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  • @Peter As am I. Much of what he told me of his time in Germany just sounds strange in hindsight.
    I remember being in school in the US in the 80's and being told that the Russians might obliterate us at any moment many times.
    by lillymunster 11/20/2011 5:20:33 PM

  • what shall i say ? as a berliner, we always knew if the soviets really wanted to invade us, they just had to take the tram (s-bahn) ! :)
    by Edano 11/20/2011 5:23:38 PM

  • @Edano LMAO
    by lillymunster 11/20/2011 5:33:54 PM

  • @lillymunster we grew up with sarcasm.
    by Edano 11/20/2011 5:38:53 PM

  • @Edano living with the boogeyman over our heads growing up even if it was largely just propaganda does something to your attitude about life. Sort of a live for today we might get squashed like bugs tomorrow.
    by lillymunster 11/20/2011 5:42:58 PM

  • @Edano , actually they regularly did. Remember the fabled Spandau guards of Rudolph Hess?
    by Peter 11/20/2011 5:43:42 PM

  • Future cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden www.google.com
    by Mid Valley 11/20/2011 5:43:47 PM

  • @Mid Valley Not all can be hidden. www.youtube.com
    by MaryW 11/20/2011 6:05:46 PM

  • Video link below is MIA... I have it in my personal files, sorry its unsharable.
    by MaryW 11/20/2011 6:08:05 PM

  • @Peter yes of course they did. the cold war was a big bad game. they had more spies than secrets.
    by Edano 11/20/2011 6:10:31 PM

  • The poor lady worried that an infection on her daughter's arm is a radiation burn from Fukushima fallout just posted a reply she got from Leuren Moret www.youtube.com In sight of this distraught women wrongfully worried to tears over nonexistent levels of fallout, this is what Moret said: "I would not be surprised if it is radiation burns, but it could also be something that was in the chemtrails - did you notice if there were chemtrails overhead during that week?"
    by Ian 11/20/2011 8:33:20 PM

  • @Ian Oh that was helpful../sarcasm
    by lillymunster 11/20/2011 8:33:55 PM

  • Around the Fukushima plant, a world left behind www.washingtonpost.com
    by Peter 11/20/2011 9:35:38 PM

  • Fukushima Plant Disaster Long Term Effects Still Unknown www.huffingtonpost.com
    by Peter 11/20/2011 10:55:37 PM

  • Hi all just came to say hi away in campervan having fun enjoyed reading posts
    by ElaineKirk 11/21/2011 12:18:09 AM

  • Hi Elaine!
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 12:20:15 AM

  • I just retreated a Kevin tweet not got simply on phone was hoping one of you would pick it up
    by ElaineKirk 11/21/2011 12:23:27 AM

  • @ElaineKirk will do
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 12:38:25 AM

  • Occupy METI - LOL!
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 12:40:22 AM

  • i hope the press pick it up
    by ElaineKirk 11/21/2011 12:43:47 AM

  • @all - article about occupy meti www.iol.co.za
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 12:53:38 AM

  • @lillymunster My friend who works in the wind power plant maintenance business has got back to me. He couldn't find any official studies yet but he's going to look through his archives. He'll let me know as soon as he finds something. From his 5-year-long professional experience, accidents with animals are extremely rare. In 5 years he has found only 5 or 6 dead bats by some wind turbines, all cases witnessed at the same park. Overall he has witnessed about 3 deaths from collision with wind turbines a year, always during the migration periods and only with big birds such as vultures because they are less maneuverable and this usually only happens during extreme weather conditions.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 1:08:30 AM

  • thanks. Let me know if he finds the studies.
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 1:10:07 AM

  • 80% support ending nukes 90% support renewable in JP bit.ly
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 1:31:47 AM

  • @lillymunster I went through the painstaking, 2-hour-long Thorium remix video clip. If that is Mr Sorensen's best attempt to «sell» his technology to investors, I don't think he has a future in the business. However, he was smart enough to avoid a few facts. He forgets to mention that the technology he supports has never been effectively tested. He mentions that the breeder reactors can use thorium as nuclear fuel but forgets to mention that breeder reactors are still in a prototype phase and that there are certain issues that haven't been resolved yet, such as safety issues and energy efficiency issues (the breeder reactor prototypes can't produce the energy theoretically predicted). He also forgets to mention that the first prototype thorium reactor ever built (back in the 60s in the USA) took 40 to decommission due to the high toxicity and radioactivity of the nuclear waste products. He also forgets to mention that breeder reactors have a maximum life span of only 30 years and are far more expensive to build and maintain than pressurized heavy water reactors. The decommissioning of such reactors is far more expensive than and takes about 3 to 4 times longer to achieve. And finally, he forgets to mention that the extraction of thorium is several times more expensive than the extraction of uranium. He also lies about the fact that thorium reserves will never run out... the most recent studies suggest the actual reserves would be completely depleted in not more than 1,000 years. That doesn't seem very sustainable to me, on the long run.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 2:36:02 AM

  • That's 40 years to decommission.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 2:37:29 AM

  • @Pedro - awesome work! Grabbed that all and added it to the notes on Thorium from the other day. Elaine found some questionable dealings in the Uk among these people involved in thorium promotion. The whole thing is just really quite the scam
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 2:39:37 AM

  • those facts you bring up really are impossible for them to overcome
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 2:39:57 AM

  • @lillymunster There is a big confusion around the thorium reactor affair. Most breeder prototype reactors can use thorium as a nuclear fuel, but thorium is still not cost effective. It could become a viable solution when uranium reserves are depleted which won't happen for the next century at 2008's consumption rate (which is bound to go down anyway since some countries will pull out of nuclear in the next couple of decades). These guys who support thorium reactors (the new technologies that Mr Sorensen is talking about) are only after easy money from investors. There is no reason to believe the technology will work. Breeder III and IV Generation reactors are still under research and the outcome of the current research projects around the world hasn't been very satisfactory so far, prompting most countries to abandon the projects and decommission
    the prototype reactors.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 2:59:33 AM

  • My understanding is they do not have a way yet to run just thorium, it has to be mixed with other fuels or that other fuel has to be used as feed for the thorium so it doesn't remove uranium or plutonium out of the picture
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 3:04:19 AM

  • I found their US company on the NASDAQ and it has steadily lost money since their IPO
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 3:05:07 AM

  • @lillymunster Another lie from Mr Sorensen in that video that I forgot to mention. He says that renewable energy production will never meet energy demand. That's a big lie. Here in the south of Portugal more than 80% of our energy comes from renewable sources and we're not harnessing even one tenth of the potential.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 3:09:24 AM

  • @lillymunster Uranium and Plutonium never come out of the picture because they are produced along thorium's decay chain, only the isotopes are different from those present in other sustained chain reactions. And the proposed thorium reactor design needs a start up to start the chain reaction so some energy is consumed in the first place to start the reaction, and every time you need to stop and restart you will have to consume energy in the process. The design is not so efficient as Mr Sorensen portrays. And not as safe either.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 3:14:19 AM

  • @you It's also funny the way he dismisses nuclear fusion because it is so complex... breeder reactors are also very complex, so much so that the technology hasn't yet produced enough good results for any country in the world investing in a commercial nuclear power plant with breeder reactors.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 3:17:51 AM

  • @Pedro Jesus Ironically the people who are die hard fans of this never have technical answers. They tell anyone who criticizes Sorensen etc.'s claims that they don't know what they are talking about or are so wrong they don't know where to start. :-)
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 3:20:02 AM

  • @lillymunster Well, they can't really have technical answers because the assumptions that support the use of thorium as nuclear fuel have never been successfully tested. It's only theory. For now it's no better than nuclear fusion, that Sorensen is so quick to dismiss although 34 countries have invested nearly 13 billion € (Euros) in the ITER project which is under construction.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 3:43:55 AM

  • In my opinion, if there is any future in nuclear energy, this is it: www.iter.org
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 3:47:01 AM

  • Ohio gozaimasu tomodachi
    by bo 11/21/2011 3:49:35 AM

  • @bo Olá, boa noite.
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 4:01:02 AM

  • 1600 mSv/h found inside unit 3. Some people from Okuma still think they could go home. ex-skf.blogspot.com
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 4:03:42 AM

  • I Nuclear Power Plant reached the ocean 2000 kilometers from the plant and 5000 meters deep one month after the accident. It is considered that airborne cesium particles fell on the ocean surface, and sank as they were attached to the bodies of dead plankton. The survey result was announced in a symposium held on November 20 in Tokyo.

    They have known for months and announced it now in a symposium
    ex-skf.blogspot.com
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 4:05:52 AM

  • That would have been almost half way to Hawaii by 1 month
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 4:08:14 AM

  • Read someone's weather tweet, cloudy with weak gamma ray gusts. Sigh. Ukraine puts current rad reading in with the temp for major cities on their govt. site.
    by lillymunster 11/21/2011 4:34:14 AM

  • "Chemical cleanup site in Delaware could see new life under federal renewable energy project" www.washingtonpost.com
    by Pedro Jesus 11/21/2011 5:01:49 AM

  • Bump
    by bo 11/21/2011 7:45:16 AM

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