Posted on 03/23/2011 7:34:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The real problem appears to be the placement of the emergency generators and their fuel tanks. If these were placed above the tsunami waters, we wouldn't be talking about this now.
Remember, these plants have been running for 40 years. There is much better technology today. There are also Thorium reactors, which we invented, and the Chinese have the wisdom to build for themselves. These plants are super safe.
Nuclear has to be part of the solution to the energy dilemma. Remember, there are those who want us (the serfs) to go back to a late 1800’s lifestyle.
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
The concept may have some potential, but at this point, there are some major technical issues that need to be overcome as well as finding a way to make the design commercially viable. One thing for sure, it is not some magic bullet.
“Okay,,, if the Brits were eatin’ Lampreys, they’re officially nutz!”
The pilgrims probably ate eel at the first Thanksgiving, too ;)
King Henry I of England is said to have died from eating “a surfeit of lampreys”.
Guess I’ll have to try them then! I’ve had Eel, just not Lampreys. Eels are really hard to clean, si I usually have the Chinese fish monger do that part.
When I was a kid at Boy Scout camp on Cape Cod, MA, someone caught an eel. We cleaned it, put it on a stick and cooked it over a campfire. It tasted like chicken.
Yeah, I’ve never had them, I just remember that they found remains of cooked eels when they did some dig at Plymouth Rock back in the 80’s or so. I tend to stay away from most seafood except fish, and I really don’t even like that much.
I go to the Chinese grocery for my fish. I can get Tilapia and eels live. They clean them, I eat ‘em! The good thing is, they don’t come from China, they come from Erie, Pa..
Yeah, seafood from China would be dodgy to say the least.
There’s a Philipino store near my work that carries all that stuff. I can smell the place from a block away if I’m downwind.
One thing I really like is that the fruit and veggies are abdo-lutely first class, and the prices are MUCH lower than in my local Giant Eagle.
I wish there was a safe way to process the waste. All we are doing now is stockpiling it. This stuff as is will be toxic for thousands of years. Just sayin’.
But expanding the grid to connect people and industry to rich, distant sources of ambient energy is also rejected by most of the greens who complained about the blog post I wrote last week in which I argued that nuclear remains safer than coal. What they want, they tell me, is something quite different: we should power down and produce our energy locally. Some have even called for the abandonment of the grid. Their bucolic vision sounds lovely, until you read the small print.Moonbat Monbiot couldn't care less about humanity's health. He's probably a Malthusian who wants more death anyhow. It's all about centralized control of energy, making masses dependent upon a few elite experts.
At high latitudes like ours, most small-scale ambient power production is a dead loss.
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