline and get paid for it, the workers should be paid and sure the little guy is being helped in finding BETTER jobs. (maybe at say a nuclear power plant or a hydrogen production plant, other types of mining and harvesting will heavily be reinforced by the availability of economically flourishing production of goods.


So lets recap all the things that a pebble bed reactor can provide by being the cheapest, cleanest, highest energy density (space used is least), and hands down safest energy source. (I can very heavily debate that last statement but it is lengthy and slightly off topic)

1.(CHEAPEST) Harvesting of raw materials
2.(CHEAPEST) Refined materials
3.(CHEAPEST) Processing refined materials into goods
4.(CHEAPEST) Financial and Educational institutes
5.(CHEAPEST) Residential for not just utilities but tax and cost to build them.
6.(FEASIBLE) Hydrogen powered cars and titanium that is cheaper then steel (I can prove that too)   (think how much we would save on maintenance of bridges alone if they where made of titanium (trillions of dollars very quickly)  And with that money saved you can be sure it will be spent on even bigger projects.
7. A huge supply of high level jobs in every field, if factories run cheaper they only get bigger- and they need people designing and maintenance of their machinery.  Less people folding boxes and more people making robots to fold boxes.    I really cannot even begin to address the increase in productivity across the boards it would enable.   I'll be honest I voted for the other guy- cause nuclear was the single most key issue to me, it IS the root of almost all of our problems but it is buried deep and out of ALMOST everyone control...
- by Richard Hollman