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RE: Why not manufacture them in Detroit, Flint and elsewhere in
I want to try and stay focused on the material presented, however you outline the symptoms of the disease quite well.
As far as your specific comment I selected: One reason might be that for a couple decades we have systematically lost our position of educating student to read write and perform math, our economic competitors are graduating engineers and scientists at orders of magnitude higher levels that we are. Secondarily to that the ability to think critically is more or less a lost art amongst our citizens, because we eat breath think and vote based on propaganda and popularity polls.
Another factor to consider is our US manufacturing base is more or less left the country, our economy is based on retail trade and prisons and government.
If you do want to address the material I offered, feel free analyze the projected energy requirement to keep the grid stable 10 years from now (with no changes), the amount of energy we can save by any methods I outline above, the amount of additional energy load increases we can expect due to climate change, how many windmills per square mile are needed to provide how many megawatts, how many aging fossil fuel planes we can expect to come off line due to old age in the coming 10 or 20 years? How many of nuclear plants will also come off line due to old age in the next 10 or 20 years?
Feel free to provide a technical analysis for lead time to replace these aging generating assets.
Keep in mind that China right now is bringing on one new fossil fuel power plant per week every week, and ordering as many now state of the art nuclear plants as can be lined up, and securing long term supplier contracts for oil form our largest oil trading partners.
Instead of sounding like someone's brochure, please help me sort out the technical material so we can identify logically sound solutions, and not just sound like a bunch of hot air.