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Simple. Because what people want may not be what they need.

But then why not plug in your laptop to your TV? That would be the simplest method.

You don't really need a tv nowadays. You can watch re-runs on your laptop. http://video.xin.msn.com/browse/catch-up-tv

The amount of population that Singapore can support really boils down to the investment in infrastructure that the government makes. It doesn't matter whether you have 20,000,000 (china during qin dynasty) or 6,900,000 (white paper proposal) or 321,857 (iceland 2013 est.). It really matters how...

the notion of the 'fittest', like the 'term meritocracy' is quite vague. Who defines the 'fittest'? Is it some mathematical equation or a computer algorithm? Or simply numbers that are conveniently traded around? Should these numbers be fidgeted with using policies like Quantitative easing?

Should not a country put the interests of it's citizens first and foremost?

How would you feel if you were crushed by someone who used to be your best friend and end up selling tissue paper on the walkway, and he doesn't feel anything at all. Just normal. The ants don't fight back because it is not their interest to do so. There are quadrillions (1,000,000,000,000,000)...

Technocracy alone does not address sustainability. Someone can come up with a technically brilliant solution, but it will turn our environment into a wasteland 300 years from now. It must be emphasised that sustainability (which is part of the green movement) is one of the key parameters when...

As with all movements, there are always variations. Some green movements advocate going back in time or preservation etc. Bright green environmentalism is driven more by aggresively using, rather than avoiding the use technology to solve environmental problems. for example, during the recent...

One problem if you follow the system, who decides who are the workers and who are the leaders? given such a system, the position of leadership tends to be hereditary - the rich employs lawyers / financial consultants to fleece the poor, passing on the system to their children, who inherit their...

Where we sought to find the underlying mechanism of work done, we find finance to be a smokescreen. What we discovered instead, was the law of thermodynamics. Should our best and brightest would.work on science / technology / engineering instead of cooking up schemes to mess up the financial system?

Key concept here is the use of technology and social innovation to provide path to sustainable development. Our success should not be measured solely in terms of GDP, the value of our real estate. We should be focusing on fertility rate, reducing stress at work, educating people about their...

If we put the nuclear reactor aboard a ship sail it to deep ocean generate synthetic fuels from there and transport it back to singapore. Problem solved. Nuclear waste - burn in fast breeder reactors.

:mad: He forgot to mention NS! Taiwan is doing away with NS, while Singapore stubbornly clings on to it.

Even US is getting on the bandwagon... Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees

Hot Fusion is still not out of the R+D stage yet. ITER (wiki link) won't come online until 2018, and my engineer instincts tell me there will be delays... Cold nuclear energy... is even farther away. I guess the ball is still on the researcher's court to describe the theroetical /...

1. Again I remind you that the Fischer Tropsch process doesn't require coal or natural gas. The reaction is (2n+1)H₂ + nCO → C_nH_(2n+2) + nH₂O In current processes the H2 and CO is generated through syngas, which produced by steam reformation of...

1. I have a degree in engineering. However I welcome any nuclear physicist / chemist to comment me. 2. I don't like nuclear reactions in SGP either. What I did was to propose to put them on ships and operate them in international waters. What is it so different from the 7 nuclear powered...

1. Using coal to generate syngas (which is part of the ingredients Fischer-Tropsch) process would defeat the purpose of preventing greenhouse emissions. Instead, we would use fission power alone to generate CO from CO2 by heating it up to 2400 degC. see Carbon capture and storage (wiki link)...

As for Stanely Meyer and thermodynamics, have you read the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_suppression ? If you stand on the side of the free energy conspiracists, then I have nothing more to say. As for the AC/DC war, a reference for the readers...