Our birds of prey always come home to roost, be they shoddy business practices,killer drones, demobbed our troopians or al qui ida cells, molecules and free floating radicals..
America...(sic) a long tradition of atomic intervention in Japan
GE designed reactors and engineers who resigned in protest
Japan Atomic Industrial Forum....... the gallant efforts of the Hari Kiri squad spitting valiantly on 6 melting reactor cores and trying to fill up the leaking swimming pools of spent and exposed radiation spewing rods.
Toshiba Corp buys British owned Westinghouse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/jan/24/nu...
Thou shall reap
what Dow has sown
Let US prey to mon santo ah men
Posted by Robert.Wagner.VT
Mar 16 2011 - 12:22am
The real question is, will the 'antinuclear' governor put his money where his mouth is? The Legislature have the power to shut Yankee down TODAY, but won't move unless the governor leads.
The magnitude of this catastrophe makes me think Mother Nature had help such a HAARP,- to cause the Quake and the Hugh Tsunami.
It's sad that there are some that do not value human life , just like what happened Haiti or Katrina.
Posted by sigsep
Mar 30 2011 - 10:01pm
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.
The following link is on the latest seismic events in Japan using Trend Compass:
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/japan-earthquake/
Posted by samosamo
Mar 11 2011 - 10:54pm
maybe an imf, world bank or wto invasion tactic?
Posted by samosamo
Mar 12 2011 - 11:41pm
The missing comments may be due to the revolving messaging that is coming in to his particular post.
But yes, this is another lesson in what Naomi Klein spoke of just recently on 'democracy, now! as part of disaster capitalism shock doctrine and the coverage would certainly not be to o's advantage but now it should be a moot point now, every msm channel is showing what is happening at reactor 1 or 3, the one where the explosion's shock wave is seen for less than a half a second leaving the reactor building.
It would be fantastic to have this event to bring to mind the insanity of continually building more nuclear power plants and especially in vulnerable places where nature will again teach humans to stop fooling around.
And this is now said on usatoday, cnn, msnbc, it is a partial meltdown as of now.
Really good in that maybe we won't have to tell our children's children's children that 'it is their problem so you can fix it'.
Posted by US FIRST
Mar 12 2011 - 4:15pm
Solid post TJ. It is interesting to see how the MSM / Obamabots are already attempting to spin this one. No matter what the obvious and overwhelming facts are, they will insist that we believe their parade of pro-nuclear-plants-are-safe pundits...not our lying eyes.
Posted by hypewaders
Mar 15 2011 - 7:06pm
It is nothing less than spin, for Common Dreams to prominently bill Fukushima 1 as a "Nuclear Catastrophe" "devastating Japan". It is not merely insensitive to give higher billing to nuclear fear-mongering, than to the staggering loss of life that is still unfolding in Japan.
Trafficking in fear, even for the sake of a commendable cause, is still a dishonesty.
There will be many lessons to learn from this- Some will help further improve the safety of nuclear power. Other lessons learned will much enhance the credibility and persuasiveness of progressives and friends of Earth, who understand that we are a world in transition to sustainability, with reason (not spin) our best standard and guide.
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Show AllOur birds of prey always come home to roost, be they shoddy business practices,killer drones, demobbed our troopians or al qui ida cells, molecules and free floating radicals..
America...(sic) a long tradition of atomic intervention in Japan
GE designed reactors and engineers who resigned in protest
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/GEScientistQui....
http://www.benzinga.com/news/11/03/930863/dangers...
Japan Atomic Industrial Forum....... the gallant efforts of the Hari Kiri squad spitting valiantly on 6 melting reactor cores and trying to fill up the leaking swimming pools of spent and exposed radiation spewing rods.
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/index.php
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENG...
TEPCO and Toshiba want to build their plants in US! Makes as much sense as anything else in this country
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread674365/...
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Toshiba_...
Toshiba Corp buys British owned Westinghouse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/jan/24/nu...
Thou shall reap
what Dow has sown
Let US prey to mon santo ah men
The real question is, will the 'antinuclear' governor put his money where his mouth is? The Legislature have the power to shut Yankee down TODAY, but won't move unless the governor leads.
Lead, Mr. Shumlin, the day is yours.
http://senatorwagner.com/2011/03/shut-down-yankee-now/
The magnitude of this catastrophe makes me think Mother Nature had help such a HAARP,- to cause the Quake and the Hugh Tsunami.
It's sad that there are some that do not value human life , just like what happened Haiti or Katrina.
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.youtube.com/watch?v=qpa8f3Q8eds&feature=related
http://www.arabisto.com/article/Blogs/Eileen_Fleming/From_Hiroshima_to_Fukushima_to_US/97875
It is heartbreaking to see and hear.
Was it an Earthquake or something more????
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?
The missing comments may be due to the revolving messaging that is coming in to his particular post.
But yes, this is another lesson in what Naomi Klein spoke of just recently on 'democracy, now! as part of disaster capitalism shock doctrine and the coverage would certainly not be to o's advantage but now it should be a moot point now, every msm channel is showing what is happening at reactor 1 or 3, the one where the explosion's shock wave is seen for less than a half a second leaving the reactor building.
It would be fantastic to have this event to bring to mind the insanity of continually building more nuclear power plants and especially in vulnerable places where nature will again teach humans to stop fooling around.
And this is now said on usatoday, cnn, msnbc, it is a partial meltdown as of now.
Really good in that maybe we won't have to tell our children's children's children that 'it is their problem so you can fix it'.
Solid post TJ. It is interesting to see how the MSM / Obamabots are already attempting to spin this one. No matter what the obvious and overwhelming facts are, they will insist that we believe their parade of pro-nuclear-plants-are-safe pundits...not our lying eyes.
It is nothing less than spin, for Common Dreams to prominently bill Fukushima 1 as a "Nuclear Catastrophe" "devastating Japan". It is not merely insensitive to give higher billing to nuclear fear-mongering, than to the staggering loss of life that is still unfolding in Japan.
Trafficking in fear, even for the sake of a commendable cause, is still a dishonesty.
There will be many lessons to learn from this- Some will help further improve the safety of nuclear power. Other lessons learned will much enhance the credibility and persuasiveness of progressives and friends of Earth, who understand that we are a world in transition to sustainability, with reason (not spin) our best standard and guide.