Japan

[G-spotter]

There's also the Compressed Air storage method

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_energy_storage

 

Or treadmills with and peanuts

Edited March 15, 2011 by G-spotter

[rob]

Molten sodium thorium reactors

 

He3 fusion using lunar regolith

 

Geothermal, like the Kiwis use (and they are a small island located on a major fault line too just like the Japanese)

 

I've seen an analysis that 1000 square km of solar in Arizona could supply the energy needs of all of America. Given that climate change over the next 100 years will likely render the current population of Arizona unsustainably large due to permanent drought, this may be a wise use of the land.

 

Deep ocean thermal exchangers need to be explored in more detail. I've seen some very promising papers on the technology.

 

Has anybody studied possible climactic effects of removing that much energy from the oceanic thermal currents?

[ZimZam]

The top selling item on Amazon: potassium iodide

[j_b]

meanwhile, #4 is on fire again. Expect iodide sales to keep going up, I guess.

[prole]

 

Japan abandons stricken nuke plant over radiation

Associated Press 10 mins ago

 

FUKUSHIMA, Japan – Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility.

 

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said work on dousing reactors with water was disrupted by the need to withdraw.

 

The level of radiation at the plant surged to 1,000 millisieverts early Wednesday before coming down to 800-600 millisieverts. Still, that was far more than the average

 

"So the workers cannot carry out even minimal work at the plant now," Edano said. "Because of the radiation risk, we are on standby."

[Mal_Con]

When I was a kid we had a friend who worked at Hanford he used to bring us Zirconium turnings (for fuel rods). It looked like coarse steel wool, you could light it and it burned with a brilliant white light, once it cot started it was impossible to put out. Later when I worked at the Naval weapons center we used it as an incendiary, that area of Japan is pretty much f*cked Cesium has a half life of 30 years.

[ZimZam]

Japanese Pat Robertson

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/tokyo-governor-apologizes-for-calling-quake-divine-retribution/?hpt=C2

[G-spotter]

Power cable in place

[G-spotter]

Dummies ODing on potassium iodide in USA.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42135438/ns/health-health_care/

 

 

[pup_on_the_mountain]

A slightly different perspective.

[prole]

A slightly different perspective.

 

Another one from Paw-paw's Inbox? Bizarre. Like a psy-ops mission or something.

[prole]

Anybody read any good pieces lately about the bigger picture here? I'd be much obliged.

 

 

 

 

[prole]

[video:youtube]

[KaskadskyjKozak]

[video:youtube]

 

Wow! Cool! Got any more "questions" for us, Prole?

[prole]

Yeah, did you watch it?

[YocumRidge]

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, in the far northwestern corner of the continental United States, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.

 

 

The Western Hemisphere's Most Contaminated Place

 

Yup. Conveniently positioned UPSTREAM of Portland on the Columbia river. Oh, and by the way, we have had 19 BIG earthquakes over the last 10,000 years (~1 in 500 years, range 180-1,000 years). The last BIG one (8.7 to 9.2) took place at about 9 p.m. on January 26, 1700. We know about it because the Japanese have chronicled the arrival of a giant "orphan" tsunami (i.e. tsunami without an associated earthquake).

So, yes, come visit...

 

 

[Crux]

April 12, 2011:

LFT: Fukushima crisis on par with Chernobyl

Video: Fukushima upgrade spells lengthy crisis