200. Papa Ray

Charles you said: “Also, I think that the army corp of engineers (and FEMA)should be redirected from spending billions annually to dike the Missippi to piping the Missippi’s flood waters out west.”

Great idea that has been around for at least fifty years and never gotten traction or money enough to even start.
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Its become much more possible recently because of the development of portable nuclear power plants. ie the complexity of the project has declined significantly. the project is technically easy. Instead of stringing thousands of miles of wire from distant power plants, all you need to do is lay pipe pipe pipe pipe generator/portable nuke pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe generator/portable nuke and so on.