“Imagine if you could generate electricity using
nuclear power that emitted no radioactivity: it would
be the answer to the world's dream of finding a clean,
sustainable energy source.” [Quoted from sciencealert.com.au]
“Sapru estimates that a typical lithium-air battery
can offer an output of 1800 watts per kilogram compared
to about 120 to 350 watts per kilogram seen in lithium-ion
batteries” [Quoted from wired.com]
radiation fears - visiting capitol building more hazardous than
camping outside a nuclear plant
"Using United States Federal Aviation Authority
actuarial calculation methods, it is shown that over
1 in 70 Japanese workers will be killed by cancer induced
by radiation during their company health checks in a
nationwide program which subjects them to the equivalent
of over 2000 chest x-rays - more than the average dose
received by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
experiments.
“Recently I was asked to take a barium meal esophagram,
also known as a "barium swallow" or gastric
fluoroscopy. I refused after I enquired about the intensity
and dose. After a long delay, and the worrying statement
that the radiologist had to consult a book, I was told
it would be 15 millisieverts. I was told that many Japanese
companies regard gastric fluoroscopy with this, or even
higher doses, as a standard early detection test, which
is repeated annually or biannually.
“This means that Japanese workers will be exposed
to more radiation than the survivors of the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki tests, who received an average dose of
200 millisieverts.
“The single fluoroscopy is equivalent to 150
chest x-rays, and 15 times the yearly maximum exposure
allowed in the United States. It greatly exceeds the
dose received by workers at high level nuclear plants.
It is equal to the exposure received by an astronaut
in space for one month (recognized hazard). But the
energy is delivered to the most vulnerable organs of
the body in just a few minutes.” [Quoted from
ratical.org]
“Sensing the absurdity of the EPA standards,
Dr. Michael Gough and I commissioned radiation experts
to measure radiation levels in the U.S. Capitol building
and compare them with the proposed Yucca Mountain standards.
The Capitol contains a great deal of granite and marble
building materials that naturally emit the same type
of radiation as spent fuel.
“Our experts discovered that radiation dose rates
at the Roger Williams statue, located between the Rotunda
and Senate Chamber, are up to 65 times greater than
what the EPA plans to allow at Yucca Mountain.
“The radiation-dose rate at the Williams statue
also is up to 550 percent higher than the dose rate
received at the fenceline of a nuke plant, and about
13,000 times higher than the average annual radiation
dose from worldwide nuclear-energy production.”
[Quoted from foxnews.com]
35,428,250kw windmills required or one nuclear reactor
The problems of solar and wind, first
the maintainence required:
“Wind and solar installations aren’t made
by Ron Popeil. You don’t “set it and forget
it”. Other than having proverbial maids go around
and wash off those solar installations every three to
four days (which are ironically best placed in the desert),
the installations must be replaced every 20 years. All
in the face of a 60-80 year lifetime for nuclear plants.
(The lifetime promise is the same for wind turbines;
but, Danish turbines are only lasting for an average
of 16 years.)”
Next problem, the level of energy production:
“Mr. Schmidt [Google CEO] proposes a 100 mi
x 100 mi = 10,000 square mile area of solar thermal
panels will power the entire United States.”
—
“Mr. Schmidt’s proposed 10,000 square mile
solar thermal installation will reliably provide:
“18.4 sq mi / 0.312 capacity factor = 59 sq mi
per 1,000 MW.
“Therefore, 10,000 sq mi of solar thermal panels
will yield only 169,491 MW of power. [This would be]
5.1% of the energy consumption of the United States.
That’s 3,141,011 MW short.” [Quoted from
cleanenergyinsight.org]
“The focus of this shortage is a short-lived
radioisotope that most patients have probably never
heard of -- technetium-99m, the "m" standing
for metastable. With a half-life of only six hours,
the isotope allows physicians to examine bones and blood
flow, among other things, then quickly disappears from
the body, minimizing the dose of radiation received
by the patient. Because of its short half-life, the
isotope cannot be stockpiled and must be used within
a day or two after it is produced.
“Every day of the year, nearly 55,000 Americans
and tens of thousands of patients in other countries
undergo nuclear medicine tests -- such as checking for
the spread of cancer to the bones or monitoring the
flow of blood through the heart -- most of them using
technetium-99m. The radioisotope is attached to chemicals
that allow it to bind to specific sites in the body,
where it emits gamma rays that can be used to produce
an image of the area.”
“Russian authorities were reportedly warned
in 1998 that Siberia's massive Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric
power plant had fallen into serious neglect and was
unsafe, more than a decade before this week's deadly
accident.
“The death toll rose to 66 Saturday as rescuers
continued to drain the dam's destroyed turbine room
and recovered 19 more bodies amid the twisted metal
and concrete wreckage from Monday's unexplained explosion.
Nine workers were still missing from the accident, which
has highlighted the dangers of Russia's creaking infrastructure.”
“ "Many people lost track of the fact that
fuel cell cars are electric cars, since fuel cells store
and deliver electrical energy, just like batteries -
only with significantly more storable energy per unit
of weight. Batteries and ultracapacitors on the other
hand, offer more power per unit of weight, but less
storable energy" said Taras Wankewycz, one of Horizon
Fuel Cell Technologies’ founders. "Technologies
have evolved, but more importantly, Riversimple brought
them together as one system, in a way that greatly exceeds
the sum of their individual benefits. This next generation
hydrogen-electric car brings electric vehicles into
a new stage where range, charge-time and cost are no
longer commercial barriers.”
“The vehicle maximizes energy efficiency by utilizing
lightweight composite materials, eliminating heavy mechanical
components, and by networking fuel cells with ultracapacitors
and 60% regenerative braking energy into one symbiotic
system. The result is ground-breaking: 240 miles (390
km) can be traveled on one small tank of hydrogen weighing
only 2.2 lbs (1 kilogram).”
Showing the Wind Energizer. Taken
fromLeviathanflash video.
“Leviathan Energy offers a technology for new
and existing wind farms to produce more energy from
a relatively small investment.
“Leviathan Energy, using aerodynamics modeling,
has developed a unique passive structure that can be
adapted to any wind turbine from any manufacturer.
“Leviathan's technology significantly increases
the power output of existing wind turbines by cleverly
directing the surrounding wind flow to the critical
area of the blades by designing a unique structure near
each turbine.”
Computer model of Wind Energizer
doughnut;
wind coming from left, red area shows highest velocity
gain.
Image:Leviathan
no excuse not to build nuclear power plants-
the auroran sunset
Refusing to build modern nuclear power
stations as a result of the
incident at Chernobyl is like refusing to buy a new
Volvo because the Model
T wasn’t 100% safe.
Meanwhile that new Volvo, along with
the rest of the fossil fuel industry, is killing tens
of thousands of people every year in
the USA alone.
Even the most lurid estimates for Chernobyl
are only 4000 dead for a one-off incident that hasn’t
been repeated in over sixty years with hundreds of nuclear
plants running around the world.
And before someone mentions the Three
Mile Island ‘disaster’: there nothing
leaked, nobody died, the plants are still running safely
more than thirty years later.
The watermelons (green on the outside,
red on the inside) and their foolish blocking of nuclear
power are the real cause of global warming, bad air and
the consistent year-on-year death and low quality of living
that result.
Greenpeace
and their fellow travellers should be tried for conspiracy
to kill.
