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|    Treon Verdery to All    |
|    It occurs to me that at 2019 US homeless    |
|    07 Sep 22 09:33:57    |
      From: treon3verdery@gmail.com              At nations with just 10 million people philanthropists could provide       photovoltaic Costco huts ($1200), with portable toilets, continuous video and       audio at the area, lighting and a portable shower building for their 33,333       homeless people (or fewer        depending on the country) for about 69 million US $ at $2000 per person. There       could be a simultaneously utilitarian method, this could be combined with the       vacant commercial land being developable into the riskless, financially       neutral, generator of        greater numbers of parks method, change to the law. Another simultaneously       utilitarian way to do this is credit unions voluntarily setting aside .01% of       the accrued interest on typical US 250k-300K dwellings to finance a $2000k       Costco mini hut dwelling        for the homeless. The credit union could then use the projected value of each       $250-300k dwelling loan with factoring to create an immediate amount of money       to order the mini-huts. This could have advertising appeal to banks, at 2019,       "finance with us and        provide a homeless person with shelter until 2062" (42 year durability of       Costco mini hut). The combination of 4 out of 100 people financing through       banks and all the people financing through credit unions would generate       mini-huts from 7-14% of all        dwelling financing. At the US with about 79 million 2019 financed dwellings       value 21.7 trillion at 7% voluntary participation and .01% interest is 1.5       billion $, that is about 2/3 of the amount required to provide minihuts for       all the homeless people in        the US, at a 9.3% participation rate the full amount is covered. I read people       in the US move about every seven years, if so then it is possible every 11       years 79 million dwelling refinances occur (some people do not move), which       makes the process take        that long, and much more rapidly at some areas (credit unions like to reinvest       in local communities, banks can remit funds where the opportunity is       greatest). Also, it could be a standard part of the credit unions' and banks'       package for people opting        for the dwelling for homeless program, the financing corporation could provide       a "this months interest rate or next months interest rate whichever is lower"       standard option, half of all the people financing dwellings would gain lower       interest rates a        month later making their financing more affordable.. The financial companies       could figure out the difference between the two interest rates dollar values,       perhaps 1-2% change at the initial interest rate, so perhaps $20-40 to cover       the difference for one        month, if the banks charged $60 for the lowest interest rate occurring over       two months option they would earn 33-300% profit from making the product       available at that fee, and more if they rolled it into the dwelling loan.       There is however the value to        the bank of immediately transferring the financing to another financial       company and getting money up front. Of course a "this months interest rate or       less" financial product could be created even without the dwellings for the       homeless aspect. Another        possibility is that people nice enough to opt for the dwellings for the       homeless financing package are quantifiably better credit risks and so the       .01% is covered with the reduction of risk to the financial institution. That       would be functional up to        median credit risk, possibly causing as much as 49% participation. I read       about a philanthropist that gave $1 billion to a form of government and they       could have done something more beneficial.              Things that fill children's lives with happiness              Longevity technology              MWI technology              Semiconductor technology              Element and metal extraction from seawater, I read that some microorganisms       concentrate metals from seawater and green fluorescent protein could be       prompted to be produced more when more metals concentrate at a microorganism.       Exposing a flask with a        trillion different microorganisms to mutagens, where the culture is of 7-100       microrganisms known to concentrate elements like metals, at a nutrient broth       that also causes plasmid swapping (calcium ions is a possibility), causes a       trillion microorganism        screenable amount that with flow cytometry to quantify light emission produces       the 99.999999999th percentile highest performing element concentrating       microorganisms. The microorganisms can be optimized around a single element or       metal, or several. Flow        cytometry characterizes and transports the most effective organisms to       separate containers for further culture or repeat mutation cycles. One       application is nanotechnology utilizing algae or bacteria to gather elements       and metals that humans are not        using that is without much effect, or possibly utilizing software guidance to       cause metal harvesting with no effect on marine life is also possible              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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