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All Power Plants for UN nations shall be placed on an island that is guarded by UN forces. This would reduce pollution in nations and make the power plants safer by making it harder for terrorists to blow up. Each UN nation will make a decision to place whichever type of power plant they want on the island. The power would than be distributed to all UN nations. If one nation experienced a power shortage than power from other plants would be directed to that nation.



Please support this propsal and have a nice day. :D

Catholic Europe does not support this proposal.

Whilst it would be good if it worked that is the problem - it won't work. It is too ambitious and plus, is there one island that is big enough to acomodate all the worlds energy needs?

There is too much potential for abuse by those that control the UN, not to mention that this would make a very tempting terroist target. The consequences of either scenario is too great.

We will not vote for this resolution and will vote against it if it reaches the floor. If it looks like it is going to pass on the last day, we will resign from the UN... forever.

The idea of a World Grid is not, the Watenhi government believes, feasible. Putting all of one's eggs in one basket is one thing, but putting one's entire society in one basket, however well-guarded, is quite another. Were a terrorist attack, sabotage or treachery to occur, this would have catastrophic consequences for the world, and the Watenhi goverment accepts that no amount of personnel screening is prefect. Should such a proposal come to the floor, Watenho will oppose it.

Felix Niels, President of Watenho

The government of Zalurian finds this proposal to be highly impractical. Transporting electricity underwater is very expensive and can be dangerous, and some nations will have an extremely large distance to transport their electricity. Furthermore, in the event of a war or terrorist attack, the island would become a prime target. If a nuclear powerplant were to fail or be partially destroyed, the entire island would become uninhabitable, and so all the power plants would cease to function. Consequently, the probability that the entire world will suddenly have no electricity increases greatly.

I would vote against such a resolution.

Prime Minister Akazu Kojima of Zalurian

Since the United Nations has 33,633 member nations, if each nation had only ONE power plant you would need an island around the size of austrailia to hold all the plants and the major city with all its attendant needs, to house the support staff to run all the plants. Then there is the army sized security force needed to guard the island, and where's the nearly million miles of power lines going to come from and what about the current loss that normally occures along long distance lines?

The Community of Bariloche gets most of their power from clean (even if not all the ecological they should be) sources. Most of the power comes from Hidroelectrical plants (both river and tidal based), and we also have wind based centrals as well as a fair amount of solar powered houses, which are self-supported in electrical needs and are not connected to the nation power-grid.

We see no use for this proposal as we cannot move our power sources nor give any founding to such a massive enterprise.

-double post- d*** :x