Big Problems Big Ideas

Nuclear Waste Solid waste from nuclear plants needs permanent disposal, especially high level waste. The industry is spending billions (or they were) creating deep mines in salt deposits to store this waste which will continue to be radioactive for over ten thousand years. Pretty hard to secure something for that far into the future. My solution? Elon Musk. Encapsulate the waste, put it on a rocket and boost it into space with an orbit that will send it into the sun. The billions spent on storage could be spent, instead, on rocket booster technology and large volume lifting bodies. Or the space elevator. https://www.amazon.com/Jubals-Gold-Rabb-Marcellus-ebook/dp/B00K2763PW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1542196239&sr=8-4&keywords=rabb+marcellus

Russian Billionaires Why don’t Russian billionaires spend their money on the needs of the Russian people, instead of laundering it into western banks? Surely there are poor people in Russia who could use a hand. An orphanage or a rural community on hard times. A bridge needed or a farm tractor somewhere. I’m not an authority on Russian poverty, but how many jets, yachts and houses does it take to satisfy these guys? Some of them can’t possible spend all that they have, ever. Putin, Deripaska, and others need to stop and consider how they can use their fortunes to help their country, not leave it behind. Help for the here and now. Okay you guys, you have a choice. Tyranny and greed verses kindness and charity. Was Stalin a good example in Russian history? Your time on this earth will also pass. How do you want to be remembered? https://www.amazon.com/Without-Warning-Rabb-Marcellus-ebook/dp/B00B8L2TH2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1542196239&sr=8-3&keywords=rabb+marcellus

Home Solar Systems Instead of spending two billion on a new power plant, utilities should spend that money on home solar systems wholly owned, operated and maintained by the utility. Installed on local roof tops. The utility would own and maintain not only the solar system but the roofing material beneath it. The homeowners’ obligation is to provide the roofing space and agree to purchase the power for a specified duration. The system I imagine would include the roofing, solar panels, inverter, battery bank, control and metering system, and interconnecting wiring, so that reserve capacity would be available even on rainy days. Details as to hail damage and quality of power delivery, as well as insurance would need to be in the contract. Two billion in home solar systems spread out over a large area would be a lot less risky than a coal or nuclear power plant, and if they are all linked together they could deliver their excess power on demand. This could be an alternate and environm

Ocean Cities The streets of Miami, for example, are already flooding due to global warming. They are spending millions on elevating streets and ocean walls to keep the water out. My idea is to take a lesson from Venice Italy, only with modern engineering. Spend those millions, instead, on modifying the infrastructure and buildings to accept the ocean as it rises. Expand the city out onto the continental shelf, with vast underwater housing and surface areas fit for cultivation and green areas. Miami could be the first “Ocean City” built to accommodate and embrace the sea and all of its treasures. I realize this city would have to resist ever larger and more destructive hurricanes, but this is an engineering problem solvable with innovative approaches to accommodate wind and water. Even use them as energy sources. I see a Miami of tall glass buildings connected by broad waterways and canals growing eastward with new structures that allow residents to live under or above the surface.

Ocean Plastic Collection Coastal countries such as Japan, the US, England and others, need to pay fisherman to collect ocean plastic. It seems to me that all you need is a boat, a net, and an incentive. Make it just as lucrative to catch ocean plastic as it is to catch fish. Find way to ensure the plastic actually came from the ocean, such as analysis of entrained organisms or saltwater.   https://www.amazon.com/Mom-can-drive-Robyn-Marcellus-ebook/dp/B00DR0SM1E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542196328&sr=8-1&keywords=robyn+marcellus

Legalization of Drugs If you are addicted to alcohol, then you are free to overdose on this drug, at the expense of your family and friends who are poised to mitigate or not. If you are addicted to marijuana, then you should be free to overdose on this drug, at the expense of your family and friends who are poised to mitigate or not. If you are addicted to heroin or cocaine, then you should be free to overdose on this drug, at the expense of your family and friends who are poised to mitigate or not. I realize this is brutal, but so is our present situation where drug gangs are so rich from drug money that they can take over whole governments and force populations of people to flee their oppression. It seems to me that if this condition persists, our civilization will become unstable and incapable of coping with any other crisis such as rising sea levels and famine. It is a shame it has come to this, but everything else has been tried and has failed. Eventually, individuals who are

Border Wall I don’t believe a border wall will resolve the problem of immigration from Mexico and points south. My ideas are as follows: 1. Pass immigration reform laws to AGGRESSIVELY allow these immigrants into the country after thorough vetting. 2. Resolve the reason why these people fear for their lives. If Honduras, For example, is being run by lawless gangs that force large populations to our border then this has become OUR problem. Gangs take over governments in South America because they have billions in drug money to finance their endeavors. Legalize marijuana and other drugs to remove the cash flow to the gangs, just like what happened after Prohibition was repealed. 3. Send our military to these countries to work with, or remove from power, gang run governments, similar to the Grenada invasion. Clean out the cartels with overwhelming military force! Set up a new government and leave. No nation building please! 4. If these countries once more become our problem, t