Making mountains out of meltdowns (in Japan)
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Our only nuclear plant (producing around 40-45% of the power needs of the nation) is about 100 kms away from me (and the wind generally blows in another direction) so I am not worried about tsunamis either.
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@gaieus said:
Our only nuclear plant (producing around 40-45% of the power needs of the nation) is about 100 kms away from me (and the wind generally blows in another direction) so I am not worried about tsunamis either.
Well, tsunami is the only thing that could shake things up in my godforsaken city. Otherwise we´re at the serious risk of dying of boredom
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Since retirement, I occasionally watch court TV. Whenever the party the Judge is going to rule against begins their nervous smiles, the Judge will always tell them to wipe the smile off their faces, then bring down the gavel down against them. No nuclear power in Hawaii yet (unless you count the Navy berth in Pearl Harbor), but all of our power plants (at least on the island of Oahu) are next to the ocean, or water connected and close by the ocean. If a Tsunami hits us, those that are not inundated will be without power for a long while.
Mean while more bad news for Japan.
@unknownuser said:
Radioactive strontium detected in seabed
Radioactive strontium has been detected for the first time on the seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it found strontium-89 and -90 in the seabed soil. The company conducted a survey on June 2nd about 3 kilometers off the coast at 2 locations, some 20 kilometers north and south of the nuclear complex.
The substances pose a serious health risk because they can accumulate in the bones if inhaled, which could cause cancer.
Up to 44 becquerels per kilogram of strontium-90 were detected, which has a half-life of 29 years.
The substances had been detected before in soil on land and in seawater following the nuclear accident in March.
A member of the government's Nuclear Safety Commission, Shigeharu Kato, says more examination should be carried out to find out if or how the substances can accumulate in marine life.
The fishery ministry conducted separate surveys. It did not find radioactive strontium in fish and seafood samples taken off the coast of Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures. Both are located south of the Fukushima plant.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 08:54 +0900 (JST)
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@unknownuser said:
When we installed the panels on our house roof I had the expectation that we could allow them to sit there without a worry or care and to generate electricity during daylight hours for the next twenty-five years when the guarantee runs out. That they ought to be exposed to unshaded sunlight was obvious, but my early discovery that in order to achieve maximum output they need also to be rinsed periodically was an early lesson in the maintenance of solar panels. I have been more recently surprised that these two points are not fully appreciated by everyone, not even some "experts."
A really interesting report from this guy in SolCal who thought PV cells on his roof was "a great idea"
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You have a new provocative avatar
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Looks like someone shot tomcat
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@unknownuser said:
You have a new provocative avatar
Yes, however it's no more provocative than this image below is it...?
Towards the end of the last century. my family drove around English roads and up and down motorways in our cars, with an English version of this sticker in the back window. I remember it was really cool to have this sticker- even more cool if you had the one that was in German! "Atomkraft? Nein Danke!". How provocative was that?! Britain was still very mistrusting of Germany in the 60's and 70's, and this sticker represented so much more than just being anti-nuclear. It represented moving forward. Britain united with the rest of Europe. A new age. That was my interpretation of it in those days anyway. I was only a boy.
We made such a fuss over nuclear in the 1960's and 1970's. A nuclear scientist, to the intellectual middle classes was someone to have deep mistrust in. We were fed terrible images of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all driven by a deep fear of the cold war- which was at its peak. My sister would for years have nuclear 'nightmares' and would often cry herself to sleep, because largely my parents were so prominent in the British anti-nuclear movement and would fill her head with propaganda. We actually almost had an all out nuclear war in 1979- but it wasn't a republican who was going to press that big strike button, it was sweet old democratic President Carter.
In the 1980's we demonstrated about the nuclear train. (Where did that go or end?). The nuclear train even crashed once. We're still here. There were mass demonstrations in Germany, where the green movement was strong. I was a member of the British green movement in the early 1980's. I was a young fallible 16 year old, who listened too much to others rather than making my own opinions. I became highly irritated with the green party, partially because they were doing there best to "kick out the anarchists" (but mainly because at heart, they were the vacuous upper middle-class). The greens found anarchists most distasteful, because essentially anarchists were marxists. Marxism didn't bode well with middle class green ideals. Then in about 1982/3 I was sitting outside a pub during local elections, when this guy walks up to me donning a badge of a green flower with an A in the middle of it. "I'm a green anarchist" he said. It was obvious that the greens had found kudos by posing as anarchists. And those who thought they were anarchists, but weren't and were actually middle class environmentalist posers, found a way to make themselves more acceptable to the dying left, the dregs of socialism, who were slowly watching the collapse of the Soviet Union. There was a burgeoning green 'new age' growing, and those who didn't carry on with their Marxist roots (like myself), joined this new age movement. Suddenly the accolade of being labeled an "anarchist", a 'free thinker' and especially to pose as a 'green anarchist' was just too tempting, too elitist to ignore.
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So "reactive" by anti-fusion
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@unknownuser said:
Looks like someone shot tomcat
Don't worry Rich, he'll return in some shape or another...soon!
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I should point out that my avatar comes from this blog;
It's a Swedish site, but is run by many nuclear physicists from around the world, and is worth a visit as a believer or not.
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@unknownuser said:
Seems your forum is a small forum by the number of members
It's not 'my' forum.
...and seeing the amount of hysteria around over nuclear (your silly scaremongering comments don't exactly help either do they?
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It was just a word play between a personal history and a physical description
Seems your forum is a small forum by the number of members
and this video on the their blog a very optimistic one
[flash=560,349:1p1x3ycd]http://www.youtube.com/v/ITwuq4MFQlY?version=3[/flash:1p1x3ycd]
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@unknownuser said:
It was
and this video on the their blog a very optimistic one
Where are all the dead bodies? Have they hidden them? Apparently you get more carcinogens in your lungs everyday by frying sausages! (another myth perhaps?)
It's not the best of sites/blogs anyway. It's far too "too many people on the planet" malthusian nonsense for my liking. I just used their logo for my avatar.
Spiked.org is a far better, more balanced read.
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Sorry I don't want take these so beautifull white workclothes for restore these inconsequential energy!
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@tfdesign said:
@unknownuser said:
When we installed the panels on our house roof I had the expectation that we could allow them to sit there without a worry or care and to generate electricity during daylight hours for the next twenty-five years when the guarantee runs out. That they ought to be exposed to unshaded sunlight was obvious, but my early discovery that in order to achieve maximum output they need also to be rinsed periodically was an early lesson in the maintenance of solar panels. I have been more recently surprised that these two points are not fully appreciated by everyone, not even some "experts."
A really interesting report from this guy in SolCal who thought PV cells on his roof was "a great idea"
Wow, the gentleman was surprised he needed to rinse his solar panels. I suppose that when he bought a new car he would not have to wash it either.
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I read the report and it gets even funnier. He was afraid to remove grasshoppers and repair his inverter connection because it carried 350 volts DC.
There used to be a Polish joke in the pre PC days about the Poles sending an astronaut to the Sun. When people complained that the astronauts would be fried by the heat a government official explained they would travel by night.
How many volts will be flowing on a moonless night when working by flashlight? I wonder if this professor teaches logic at Cal State University Dominguez Hills?
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err...run that past me again....? "Wash his car"?
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@roger said:
I read the report and it gets even funnier. He was afraid to remove grasshoppers and repair his inverter connection because it carried 350 volts DC.
It's not the voltage that kills you. Anyway, you should know this? A man who is so good with his engineering maths?
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@tfdesign said:
err...run that past me again....? "Wash his car"?
what an absurd analogy! Where's the connection?Hmmmm. The analogy does not seem the least bit absurd to me. If the man has driven his car for years, he should have noticed the need to clean his windshield once or twice a week so he can see through the glass. Now he installs glass solar panels on the roof and is surprised by the need to rinse them. I am assuming he is an idiot. In fact, the photo of his wife climbing a ladder to hose them has me convinced. He should have dedicated sprayers.
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