The financial crisis is upon us, time for governments to invest, invest wisely please

Now that the financial crisis is upon us it seems to be time for government investments to revive the economy. I don't believe government should put it's finger in too many things, but this is one of these times where it is justified. So where should they invest in?

It really doesn't seem to matter all that much in what the government invests as far as the effect to revive the economy goes. So let's put it in research and in particular into new sources of energy. And I don't mean the bio-diesels and the like! Let's be more bold and go for real innovation. The nuclear fusion route is one option to be explored. I would also encourage research in areas like:

• Energy generation in space
• Energy storage
• Space to Earth energy transport

Ultimately EVERYTHING that limits us comes down to energy supply. Any material resource can be regenerated from waste provided energy is not an issue. Water for example, we have oceans full of it, but it has lots of salt and maybe some organic impurities. Given enough energy, there is no problem at all turning this into drinking water or even irrigation water. Sure, you need to do the investments as well, but if energy is not an issue, much becomes possible.

Whoah! Are the Scientologists our green xenocs???

Just saw the anonymous declaration of war against Scientology, I couldn't be happier. After watching the declaration video on youtube and the Tom Cruise Scientology propaganda video that was leaked to the internet I went and read some info about Scientology. It looks like they are the exact fit for the green xenoc I suspect to be messing with our minds to bring the technological development of this planet to a crawl. I currently have no idea how to help anonymous, but if I find a way, I will and I would strongly encourage anybody with a mind that is still uncorrupted to do the same. Even if it is unlikely that Scientology is that green xenoc, their stuff is creepy enough to unite and get rid of it!

One year later ..

Not good to get people reading this I guess, waiting 1 year between blog entries.
Did anything new jump out to support the green deception theory? Not really, things keep going leisurely at their previous pace, although, new IPCC reports have been thrust upon us and Al Gore won the nobel prize, all because we are producing to much CO2. So, what do we need to do? We all need to start reducing how much energy we use??? That is the surest way to go into stagnation. Nothing against more efficient use of energy, but reducing energy consumption by not travelling abroad, by putting on extra clothes to heat your house less??? Not exactly what I would call progress.
A positive point is that the economics we have built around the CO2 story are producing some perverse effects. The main one being that land previously used to grow food is now being converted to grow sugar cane to make alcohol as energy souurce or oil producing plants to produce bio diesel. We haven't degenerated completely, most people know this is not the way to go.

Whether it is the greenhouse effect or the fact that oil reserves are limited, let's get some research going to develop a real alternative energy. Assuming we can find enough resources on earth or in the neighbourhood, fusion seems like a viable option. We are working on it, but shouldn't we invest more and get this working faster?
The other source is of course solar energy, but just a few solar panels on your roof may not be enough. Let's make some reasonable calculations on the energy needed per person and to be on the safe side, assume we'll all be consuming twice as much energy as the most most energy consuming nation today. Also allow for a doubling of the world population. Where does that get us in terms of required energy production? Can it be extracted from solar energy without covering half of the earth with solar panels? If not, let's put those things in orbit or beyond and research not only how to do that, but also how to transport the energy back to earth. As efficiently as possible, but keep in mind feasbility.
Hopefully I don't go dormant for another year now ...