saveliberty
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Life imitates art. I'm waitng for Godzilla.
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The OP promised me a treat. I am of course, profoundly disappointed.
Renewable energy in the north-west: Tilting at windmills | The Economistclean energy is wasted money?
only til it gets up and running... then it becomes more cost efficient.
i'm wondering why you have a vested interest in doing things that actively destroy our environment. i'd think you'd want to maximize our safety. as a parent, i know i do.
Very interesting point here. In Oregon, we have built enough wind turbines that now we have to idle some of them at times because of the excess amount of electricity produced. Even as other areas of the nation are short of electricity. We desperately need to start building a real national grid. And connect it to the areas that have high energy density potential.
Interesting point, you are full of shit.
Renewable energy in the north-west: Tilting at windmills | The Economist
More people were killed last year in refinery and mining accidents than have been killed by nuclear accidents in the entire history of nuclear power. Claiming that fossil fuel is safer than nuclear power is like arguing that the Earth is flat.
I would usually agree with you on this QW, yet 25 years later no one seems to want to live in Chernobyl and I would not want to live close to TMI even though other reactors are operating, something about human error and a material we have very limited control over...
I like the "Flat Earth" retort, very good...but you want to ignore the fact that these areas are destroyed beyond many, many life times...
That would be like putting your head in the sand...
let me specify.
accidents last year in the US are higher than the worlds nuclear accidents since conception.
Nuclear power is the safest, permanent alternative fuel but is regulated into oblivion by the poorly informed.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have released twice as many radioactive particles than Japan’s government estimated, the utility said in a report today.
Kissmy?
I certainly hope the typo in the thread title was a typo and not intentional. I have to believe it is because I have never felt you were a racist.
Please tell me you missed the 'h' in threat and you were not insinuating that the destruction of half of the nation of Japan is a treat for the rest of humanity!
treat in place of threat?
Immie
Spikes in radiation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster were below cancer-causing levels in almost all of Japan, but infants in one town appear to be at a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Nearly 16,000 people were killed in the earthquake and the tsunami and 3,300 remain unaccounted for.
The areas estimated to have received the highest doses of radiation were Namie town in Futaba county and Iitate village in Soma county, northwest of the stricken plant, the report said.
Infants in Namie were thought to have received thyroid radiation doses of 100-200 mSv, it added. The thyroid is the most exposed organ as radioactive iodine concentrates there and children are deemed especially vulnerable.
"That would be one area because of the estimated high dose that we would have to keep an eye on," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Reuters. "Below 100 mSv, the studies have not been conclusive."
Populations exposed to radiation typically stand a greater chance of contracting cancers of all kinds after receiving doses above 100 mSv, according to the United Nations agency. The threshold for acute radiation syndrome is about 1 Sv (1000 mSv).
The World Health Organization yesterday released a report estimating residents of Fukushima prefecture outside of the no- go zones were exposed to relatively low doses of radiation between 1 millisievert to 10 millisieverts. In prefectures neighboring Fukushima, the dose is estimated between 0.1 millisieverts to 10 millisieverts and the rest of Japan may have got as much as 1 millisieverts, it said.
Cumulative exposure to 100 millisieverts raises the risk of death from cancer by 0.5 percent, according to Japans National Institute of Radiological Sciences.