Posted on 12/08/2011 11:43:54 PM PST by Fred
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrichs hobby, he says, is studying dinosaurs and other fossils. He openly mourned the death of Knut the polar bear.Gingrich believes it is a false dichotomy to group policies according to whether they deal with the countrys economic problems or protect the environment. Instead, he thinks government can incentivize the production of new energy technologies, which would consequently help the environment and the economy by making the country less dependent on foreign oil.
And he is not short on ideas of how to do it. One generations science fiction is the next generations practical reality, wrote Gingrich in Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, a book he co-authored in 2008 with Vince Haley.
Heres a sampling of some of Gingrichs more interesting environmental ideas:
1) Build a large array of mirrors [that] could affect the earths climate, to extend farmers growing season. He outlined this proposal in his book A Contract with the Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I’d rather they just stay inside the box. I’m not interested in Newt conservative ideas to fix liberal problems nor his liberal ideas to fix conservative problems.
We spend too much money. We can’t afford dancing mirrors.
Right. At one time someone was sitting around saying “What if we could go to the Moon?” and another someone was sitting there saying “That’s a stupid idea.”
Yes, Yes, that worked so well with Solyndra.
Large, light, aiming and focusing mirrors (think Mylar umbrella) or collections, could be put in earth orbit to enhance sunlight flux for various purposes; such a project doesn't have to be government funded, but perhaps licensed (rocket launch, system safety, public concerns, etc.).
I wonder how the world would react if Russia decided to make Siberia, or even Moscow, warmer by deploying such a system? I guess the Anthropogenic Climate Change crowd would blow a cork!
That's too bad. I've often been inhibited from elaborating on ideas that I've not had the skill or time to seriously evaluate, but superficially, seem practical and maybe even valuable. I guess fear of ridicule suppresses many good ideas.
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