Any thoughts how CF technology might affect city sewer services? This is already being tried, but CF technology should make it even more cost effective if excrement is processed close to its source rather than conveyed through a vast system of underground pipes to a central processing facility. There will be no point in rebuilding aging sewer systems.
Harry On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote: > >> The biggest problem this caused was the pension funds for retired workers. >> Congress passed a law funding them, in a one-time adjustment. > > > I meant the pensions being paid out to people already retired in 1932. Not > the funds then being put aside by workers still employed. > > This is the "legacy" problem. U.S. steel companies and GM had the same > problem before it went bankrupt. In the 1950s and 60s GM had a large > workforce. They retired. The company still has to pay them (or their wives). > This gives newcomers to the U.S. market such as Toyota and Hyundai a big > advantage. > > I expect there will be one-time adjustments made by the government in > response to cold fusion, such as the depression era adjustment to railroad > pensions, and Obama's lightening fast bankruptcy reorganization of GM. > > - Jed >
