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To: Sub-Driver

[. . . the fleet would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years. This is a fraction of the $250 billion that the world’s leading nations are considering spending each year to cut CO2 emissions.]

If it’s a choice between these “cloud ships” and Cap-and-Trade, I vote for the S.S. Rube Goldberg.


7 posted on 08/06/2009 5:10:16 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Saudi Arabia could fund this with an oil profit rounding error. And they could use the resulting freshwater.


8 posted on 08/06/2009 5:14:50 PM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

LoL!


23 posted on 08/06/2009 5:45:24 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The fleet would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years. This is a fraction of the $250 billion that the world’s leading nations are considering spending each year to cut CO2 emissions.

The American tax payers will pay for this wave and fountain show, so it doesn't matter what the cost is.

27 posted on 08/06/2009 5:51:14 PM PDT by dragnet2
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