If it were up to you, how would you spend $ 2,400,000,000,000 (2.4 trillion) dollars?

Your question details include already the best answer, there is no better answer until now to your question.

Thinking about it I would suggest to spend the money to introduce the 'StressReleaseExercise' all over the world, to every body, starting in schools with kids from the beginning. Making it to a part of ones daily routines, every where: in companies, hospitals, police stations, government administrations, public services, universities, every where. This would be without doubt the most effective to have a positive impact to the awareness of all people. Getting out of dependencies and taking self responsibility. That's the only thing that could have the power to change something about the world situation, much more than solar panels on the roof.

This would need only a small percentage of the money you 'offer', but unfortunately there is hardly anybody who want to support this intention and so this possibility is not used.

I do my best to spread out information about meditation and the 'StressReleaseExercise'. I don't need money to do so and use the means that are free, like this place...

One does not need money to do something effective about ones situation and also not to change the global situation. One need to start with oneself and this is the most effective, although this is not what people want because it is also the most unused and often most uncomfortable. No money can bring one to such a step, only if one is really tired about ones rat race and being stuck in a system where no exit seems possible. But there is indeed...

Ask for it and a new door will open...

BeiYin

Hello,

I think the wars are about guaranteeing someone will have an abundance of cheap oil, although, I'm not sure, it's so much for the American people.

How can we take care of other countries when we can take care of our own. America needs to take care of home first.

That that amount of money, needs to be put back into America, we are in the state of technology where, We should be designing, light weight, sturdy and practical, automobiles that, should be running on things, other than gas, our fossil fuels. We should not be relying on other countries, as our immediate source of fuel.

That money should be distributed through-out all the families in America; (Give it to the people)

To let them use it to get the necessities needed

to make the US people live in a a more energy efficient country.

I remember a time when we were looking for ways to expand

our world, so that It would be come more advanced in technology; All over the world, In ALL Aspects. Solar powered homes,cars,everyday living items, living in an energy efficient world, little-to-no fossil fuel being used.

Then in actuality's, you'll probably save millions more, making things like stipends, grants and other resource monies available for our advancements in technology, educational institutions, medical researches, our environment and

other opportunities that make our country such 'A great place to live'.

Think about it, in order for the Average American to drive on gas that's 'affordable' we're giving away enough money to another government to enrich the people population's, everyday lives. In many parts of the USA there are people that probably don't make $32,000 in a year.

The amount our government is willing to pay, or put

into other countries to use there resources,

could very well be used, to pool to utilize our own..

"A 5kW complete solar system can be installed on a home and will provide all the energy needs of most conventional homes and will cost approximately $32,000."

Bet it won't come close to providing the energy needs of Al Gores house now will it? LMAO!!!

At least Bush isn't lecturing you on how you personally should not be invading other countries. BTW, how was dinner tonight? Did you go eat out see a movie perhaps? For even a second did the thought cross you mind that the restuarant or theater you were in might be the target of a suicide bomber or other terrorist attack? Thought NOT!! Perhaps you could explain how you would protect that peace of mind with your 5kW solar array.

I love what you have to say this is absolutely what we should do we really don't need fossil fuels there are alternatives we should all have houses that have large solar panels on the roof we are so worried about oil when all it's doing is killing us I think they should ban fossil fuels all over and what's the point of war? I don't think people even know that fossil fuels are killing us all people are worried about is money. Why not instead oil companies giving oil they should install alternative energy sources you bring up a great question with to conflicts I really like this question.

I would spend 1/3 on fission reactors, 1/3 on clean coal and 1/3 on fusion reactor research. In my mind that would shore up the US security issue associated with dependence on foreign oil. Photovoltaic is not capable of being a primary source of energy for the US grid, because of battery technology. Some type of break through in a capacitance storage systems or more efficient electrolysis (hydrogen production) could change that, but at night we still use a lot of energy.

That's alot of wonga, I'd not go down the entirely decentralised power route, It's expensive, useless in the 'dark' and PV panels aren't that clean.

Assuming we didn't go to war in Iraq and afganistan. you'd heve to spend some of the money to calm the armchair warmongers and assure the public that the threat was being managed. You could do all this by 'brainwashing' (I said it so that they don't have to) the public into becoming more frugal, this would persuade the rest of the world America isn't into neocolonialism, as you'd have less need to bleed the world's resources, so reducing the security threat, and do a great deal to help the environment.

Not very sexy, I know.

(UK)

Mostly developing and deploying alternative sources of energy (nuclear, solar, and wind) and alternative vehicles (battery and fuel cell powered).

Some would go to better land use, and long term research. Better save some to deal with the unavoidable effects of global warming, even as we do all of the above.

I would give it all to Ban Ki Moon, the Baldwin Brothers, Sean Penn, Rosie, Mahmoud Amidinijad, Babs, Ellen Degenerate's stupid dog that she keeps whining about, Osama Bin Laden, Jerry Rivers, Britney Spears, Carrot Top, Barbara Bwaxa, Carol Midgen, Lynn Woosley, and Jimmy Carter.

I believe I'd party down in Scottsdale Arizona come winter eating Maine Lobster and Japanese Kobe beef. Buy some of that artsy overpriced trash they sell in that burg and hang it in my way to big house I bought up on a hill nearby to look down on the peons.

Besides that I'm just wondering about the eventual cost of maintaining all these solar arrays that your putting up all over the place.

I wouldn't. I'd do something stupid like divide against a figure (say earth's estimated population) and send everyone a check. Again that is stupid because their are places (like Latin America and Africa etc) where the military or government/s will just take the money away from the people. Well, there it is. But you asked. :)