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Recession? I've Got a Solution

three things:

"afflicted", not "inflicted"

i'm with you on the diagnosis and the domestic energy production idea as a solution. low interest rates will be an incredible boon for large capital projects like new energy construction.

but coal to fuel has fundamental energy problems. energy problems don't just go away with thing like miniaturization of chips or evolution of materials (the way that cell phones and cars got better). energy problems deal much closer to the edges of the laws of physics. so, the coal-to-liquids technology today is probably about 90% as good as it will ever be in terms of coal-to-liquid conversion efficiency (and thus CO2/gallon of fuel produced).

i like non-silicon solar, breeder-reactor nukes, tree-crop biofuels, and PHEVs as domestic energy solutions.