Posted on 10/14/2011 2:45:42 PM PDT by blam
I’ll drink to that.....
I’ll drink to that.....
Must have something to do with underground magma passages, that ‘Jokull goes off followed by Katla when there’s a surge of that stuff.
If the energy in that magma could be tapped, it would be awesome. It would light up Iceland without even trying. We’re talking tides of molten rock here, and scarcely anything is known to man that would withstand it. Some very refractory ceramics and tungsten, and that’s about it. If for production of work (e.g. electricity) there would need to be a heat sink to dump waste heat to, out of thermodynamic necessity. Perhaps to the ocean, but the global warmists would have a kitten.
help me out here, what, where are they?
help me out here, what, where are they?
Where’s the rest of her??
I just wish we'd start working on it, I'm sure it could be done.
I'll drink to that!
I know, it'll prolly take alot of drinkin' , at risk I'm willing to take.
"Who's with me?!"
The ones that were smashed by the tsunami in Japan. Most of the contamination is confined to a small area of Japan, but it’s still a concern.
there was a special on one of the Discovery Channels the other night about Eyjafjallajokull.
Stunning in HD!!!
I suppose I thought maybe they'd be able to know if it was ...like, IMMINENT imminent, ... say, in the next 24 to 48 hours. I guess they still can't say any better than what they've already said -- which is basically, "some time within the next 12 months ..... maybe."
The plants in Japan were never intended to be able to withstand the kind of tsunami that struck them. Before the tsunami, Japan already had plans to replace these aging reactors with new reactors of a less hazardous design. The tsunami beat them to the punch.
“Eyjafjallajokull?”
Hey! “Eyjafjallajokull” is my middle name!
Just in time for the London 2012 Olympics?
of course it is............
Fukushima, Japan. The fuel has melted through the containment structures and is thought to be residing in water filled basements or have gone further down through the basements and are feared heading to the water table but nobody knows. They are generating large amounts of contaminants around the clock. And there are signs that criticality is resuming now and then (presence of short half life isotopes). The Japanese claim that they brought one molten lump of corium to ‘cold shutdown’ status because a measurement they took somewhere under the reactor read less than 100 degrees. This hasn’t stopped the reactor from releasing contaminants. Japan promises to bring all three lumps of corium to ‘cold shutdown’ status by the end of the year. http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/search/label/cold%20shutdown
What, she’s not enough?
Actually there are some reports by workers that pipes were damaged by the earthquake before the Tsunami hit. The plant was built on a seismically active area and TEPCO ignored warnings by researchers about the potential for a massive tsunami and vulnerabilities of its plant design (e.g., location of fuel tanks for back up generators) with respect to Tsunamis.
These are geologists. They think in terms of ten thousand years or more. But it could happen tomorrow. We are in a culture which expects no change and the question is whether we have lost the ability to adapt.
The ones that were smashed by the tsunami in Japan. Most of the contamination is confined to a small area of Japan, but its still a concern.
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It’s not really a small area of Japan. Officially the figure is 3% but that number will have to grow as reality sets in. Both Tokyo and Yokohama (the two largest cities in Japan) have officially acknowledged cesium and strontium contamination of samples take from roof tops and landscaping. Tea crops 245km from the plant have been heavily contaminated. The area is larger than Japan is willing to admit. I wonder what percentage of Japan the Tsunami destroyed? Prayers for the people of Japan.
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