tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post8304748550687885684..comments2024-02-20T07:06:56.933+00:00Comments on THE SKINNER: Fukushima AgainNeal Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-73596673305858338482011-03-18T21:44:17.502+00:002011-03-18T21:44:17.502+00:00cancer will be determined at a later point for the...cancer will be determined at a later point for these folks.<br /><br />tough to build a nuke plant NOT on a fault area.vaudeviewgalor raandisisraisinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045187732283895410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-78147040512528084002011-03-18T21:14:12.951+00:002011-03-18T21:14:12.951+00:00Mind you, the estimates for just how much death ha...Mind you, the estimates for just how much death has been caused by nuclear vary incredibly widely. Chernobyl, for instance, has been claimed by apparently highly respectable scientists to have caused anything from 4,000 to 985,000 deaths.<br />The figures of advocates and detractors would thus lead to very different death rates . . . <br />Personally, I think nuclear just requires too blasted many subsidies to stay afloat for me to support it. I ought to be surprised that a firm free marketeer such as Jerry Pournelle advocates a technology so utterly dependent on government support for viability.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-35948154467444803732011-03-18T17:28:05.691+00:002011-03-18T17:28:05.691+00:00The irony is a hydro-electric dam actually burst i...The irony is a hydro-electric dam actually burst in the earthquake and wiped out a village, but in all the coverage I've watched and read, I've only seen it mentioned once.Ceorlichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681060913061738237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-57216530177612073882011-03-18T01:35:00.921+00:002011-03-18T01:35:00.921+00:00Shale gas - isn't that kind of dangerous in th...Shale gas - isn't that kind of dangerous in the presence of a spark if you mix it with air? And you can't see it either - people will panic! I'm just trying to imagine what the Prador would make of all this nuclear stuff - "humans - they're still boiling water to make steam to get their energy by the most bizarre means". I was thinking about the nuke power plants they put in the Pioneer and Voyager probes - heat direct to electric but they only give a few hundred watts at most. Came on this wikipedia article on radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) - http://tinyurl.com/7tcgq. I never realised they used these on the Apollo vehicles - "Because Apollo 13 was aborted, its RTG now rests in the South Pacific ocean, in the vicinity of the Tonga Trench". Imagine if Toyota was secretly putting one of these in the back of every Prius...billdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12728714100114809760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-35683444619796151662011-03-17T21:39:34.870+00:002011-03-17T21:39:34.870+00:00death from above:
http://goo.gl/1HHUb
these '...death from above:<br />http://goo.gl/1HHUb<br /><br />these 'trees', once they get them rotating to follow the sun, will spin out of control and go on a carport, bird and hand cutting frenzy not seen on earth since..Skellor and Jain. beware solar anything. Michael <br />Bey should be on this science mayhem factoid soon enough.vaudeviewgalor raandisisraisinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045187732283895410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-12086579272968362432011-03-17T17:48:39.052+00:002011-03-17T17:48:39.052+00:00Tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/5vv7vdmTinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/5vv7vdmNeal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-2730024414610589572011-03-17T17:42:31.162+00:002011-03-17T17:42:31.162+00:00And a take on shale gas vs nuclear energy:
http://...And a take on shale gas vs nuclear energy:<br />http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/nuclear_future_and_gas/Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.com