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. I mean we bring these big pieces of equipment in. If you could just imagine these big pieces of equipment running down the street. Essentially we've seen drug houses scram out of the area before. When these people see these big machines they get the heck out of the area because they know overwhelming force has arrived and that we're not screwing around anymore. All right. I love the visual pers…

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blightauthority.com. And go ahead and submit your ideas. We may be actually taking some of your ideas and putting them into practice. In fact this one city that we're going to be announcing, we're going to be using some of these ideas to actually put them into practice. So visit us at blightauthority.com.

So I'm going to show the audience some ideas. And now these ideas were not... we're not suggesting these are the great ideas. These are more for brainstorming, get your mind working about what the possibilities are once you've got urban areas that are cleared and very low cost because essentially they didn't have value before. So they could be obtained by various entities for whatever ideas they have.

So Bill, would you be able to talk to the data center idea?

Absolutely. So one of the things when we go in and we take these big bulldozers, Scott, we remove this area is we figure out okay what can go there next. And one of the things that you and I actually talked about on Fox News was this data center. And we brought it up on Fox with Ainsley Earhardt and had a good conversation about this. This effectively, as you can see here, is taking vacant land and turning it into a data center that can then act as a heat source. So for example imagine a city like Detroit, especially with the sub-30, sub-40 degree temperatures. You could basically have a data center and I think there's a lot of people looking at this by the way across urban America to put, for example, a data center, have that heat then be recycled and then use it to actually take care of the thermal aspects of homes. So for example you wouldn't have the heating bills, you wouldn't have the gas bills. Believe it or not, Scott, people in Detroit don't have heat in many cases. So this is an example where not only could you go in and get rid of the blight but then you could do something very cool afterwards.

And this actually came from one of your viewers, Scott, which I think is the most interesting thing about this one. Right. And then we threw it to the picture. And again these are just brainstorming pictures. I'm not claiming that this would be practical. But I threw a CO2 scrubber in there. Maybe you're doing something with the rising warm air. Here we've got the heat going under the highways and sidewalks so you don't have to shovel the snow. So that's one idea.

Now the bigger picture here for this idea and the other ones you're going to see is the idea of designing not just one building to go into these cleared areas but rather to design a system or to look at a more comprehensive way to design something that fits together and works together well in that area.

Yes. Do you want to take that one? So let's... well let's give one more example of the... here's a hospital. So let me talk about this one then Bill. We'll talk about the residential one after this.

So here here's a concept where there's essentially a teaching hospital and then around it would be a bunch of medical startups. So you would conceive this from the start as a place that medical startups can go to work with a hospital that's connected to all the startups but also maybe it's a way to lower health care costs because you could imagine for example that you would get better than average care but because there's a little bit of experimenting maybe they give them the rights to some of your data. Maybe you agree to some tests that are not invasive, things that are safe. And you've got several benefits. So you've got maybe health care for the people, maybe you've created some jobs, and maybe some of the startups have some access to people in testing and experts as well. That's just one idea.

Now Bill, we also talked about some residential ideas. You can see this on your screen as well, can't you Bill?

Yes I can. And you know what's interesting about this one, Scott, is for example the Brightmoor community comes to mind in this one or the Grandmont Rosedale area for example in Detroit. There are a bunch of neighborhoods that frankly could benefit from basically what you have here: safety, cost, work, food, and learning. I know this sounds basic to a lot of people who live in neighborhoods but safety doesn't even exist in many of these neighborhoods, S

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cott. So to people looking at this and saying you know what is this, it's actually this is a big problem. Obviously work is a big issue in many of these urban areas, Scott. People can't even get work in the area so they're having to take buses 20, 30 miles out of an urban corridor to do it. So the logic here, Scott, as you and I think you drew this out very nicely in great Dilbert format here, it…

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