All Blog Posts Tagged 'japan' (4)

and how fitting that Japanese tsunami debris washes up on U.S. shores yesterday.  So symbolic.  Japan's outmoded/outdated fission-based nuclear reactors at Fukushima (Westinghouse boiling water nuclear reactor stuff) go tits up, contaminate (and continue to do so) the Earth's atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean with radioactive material, and these two balls from Japan show up on U.S. shores....like "the balls in our court" or something! What's our energy game plan now?  And don't tell me it's…

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Tepco Names 36-Year Veteran as New President

Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s choice of a 36-year company veteran to resolve the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl and avert bankruptcy prompted calls for the government to take a more direct role in managing the utility.



Tepco, as the company is called, on May 20 picked Toshio Nishizawa, 60, to replace Masataka Shimizu, who resigned following a… Continue

Now, we're facing another  head of the fossil fuel/nuke hydra:  Japan's Nuclear Meltdown.   Is it all about greed for money or is there ANY sustainability and utility in what these demons of power do (coal, oil, nuclear)?   We've seen the price of life devalued to a new low...EVEN here in the States.  Massey Coal sold themselves to survive litigation and possibly criminal prosecution.  BP replaced its CEO and now, with respect to deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico,  only buys…

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Susan Kraemer, Gas2.org, November 29th, 2009



Posting note: The first few paragraphs may have more politics than useful information. Endure and read further. I can only hope that we haven't traded valuable assets for empty promises but it sounds like we might be getting some good technology.



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What a humiliating failure the President’s Asian trip was. Not only did the President make the… Continue