Capping Cap & Trade with Helium-3

Credit:
Michael Norbury
http://bringhomethepoliticians.com

Seen through the eyes of a Kung Fu Master (which I am not) the approach to opposing “Cap & Tax” is very flawed.

The Cap & Trade legislation bound for the Senate is the result of decades of yellow journalism, movies, tv, radio, and video games.  This is a behemoth amount of momentum that, even if blocked now, will resurface again and again.

So, the best strategy is not to stand in the way of this propoganda machine, but to use this same environmental tsunami to expose it’s false masters.

Allow me to digress for a moment to give you the insight into the “other side” you’ll need to finally expose this myth.  Prepare to roll your eyes, but I assure you it’s worth it to read on to the end.

I am a 29 year old vegetarian, former hemp clothing store owning, San Francisco Bay Area Native now living in NC.

I was in the “hemp game” (not to be confused with marijuana which is the narcotic form of the plant) from 2002-2006.

I managed to convince my parents that the college and graduate school money set aside would be better spent on a business since the “School of Hard Knocks” is as good as a college education.

The irony of hearing pot jokes left and right for the next four years is that I had given up such things because I was very serious about being both successful and advancing the cause of industrial hemp.

And when I say serious, I mean I did tons of research, went out of my way to get a hold of such exotic items as hemp plastic, hemp concrete, and even made the 8′ x 3′ store sign out of hemp particle board.

To summarize, I saw the green wave coming, and being a good little capitalist tried to ride the wave, but I was too early and by the time it showed up I was too “burned out” by the reality of GREEN.

Saying that I changed my views along the way isn’t accurate.  It’s better said that vague assumptions had been replaced with solid education over time.

There isn’t enough time between now and the Senate vote for masses of people and politicians to have all those little epiphanies necessary to stop this legislation.

So, let me tell you about the “nail in the coffin” news that did far more to break me from the green slumber than the realization that hemp isn’t the strongest natural fiber in the world (it’s flax), and so on.

It’s called Helium-3 and you owe it to yourself to watch AT LEAST the first minute and a half of the video link below.

Helium-3 is found in abundance on all orbiting bodies that don’t contain an atmosphere such as the moon.

One metric ton of this stuff can power New York City for one year (25 tons for the entire US annually).  The “Kung Fu” aspect of it is that it produces absoluty NO CARBON EMISSIONS meaning that even if carbon were a threat to the climate, this fuel source solves for their entire argument for CAP & TAX.

“On the Moon?  We don’t have time for Sci-Fi!”  The reality is just the opposite because the US Taxpayer has been footing the bill to the tune of BILLION$ on Helium-3 research for over a decade.

NASA’s current ORION Project which goes back to the moon in a few years has Helium-3 as a fundamental mission objective.

You’d also be surprised to know that we have a successful test reactor in Madison, WI and that former astronaut and former New Mexico Senator (R) Harrison Schmidt is a lead proponent (watch the video and you’ll learn a whole lot more).

This means we’ll have everything setup to solve our energy/climate issues right around the same time Cap & Tax is supposed to finally yield improvements to our climate after years of wreckless taxation.

So, instead of phoning/emailing your Senator telling them to “Vote NO! Because we can’t afford it!!!”, you can now tell them “Vote NO!  Because we can’t afford it AND we already have a solution called Helium-3 and if you haven’t heard of it you better look it up!!!”

The same’ol arguments that those opposed to CAP & TAX are only worried about their pocket books and not their children’s future goes right out the door when Helium-3 is brought into the picture.

Documentary, Astronomy, Energy – “Moon for Sale”

Helium-3 articles:

“Mining The Moon” – Popular Mechanics (December 2006)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/1283056.html

“Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel” – Wired Magazine (October 2004)
http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2006/12/72276

“Mining the Moon” – technologyreview.com (published by MIT Review – August 07)
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19296/

“Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source” – Space.com (June 2000)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

“Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track” – Popular Mechanics (June 2009)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4322647.html?page=2

“NASA – Why Go Back to the Moon?” -nasa.gov (January 2008)
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/series/moon/why_go_back.html

“Is ‘MOON’s’ sci-fi vision of lunar helium 3 mining based in reality?” – Scientific American (June 2009)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=is-moons-sci-fi-vision-of-lunar-hel-2009-06-12

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