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Other Solutions
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"Recommendation Concerning U.S. Energy Policy"
Winsights No. 111 (January/February 2010) provides a position briefing: Use taxes and tax credits to encourage and develop the flexfuel market.
- Ten Paths to Economic Recovery proposes controversial programs which could
bring us truly major, stable, sustainable long-term economic growth (as of December, 2009).
- Sequestering
CO2
is arguably the most economical way, not only the least disruptive way, to geo-engineer a rapid solution to global warming. In Winsights No. 108 (July/August 2009).
- "Situations Present and Pending"
Winsights No. 103 (May/June 2008) expands on a simple, feasible proposal for Oceanic Fish Farming that can abundantly and profitably feed the world in the coming times of famine. Calling for entrepreneurs.
- In How to Free Us from
OPEC, guest author Robert Zubrin proposes mandating all vehicles
sold in U.S. to be flex-fueled—able to run on any combination of
gasoline or alcohol fuels.
- Winsights No. 101 suggests a simple
solution by Susan Wenger in "How Many Grueling
Hours Could This Proposal Save YOU At Tax Time?" by letting the IRS
do most of the work.
- Two Major Ways to
Fund the Development of Space include lease-bond sales of Mars
acreage.
- Coils, an obvious
use of electromagnets to deflect space radiation from astronauts.
- Winsights No. 59 outlines a bold plan for "Feeding the World" by creating low-cost, underwater fish farms, achievable with present-day technology.
- Winsights No. 53 proposes a solution for
how to "Save Millions
of Lives Around Bengal"
and make that region prosperously productive by fending off the
destructive cyclones that periodically devastate the region.
- "Reviving Appalachia"
is the subject of Winsights No. 30, outlining how incentives for slag
recovery could bring this poorest of regions back to life.
- Winsights No. 31, "How
to Wipe Out Most Taxes in New York City, and Improve City Services at
the Same Time", is a proposal for turning a million square feet of
neglected and unclaimed groundspace into income-producing and
revenue-producing real estate.
- Winsights No. 32, "Quick
Rummage of Profitable Answers", suggests three obvious but long overlooked areas for profitable ventures.
- Winsights No. 34, "Bringing
Peace: The Balkans, Northern
Ireland, and elsewhere", outlines how to build a long-term solution through mutual incentives.
- Winsights No. 35, "Restore
Some Who Suffer Long-Term Coma?"
proposes techniques for breaking through to whatever part of the brain
in the terminally comatose is still responsive.
- Winsights No. 36, "How
to Bring Lasting Peace to the Middle East",
is a proposal for establishing a major, permanent U.N. headquarters on
the Golan Heights.
- Winsights No. 38, "Frog
Warming",
describes how to rearrange incentives as a means to restoring the
global temperature balance.
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