even if the pacific ocean were glowing and spitting out three-headed squid they would still hew to the party line.

nice catch CH!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

and keeping focus on the young, who need to do what i did then now, with more force and wisdom.

tonight's part of me is so sad.

Ach, i forgot to post what i wrote in reply to one of the Hansen articles, in my hometown rag SanFran Chron.

Once more reputable scientists ignore the evidence right in front of them, that renewables have already scaled up enough to show how quickly and efficiently it can be done. There are more than 300,000 MW of wind alone around the globe, and the supply chain is already built. Even for offshore wind, a new technology demanding both a new heavy industry supply chain and significant investment, has already shown it can also be done efficiently. With all due respect, Mr. Hansen, analyze what's already existing before you propagandize it can't be done. (And did you once think through the necessary supply chain for heavy nuclear, which is far harder to achieve than the modular renewables. Further, please try to find non-government supported finance for ever more cost-overruns in the current industry, as in the European EPRs, because you can't. That's why the UK just allowed China to finance its new nukes.)

Another obvious sign is the recent mass migration of radioactive debris the size of California across the Pacific Ocean. BBC News in the U.K. reported last year that literally millions of tons of radioactive debris had begun traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and that some of it had already impacted Hawaii and even the West Coast. There has also been a series of strange animal deaths recently, including masses of sea lions, sockeye salmon and other sea creatures washing up on the shore. Many of the polar bears, seals and walruses observed along the Alaska coastline have also been found to have major fur loss and open sores, both of which are indicative of radiation poisoning. Then we have the scientific reports that claim radioactive water will continue to impact the U.S. West Coast for many years to come, potentially doubling in strength over the next five or six years. Plankton, bluefin tuna and other sea life collected between Hawaii and California are already testing high for radiation, and these levels are expected to continue increasing.

Natural Cures Not Medicine: 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Contaminated With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima

1. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores...

Wildlife experts are studying whether fur loss and open sores detected in nine polar bears in recent weeks is widespread and related to similar incidents among seals and walruses. The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had "alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions," the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement.

2. There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline...

At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die.   It's gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an "unusual mortality event."

3. Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low.  Many are blaming Fukushima. 4. Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs. 5. A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast. 6. It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast could double over the next five to six years. 7. Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast. 8. One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima. 9. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada... * 73 percent of mackerel tested * 91 percent of the halibut * 92 percent of the sardines * 93 percent of the tuna and eel * 94 percent of the cod and anchovies * 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish

TEPCO are eco-terrorists. people who still believe nuclear power is viable after fukushima are delusional, and those engaging in the propaganda this diary describes shills for the most evil forces on the planet.

meanwhile, back at rancho realidad, political dialogues still mostly bickering about trivia and snickering about how easy it is to gull the public, if the lies you dare tell them are big and dastardly enough.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

 France really does have much lower emissions per capita than Denmark does, despite having more heavy industry and  Denmark being routinely held up as the paragon of renewable power, and the toxin load of danish coal use kills, mutates, and maims people year after year, and mercury and dioxin have no halflives.

Simply put - there are poisons other than radioactives, and they will kill you just as dead. They will kill more of your descendants, because they last longer.  

So there is an argument for going one hundred percent nuclear right now. Because that will be safer - relatively - than what we are doing.

Do you want to know the real argument against it? The one that stops investors? It is very simple.

Nuclear is not to cheap to meter. Nor is it as expensive as the lies its opponents tell would have you believe. Given current interest rates, it costs slightly less than coal does. Heck, it costs a lot less than what coal is projected to cost in the future.

 But the money almost all have to be paid up front, and repayment comes over the very long projected life of the plant. Run it for 20-25 years - your loans are paid. Run it for 40, you are deep in the green. The EPR is built to last 60. No brain investment, right?

Wrong. Because if in five, or in fifteen years General Fusion starts selling power plants that cost half of what coal does instead of slightly less? All your billions of hardware are relics of industrial history. And you are bankrupt. Nuclear investment is extremely vulnerable to technological shock.

And just to make things worse? It is every bit as vulnerable to technological shock from itself.

Imagine that in 8 days a hypercane sweeps through the midvest, doing billions in damage, killing tens of thousands, and incidentally - wrecks all the windmills. Reeling with shock, congress decides to build 400 storm-hardened nuke plants and shut down the coal and gas sectors. Is this good news for the existing operators of nukes? No, Because being built in series production by the army corps of engineers makes the "National Emergency Reactors" cheap. So all the existing nuke plants go bankrupt.

If yo[ure wondering if eye try to represent my selves here as a reputable persons, given the way reputable peoples are these days, my handlers, located deep in the Swiss Alps, have me forbidden to attempt reputable, despite my reputableness.

they ptolmy it has gotten that far.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

Using a bit less tact, Hansen told the AP: "They're cheating themselves if they keep believing this fiction that all we need" is wind and solar.

In the past six months, we've lost some 1800 jobs here in Bremen/Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven alone. If you count Hamburg, nearly an entire 45 minutes away, we've lost another 700.

Please, do not expect me to be rational. Rational can my ass kiss.


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

The box I live in has lots of roof area and a big sunny south-facing side. We often get pretty good wind. There is some dirt I could drill way deep into to harvest the temperature differential. I am happy to share my car, my daughter has already gone carless, and the friend-technology business seems to be developing along lines which will surely expedite car-sharing. With 75% of the cars in the non HOV lanes every morning, there seems a lot of potential there. I live at the bottom of a hill, and with a big enough water-tank, I could harvest enough winter rain flow to irrigate my garden all summer. Sunday I attended a meeting about solar cooking, which I can easily do on  my deck.

Every day it becomes more possible both practically and economically to live off the grid.

As of yet, I haven't found live coverage anywhere, even on the illegal UEFA sites.

(Posted for clarities sake on two competing diaries, to add to the page views, and spark interest in the match of the century.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

Every stage of the project has been painstaking and potentially dangerous. Dismantling the reactor chimney, one of the trickiest jobs, is due to commence this month and must be finished before the onset of Ukraine's ferocious winter when temperatures reach -25C. Chimney sections weighing up to 55 tons each, full of radioactive soot and dust, will be cut off with a plasma cutter by teams of two men and removed by crane. Lifting out the sections will be nerve-racking: if a crane fails, or an operator miscalculates, and a section falls into the reactor, a new cloud of radioactive dust could be released into the atmosphere.

The problem of dismantling and removing the reactor and its dangerous contents are the reason for the huge size of the Arch; it must accommodate giant cranes in a sealed area, where work can be done without radioactive dust getting out.

However, Philippe Casse, 61, the site manager, who has worked on the project since 1998, admitted that even after the Arch is finished, it may still be decades before the mess inside can finally be removed. "There is no money at the moment," he said. "Perhaps it can be done in 50 years when the right technology is developed."

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'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin