All Blog Posts Tagged 'nuclear' (25)

Fukushima is Heating the Pacific Ocean

The melted reactors of Fukushima have been leaking hot water into the ocean and satellites can see the added heat. Here is "photo" depicting this.

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Ten Years of This:

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Researchers and staff at UT's Magnet Development Laboratory prepare the central solenoid mockup for the vacuum pressure impregnation process

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Imagine a world without man-made climate change, energy crunches or reliance on foreign…

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  Japan's outmoded/outdated fission-based nuclear reactors at Fukushima (Westinghouse boiling water nuclear reactor stuff) go tits up, contaminate (and continue to do so) the Earth's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…

Citing ongoing threats from nuclear proliferation, climate change, and the need to find sustainable and safe sources of energy, scientists moved the "Doomsday Clock" one minute closer to midnight on Tuesday.

The clock was moved from six to five minutes to midnight.

The clock is…

No-man's land attests to Japan's nuclear nightmare

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Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit — a 9.0-

magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a…

Wind Power:

USD$0.05/installed watt



Nuclear Power:

USD$1.50/installed watt





Generating energy from wind turbines at sea would be cheaper than building new atomic power plants, Europe's climate chief has said, in the latest challenge to the crisis-stricken nuclear industry.



Connie Hedegaard, the EU climate change commissioner, said: "Some people tend to believe that nuclear is very, very cheap, but offshore wind is cheaper than nuclear. People…

Tepco Names 36-Year Veteran as New President

Letter Opposing MO Sen Robin Wright-Jones Nuclear Agenda- as posted at: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2011/04/letter-opposing-mo-sen-robin-wright.html

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…

It is time we got back on track at the Pickens Plan. T. Boones vision was bring us together, but we seem to be all over the map.

I seem to recall some scriptural refernce to waging war that advises the consideration of cost associated with such endeavors. The following URL references current cost for projects that are currently under construction and due for completion.…

I've been doing some thought experiments and calculations on using the spent nuclear fuel we are storing in salt mines at temperatures around 60 degrees fahrenheit and incorporating a system using an optimized thermocouple that has one end in the coldest area of the salt mine and the other end near the hottest decaying area of the spent and decaying fuel. Using the right materials and scaling factors an electric current can be generated and stored in a capacitor bank coupled to a properly…