League of Women Voters, change “nuclear waste” to “global open resources”
@LWV In 1993 the League of Women Voters published a book “Nuclear Waste Primer – A Handbook for Citizens”. Now many women are deeply engaged in scientific, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, finance, government, running organizations, and global topics and systemic issues. I grew up with WWII just a few years in the past, through cold wars and hot ones. But I clearly remember that “atomic power” was intended for the benefit of all humans. Yet not only were women discouraged from studying isotopes, but men as well, except for many working by closed decision processes.
I am simply trying to find what LWV might be doing to encourage all humans to understand those materials and, hopefully, provide the whole human species with what was first hoped – clean, safe, open, reliable, understandable, accessible, useful – energy and properties of materials with bonds energies in KeV and MeV, (Kilo electron Volt and Mega electron Volt). The “chemical bonds” are a few electron volts.
In the book it describes the massive cleanup of the facilities that were aimed to produce weapons, and the early experiments in using KeV and MeV bond materials to store and produce energy. It seems that, for space travel, for remote projects, for many reasons the United States, and the world ought to deeply understand and use those kinds of resources for all humans.
My other question was “Is the LWV committed to benefiting all humans, all countries?” The US federal agencies and many of the efforts it sponsors are intended for the benefit of all humans (about 8.2 Billion now), but much of that is not shared, or even saved and used.
For the last 27 years I have been studying the whole Internet to see why many global issues and global opportunities have never been been mapped completely, nor finished. Global climate change, poverty, homelessness, hunger, education, access to knowledge, access to mentors and resources, access to appropriate and sustainable tools.
As I get older and tired, I am narrowing down the things I think I might work on the rest of my life. Fusion and clean fission are two of those areas where the information had been impossible to find. Now the Internet resources on these topics is better. The federal and international agencies are contributing to that. But in terms of having “mr fusion” or “fusion rockets” and such, the habit is to just dump a few ideas on the Internet and say “here, come use what we found”.
Maybe I am supposed to write a short pithy, click baity, note. I am just too tired, so I am trying to write from my heart after working hard for the last 60 years to understand chemistry, physics, mathematics, statistics, intelligent systems and “everything on the Internet”.
I have not seen any real examples of Elon Musk “open discussion”. Maybe I just look in the wrong place, or their algorithms thinks I would not be interested. “Oh, those people are not interested in that.”
But on the Internet the “discussions” end up being “chat”, and the websites end up being “publications” that never listen or engage.
Maybe you all can sort through these things, with care and patience. All the women in my family were strong and careful, prayerful and patient, capable and practical, and a lot more. Maybe a woman president might change things, if the long term issues are not forgotten. The hundred year and 1000 year issues.
I set up the Famine Early Warning System for USAID and State in the 1980s but before that worked at Georgetown University and USAID on integrated long range planning for all countries, all industries, all things. So that the basics, the map, the entities, the resources were clear to anyone who wanted to be involved. Now we need more to monitor and intervene in conflicts. There are many. And perhaps to monitor and intervene in global issues and global opportunities where “citizens” and “citizen scientists” and caring people can be heard.
If I ask the GPT AIs to read what I write, they always generate these LONG plans and frameworks how they think it ought to go. But that is not how I write. I just try to say things from my heart and look toward a future that is just getting shorter all the time.
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
