The health and safety of individuals is priority first and foremost, followed by the recovery of critical infrastructure services (power, water, hospital services, transportation etc.).

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The engineering requirement overall for CST, wind-power, new power distribution, electric transportation etc. is phenomenal and unprecedented, and while I marvel at the audacity of the proposal, I doubt very much that it can be done in time, if at all.

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These include information about vulnerabilities associated with U.S. ports, airports, transportation systems, refineries, chemical and nuclear facilities, etc.

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Most of the world needs solutions to problems we rarely talk about, in areas like health care, agricultural production, sustainable construction, citizen activism and empowerment, childhood education, affordable transportation, supply chain optimization, community solidarity and efficacy, etc.

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And yet both are dependent on an infrastructure of electricity and transportation that leads to oil spills, high asthma rates, contaminated water, etc.

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