First, a question about recent reports from Japan that the Plutonium leak at the nuclear reactors is too small to hurt anyone. I wonder just what amount of Plutonium leaking would fit such a description, in view of the fact that as little as one-millionth of a gram of this diabolical material getting into the body is enough to give a person cancer.

A fundamental human shortcoming is a lack of understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law is a Law of Nature that we cannot repeal, yet we seem to never stop trying. Why? Because the people who make the Decisions don’t understand that Law.

What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Well suppose I handed you two glasses of water, one hot and one cold, and asked you to perform the difficult trick of producing two glasses of lukewarm water. No problem you say, getting a bowl and pouring in the two glassfuls, and your mission has been accomplished. Suppose on the other hand I gave you instead two glasses of water, both lukewarm in temperature, and asked you to produce one glass of water that is hot, and one that is cold. Not quite so easy. You have to get a refrigerator and a heating source to accomplish this mission.

The same if I gave you two glasses of sand, one black and the other white. Easy to turn into a mixture of gray sand, but difficult to separate once mixed.

The Second Law applies specifically to heat, but in its more general form it also states that inanimate Nature prefers chaos or randomness to order. Nature tends to mix things up. The scientific way to say this is that in any closed system, entropy can only increase but never decrease. If somewhere entropy actually decreased by establishing a greater degree of order, then this is always done at the expense of increasing entropy somewhere else. Entropy in the Universe is constantly increasing.

Living things can indeed create a degree of order – even an amoeba is able to organize itself in a way that permits it to live. And human beings are able to create order in much more sophisticated fashion. Yes, if energy is applied to an otherwise closed system, then indeed its entropy can be decreased or its state of order increased, always of course correspondingly increasing entropy outside the closed system.

Now we humans seem to have a strong belief in our ability to establish order and keep it that way forever. We create nuclear reactors, we create the most dangerous of materials such as Plutonium, and we think we can keep those materials safely confined for the next ten thousand years. A microgram of Plutonium in one’s lungs will induce cancer. Yet we play with that material by the pound and by the ton. We forget that there are 100 year earthquakes, that there are terrorists or individuals who would be willing to kill a million people for whatever devious end they might seek. And it is the earthquakes, the baddies, and not the rest of us, that are aligned with the Second Law. If we human beings want to continue to live on this Planet, we had better start acting more nearly in consonance with the most fundamental laws of Nature.

Some people, especially those of the Energy industry, will retort with “but we need the energy.” Yes, we do need a certain amount of energy. What we really need is available from the Sun, the oceans, and the wind. Who says that we have to be driving trucks (aka “sport-utility vehicles”) around the Beltway with an average occupancy (including the driver) of 1.01? Pure madness.

If we want to go on living here, we had better learn to conserve, and we had better learn to wean ourselves from the nuclear demon we have created.

http://www.arabisto.com/article/Blogs/Eileen_Fleming/From_Hiroshima_to_Fukushima_to_US/97875

The following link is on the latest seismic events in Japan using Trend Compass:
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/japan-earthquake/

maybe an imf, world bank or wto invasion tactic?