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It Continues
The horror of the nuclear meltdown in Japan continues and very horridly shall continue for a long time. The above image is of protesters in Manila who want their own nuclear power plant shut down.
Last night, I started to grow infuriated at the nonsense being spewed by several news sources (Reuters and Fox especially) suggesting that there was NO PROBLEM and that the damage would be minimal. This was utter b*llsh*t and anyone who knew even rudimentary science about nuclear energy would know this. Yet, to have such "information" spew out over the airwaves is a disservice to our nation and our world.
But, realizing that there will always be manipulative people who distort science and science reality to sway the science illiterate, I forced myself to shed my fury. I am glad I was able to do this.
I do not know if there is much if anything we can do at this point for Japan and its nuclear tragedy. We will unfortunately just have to mostly sit back and wait for it to run its course and then help with the cleanup and try to send as much relief aide as we can.
Yet, for the rest of the world, I think we need to SERIOUSLY work towards an end to nuclear power. I do not mean we should shut down (impossible to do, by the way) all the nuclear power plants immediately, but what we need to do is create a plan where over the course of the next decade, all nuclear power plants will be phased out and we must support massive research and development into other forms of safer, better, alternative (non petroleum based) energy sources.
PipeTobacco
4 Comments:
Mankind has always survived many disasters and sprung back. There's too many of us anyway.
But yes, they sure do have a big mess there.
Anyway, while I bitch about the rain here I have to remind myself that it will knock that radiation down and it won't reach us.
It's not expected to reach us anyway, South America is more likely to get it.
Those poor folks sure do have a mess over there for sure. But with three or four of their paper plants down and out the Jap owned paper mill here will go into increased production so I suppose the employees here are happy to hear that.
There's sure going to be a lot of economic opportunities after things settle down. Look at all the things they are going to have to rebuild and replace.
We'd better start cutting down more trees. Trees we have, lots and lots of them, even throughout this town, it wouldn't hurt to thin them out for some money.
I've spent most of my life in the general of the Hanford Atomic area, you just have to put it out of your mind, getting rid of nuclear is going to be hard.
But lessons learned may make it safer. I'd support hydrogen for power. A plant may blow up once in a while but it would never be as bad as trouble at an atomic plant.
Have you read any of Ray Kurzweil's future predictions for nanotechnology in solar? He believes we will use solar for all future energy needs. I hope so.
nanotechnology is really cool, if we can survive that long.
On the other hand, nanotechnology can also get in the wrong hands, what humanity needs to grow is a soul.
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