August 17, 2019
The following story is from a highly confidential and wholly unreliable source. It seems to contain a fair measure of both fake news that should be true and good sense not permitted by thought police. Hopefully, an astute reader will discern the difference.
We have been hearing rumors about Project Mar-a-Lago for over a year, but only now are reports filtering out about its substance. It seems that President Trump is not at all a “climate denier,” but rather saw all the proposed solutions as baby steps, many in the wrong direction. Sometime last summer he convened a golf outing at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Included among the guests were climate scientists, geologists, mathematicians, leaders in the military and industry as well as top White House and Treasury advisors. A project was formulated at that outing that has since been referred to by the code name, “Project Mar-a-Lago.”
One report recently emerged that Professor Amos T. Feare, director of the Climate Science Lab at Stamford, and reportedly a participant at the Mar-a-Lago meeting, is about to publish a new climate model. Dr. Feare has discussed in several papers the inadequacy of models from the twentieth century as they used data from only about a century. With newer computers capable of processing hundreds of times more data, and using data inferred from geological studies spanning 65 million years, Dr. Fears’ work is said to be far more precise and insightful. The project team is apparently using the new model to assess the probability of various possible climate change outcomes and cost benefit analyses of actions under consideration. Dr. Feare would not comment on the project, or even acknowledge its existence, but he did say the twenty first century is giving us analytical tools Al Gore couldn’t possibly imagine.
Admiral I. R. Seaborne (USN Ret.), also rumored to be at the Mar-a-Lago meeting, declined comment on any project. He does, however, frequently seem open to discuss his long-standing conviction that modular nuclear power using ship reactor designs is “shovel ready” for land based deployment world wide. Admiral Seaborne opined, “Over 3,000 reactor years of accident free operation at sea should be enough to convince most skeptics of nuclear reliability!” After first demurring from any interview, he went on and on about the collateral advantages of modular units. Just as on shipboard, each reactor would have integrated water desalinization as a by-product of running with a constant load. The modularity would allow less dependence on the grid, thereby increasing efficiency, safety and security. Since the initial fuel charge would last for thirty years, reactors could drop into place with little infrastructure investment and few geographic limitations. Operating and maintenance procedures are fully in place and operating contracts can easily be supplied with the units by any of the three American suppliers of reactors to the Navy. When asked about disposal of spent fuel, Admiral Seaborne replied impatiently, “Why do you think God made black holes in deep space?
Meanwhile, even without any formal announcement, excitement seems to be building at the White House. High-level sources, on condition of anonymity, confirmed that President Trump was all but despondent prior to the meeting at Mar-a-Lago. Ideas such as the “Green New Deal” would impoverish us all and still make an insignificant dent in the global carbon footprint. (Since 2005 carbon emissions in the U.S. had contracted 14% while increasing globally 21%.) The other hue and cry from pundits was for International co-operation. Trump realizes, as we all should, that International agreements are usually considered binding on the United States, but just a suggestion for everyone else. It is totally different now, The President can hardly restrain from tweeting. It is believed over twenty units are optioned world-wide, all built in America to American design and managed to U. S. Navy standards. Half of these are said to be in the U.S. including three in California. T. J. “Sparky” Breaker, CEO of Pacific Power is said to be fully on board with this solution to relieve his fire risks and provide a new water source for irrigation.
With all this information available to us we tried to understand the reason for hyper-secrecy. There are apparently three contributing factors. First, the results from the new models seem to show we have ample time to execute this solution. Since there will no doubt be push back, the team wants to improve their confidence to an exceptionally high level. After all, if we really don’t have time, lets just throw a big farewell party for planet earth.
Second, lack of an announcement is holding nothing up. The project is not in conflict with sensible conservation initiatives or gas, solar and wind power investments. The systems design, manufacture and operating procedures for Project Mar-a-Lago are all in place. All aspects of the project seem to be moving ahead full steam.
Finally, this is a huge investment program and the economics will surely be questioned. The plan includes securing commitments for cost reductions with volume production and prepackaging financing with incentives. Contrary to the government’s typical ready-fire-aim investment approach, the President sees a great need for thoughtful planning.
This story is so phenomenal that we felt compelled to check other journalistic sources for corroboration. Brazen Liehrer at the Times claims to have the whole story on ice, including transcripts from Mar-a-Lago and many other details. He and the Times view it as a hoax, just another bit of fake news from this White House. They do not see it as “News fit to print.”
More to follow on this breaking story?