"Rock City" goes out to forty-eight pages and those have been published as drafts to iBooks and to PDF to get a view of them. The PDF cleverly tacks on a separate page for each entry in the glossary so that added about fifteen more. The PDF can be easily emailed if anyone is interested but that's very much premature relative to the complete saga.
There's one minor correction for Yucca Flat since the actual name is the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.
And, oh yeah, Obama killed funding in 2011 or, more accurately, Congress killed it and he didn't stop it. Here's the beauty part: ever since then nuclear waste has been stored on-site at nuclear sites in impenetrable casks. Groovy. Way to deal with a problem. (WIKI: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository)
Q. What do we know about impenetrable casks?
A. With enough ammonium nitrate you can blow up the entire state and your casks will be nothing but radioactive shrapnel. (WIKI: Texas City disaster of 1947)
No need to go far off into editorials as it's a broken system with incompetent leaders and the results are predictably bad every time. We have almost completely lost interest in their puerile gamesmanship with this election and want something bigger. The beauty part is I don't have to do anything because I'm not going to build the Rock City, you are (larfs).
You will too because the Rock City is inevitable since you have run yourself out of choices. The highway system is completely shitty but there's no way to replace it with anything better because the cities are dominated by getting cars in and out of them so there are highways and roads all over the place. Surprisingly, cities and, even more surprisingly, you have better things to do than that but, for now, you're trapped.
Enter the Rock City and anything with wheels stays outside.
You will still have your wheels outside there because rich guys like rich amusements and there's nothing like smashing up expensive hardware at high speed on a race track. Don't be thinking everything has to go underground and we damn sure don't want race tracks because of the carbon monoxide exhaust if no other reason.
Many factories can't possibly go underground as the world's farms will still need fertilizer and you damn sure don't want a factory for nitrates underground since that's one of the few things which can blow up a Rock City or at least lay serious waste to it. Don't be getting binary with this since it's not an either / or thing in which everything is underground or at ground level. Both will be used for optimum safety, productivity, all that stuff.
The intro section of the book is largely feeling out the idea of whether this can work. There needs to be a following section which gets more specific about it. After that is the point of it with how we expect Sociology to look as a result of all this. There is a caution on the second bit with getting too Tom Clancy so readers get overwhelmed by the detail but there has to be enough for credibility.
It all looks to be going swimmingly just now.
There's one minor correction for Yucca Flat since the actual name is the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.
And, oh yeah, Obama killed funding in 2011 or, more accurately, Congress killed it and he didn't stop it. Here's the beauty part: ever since then nuclear waste has been stored on-site at nuclear sites in impenetrable casks. Groovy. Way to deal with a problem. (WIKI: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository)
Q. What do we know about impenetrable casks?
A. With enough ammonium nitrate you can blow up the entire state and your casks will be nothing but radioactive shrapnel. (WIKI: Texas City disaster of 1947)
No need to go far off into editorials as it's a broken system with incompetent leaders and the results are predictably bad every time. We have almost completely lost interest in their puerile gamesmanship with this election and want something bigger. The beauty part is I don't have to do anything because I'm not going to build the Rock City, you are (larfs).
You will too because the Rock City is inevitable since you have run yourself out of choices. The highway system is completely shitty but there's no way to replace it with anything better because the cities are dominated by getting cars in and out of them so there are highways and roads all over the place. Surprisingly, cities and, even more surprisingly, you have better things to do than that but, for now, you're trapped.
Enter the Rock City and anything with wheels stays outside.
You will still have your wheels outside there because rich guys like rich amusements and there's nothing like smashing up expensive hardware at high speed on a race track. Don't be thinking everything has to go underground and we damn sure don't want race tracks because of the carbon monoxide exhaust if no other reason.
Many factories can't possibly go underground as the world's farms will still need fertilizer and you damn sure don't want a factory for nitrates underground since that's one of the few things which can blow up a Rock City or at least lay serious waste to it. Don't be getting binary with this since it's not an either / or thing in which everything is underground or at ground level. Both will be used for optimum safety, productivity, all that stuff.
The intro section of the book is largely feeling out the idea of whether this can work. There needs to be a following section which gets more specific about it. After that is the point of it with how we expect Sociology to look as a result of all this. There is a caution on the second bit with getting too Tom Clancy so readers get overwhelmed by the detail but there has to be enough for credibility.
It all looks to be going swimmingly just now.
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