Your Country Your Call.

[eamo1]

Here's a link to some of the suggestions so far for the "Your Country Your Call" initiative started by President Mary Mc Aleese last week.This is a good initiative i think,interesting to see what kind of idea's come from it and what the 2 winning one's are.

http://www.yourcountryyourcall.com/about.html

I like the Noah's Ark suggestion,it will solve the flooding problems and generate jobs in the construction industry again.There's some good suggestion's,like moving into software developement which is a massive industry these days.

[eamo1]

On the bottom right of the page on that link is a link for "open for proposals" in which the suggestions are in.

[peadar1987]

I've put in my opinion that we should invest in the development of renewable energy. A few people beat me to the punch, but the more support the scheme has the better!

[dahamsta]

Great idea, horrific implementation.

[monutdfc]

From the Competition Terms and Conditions:

5.8 All Proposals must be in English.

Is leatsa é indeed!

7.2 At Promoter’s option, in consideration of entry into the Competition the winning Participants (including, where relevant, all Team members of such Participants) shall irrevocably transfer, convey and assign to the Promoter (or such party that the Promoter may direct) all right, title and interest in and to the winning Proposal and all Intellectual Property Rights therein (excluding moral rights). The winning Participants (including, where relevant, all Team members of such Participants) further agree to waive all moral rights relating thereto and agree to execute all documents and perform all acts deemed necessary by the Promoter to apply for, register, perfect and record such transfer and assignment and/or waivers.

So give us your ideas and if we like them we'll keep them for ourselves

[Macy]

Didn't some crowd do this or something very similar last year, lead by some journo? Even down to taking the good ideas?

Must be the effect of the Greens in Government that everything gets feckin recycle and reused...

[Bluebeard]

Hmm. You elect us to run the country, you pay us to do this, and we get you to make the decisions, and give us ideas how to get us out of the fix that we got ourselves into, and take the credit...

Better than the previous system of looking for excuses rather than solutions, I suppose.

[Macy]

It was the "ideas campaign" that was running last year. http://www.ideascampaign.ie/about/

[peadar1987]

It's great, I think. 4 million people in the country, somebody out there must have the solutions! Although I did end up having an argument with someone who was convinced he had invented a magic perpetual motion machine the government should invest in before he was killed!

[eamo1]

There was a guy on Today FM's The Last Word program a few years ago who claimed he could harness unlimited energy by using magnetic fields etc.He put an ad in The Economist and other publications for scientists to review his findings and approve(or disapprove) of them.I had been keeping an eye out for anything further news on it but the guy seems to have "disappeared",hmm.
I think this innitiative is good but obviously the winner should get all the credit and not,as someone said, some incompetent politician who will try take credit for it.

[dahamsta]

You're thinking of Steorn. Seán McCarthy is still peddling that crap around. There's no such thing as free energy, you might as well hook electrodes up to David Blaine, or believe that sugar and water can cure cancer.

[Bluebeard]

Ugh. More nonscience. It's fools like that who make a very good case to employ a police force dedicated to upholding the laws of physics.

[dahamsta]

Ben Goldacre for Chief, Simon Singh for Depitee.

[gilberto_eire]

I say we put it all on Kauto Star in the Gold Cup at Cheltenham

[Lionel Ritchie]

We could make nuclear weapons for the Iranians?

Everyone wins. We get their oil money, they get their nuclear weapons, the international community gets reassurance that while Iran owns nuclear weapons -the whole operation has been outsourced. For an extra fee we, here in Ireland, could even point their nuclear weapons at America which would serve to reassure the Americans that their chances of actually being hit by one is at best remote.

Now all we have to get over is the moral conundrum of being a neutral country contemplating allowing a belligerents ordinance pass through our airspace, airports and borders ....hmmm.

[Stevo Da Gull]

With regards to magnetic energy and other renewable energy forms. They're perfectly legitimate ideas, despite what the scaremongerers will say. The simple fact is, there is no/comparitvely little money to be made from an unlimited energy source, so it wouldn't be supported until all money making sources have been exhausted, regardless of the benefits to your average joe and the environment.

[osarusan]

The simple fact is, there is no/comparitvely little money to be made from an unlimited energy source.

what do you mean by this?

[Stevo Da Gull]

what do you mean by this?

When an energy source is unlimited and very cheap to harness, you can't ethically charge people a lot for using it. The amount of money that is made from oil dwarfs the potential profit from any renewable source by quite a way. If we stick with oil as an example, there are a huge amount of jobs in the oil industry - in research, on riggs and so forth. Once you're tapping an unlimited energy source - wave power, for example, there's nowhere near as much employment needed.

[John83]

With regards to magnetic energy and other renewable energy forms. They're perfectly legitimate ideas, despite what the scaremongerers will say. The simple fact is, there is no/comparitvely little money to be made from an unlimited energy source, so it wouldn't be supported until all money making sources have been exhausted, regardless of the benefits to your average joe and the environment.

No, they're not. If you can prove differently, you'll get a Nobel Prize in Physics and make enough money from the patent to buy Denmark.

When an energy source is unlimited and very cheap to harness, you can't ethically charge people a lot for using it. The amount of money that is made from oil dwarfs the potential profit from any renewable source by quite a way. If we stick with oil as an example, there are a huge amount of jobs in the oil industry - in research, on riggs and so forth. Once you're tapping an unlimited energy source - wave power, for example, there's nowhere near as much employment needed.

Do you really think there's no jobs in research and on plants for renewables? Ha! Propose a cheap way of harnessing wave energy. Go on, I dare you.

[dahamsta]

<dahamsta lols>

I've created an unlimited energy machine powered by homeopathists!