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Bill Gates buys big chunk of land in Arizona to build 'smart city'
12News ^ | 10Nov17 | Bianca Buono

Posted on 11/12/2017 7:25:28 PM PST by qaz123

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To: Big Red Badger

If they are conservatives they are welcome, but the influx of liberals have turned this once blood red state into a purplish red.


21 posted on 11/12/2017 7:58:06 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: qaz123

Well the truck stop is already there. That’s something.

I


22 posted on 11/12/2017 8:00:59 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: qaz123

Got to admit...You did an excellent job of covering everything!


23 posted on 11/12/2017 8:01:40 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: qaz123

Related post from earlier:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3604138/posts


24 posted on 11/12/2017 8:03:29 PM PST by upchuck (Justice should be blind and not brain-dead. ~ Daniel John Sobieski . Hello Jeff Sessions...)
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To: TTFlyer

already is a westworld in AZ


25 posted on 11/12/2017 8:07:13 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: McGavin999

No problem with That,
Just an old guy and an ugly Dog!


26 posted on 11/12/2017 8:07:19 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: McGavin999

Bill Gates, just doing his party to turn another state blue


27 posted on 11/12/2017 8:08:12 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: qaz123

Have to complete the flip of Arizona from red to blue.

25,000 Seattloids ought to do it.


28 posted on 11/12/2017 8:08:54 PM PST by hattend
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To: Oldexpat

That’s a joke. most developers count on the same water for their “100 year plan”


29 posted on 11/12/2017 8:09:57 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Oldexpat
Water is a big issue. They need a 100 year plan to develope it. That isn’t easy in the desert.


Water usage is a major developmental issue for growing large cities in the Third World.

Perhaps a minimal water consumption footprint is and the development of technology to achieve this is a major part of Gate's plan.

It would be if I were him.

The site purchased by Gates is pretty much laying on top of the Central Arizona Project canal so access to huge quantities of water is assured and it has direct freeway access to LA, Las Vegas and San Diego to the west and multiple access routes to the East bound I-10.

Somebody did a lot of thinking to choose this site. My gut is that Gates will pull it off and put the US economy at the forefront of developing the technology and developmental model and economic pathway to allow the Third World to develop it's way to First World economic status without the massive ecological and Health/Welfare problems we see in China and India. .

Risk is limited because CAP was only Phase I on Barry Goldwater's master plan to extend the CAP canal network to the Pacific Ocean and supply Arizona and the entire South West with unlimited quantities of desalinated sea water from the Pacific Ocean.

Much of the necessary infrastructure was set aside for this eventuality 40 years ago.

Recent advancements in desalination technology and recovery of Uranium from sea water for power plants make this technologically feasible in large scale

30 posted on 11/12/2017 8:12:52 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: qaz123

“...smart city...”

And then, one day there will be a total gridlock on the whole town, and all the phones will display the message on a blue screen: GENERAL CITY FAULT.

The city will have to shut down completely and restart, taking about two weeks.


31 posted on 11/12/2017 8:13:17 PM PST by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
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Could be a redux of Tony Hsieh’s Zapponian Utopia:

Vegas Knows What to Do With a High Roller

32 posted on 11/12/2017 8:40:07 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: qaz123

This city will be the opposite of smart.


33 posted on 11/12/2017 8:43:30 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Big Red Badger

They are trying to turn Az blue. They better widen I-10. The traffic is getting pretty bad at 0400 heading to work at Palo Verde.


34 posted on 11/12/2017 8:46:06 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: rdcbn
Water is a big issue. They need a 100 year plan to develope it. That isn’t easy in the desert.


Water usage is a major developmental issue for growing large cities in the Third World.

Perhaps a minimal water consumption footprint and the development of technology to achieve this along with clean, inexpensive sources of power is a major part of Gate's plan.

It would be if I were him.

The site purchased by Gates is pretty much laying on top of the Central Arizona Project canal so access to huge quantities of water is assured and it has direct freeway access to LA, Las Vegas and San Diego to the west and multiple access routes to the East bound I-10.

Somebody did a lot of thinking to choose this site.

The site is only a few miles from the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station also perfect for the application of distributed solar power for harvesting of incidental, supplemental solar energy.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station has infrastructure for at least one additional new nuclear reactor to expand capacity

My gut is that Gates will pull it off and put the US economy at the forefront of developing the technology, developmental model, infrastructure and economic pathway to allow the Third World to develop it's way to First World economic status without the massive ecological and Health/Welfare problems we see in China and India. .

Risk is limited because CAP was only Phase I on Barry Goldwater's master plan to extend the CAP canal network to the Pacific Ocean and supply Arizona and the entire South West with unlimited quantities of desalinated sea water from the Pacific Ocean.

Much of the necessary infrastructure for the Phase II was set aside for this eventuality 40 years ago.

Recent advancements in desalination technology and recovery of Uranium from sea water for power plants make this technologically feasible in large scale

35 posted on 11/12/2017 8:51:00 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: qaz123

Okay mischief makers - if some of us bought land adjacent to this site, what would be the best thing to put there to piss off our future neighbors ... or perhaps to motivate Gates to pay double the going rate to buy that too?

Maybe something like a ginormous eye sore of a wind farm right between his site and the areas best views? Any other ideas?


36 posted on 11/12/2017 9:31:02 PM PST by zencycler
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To: qaz123
Make sure power can be cut off in the middle of summer.

And water, plenty of that where they invaded from.

37 posted on 11/12/2017 9:38:28 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Mariner

Recycled sewage


38 posted on 11/12/2017 9:43:14 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Repeal & replace Obamacare, tax reform, fix infrastructure, fixin military, Israel, kill enemies)
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To: zencycler

A thousand yard rifle range, allowing full auto weapons.


39 posted on 11/12/2017 9:46:47 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

There you go, right on Target


40 posted on 11/12/2017 9:56:45 PM PST by easternsky
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