USA’s Tea Party targeting renewable energy
Today, with the price of solar panels dropping and demand increasing, the state grants are generally less than half of what they were. Federal grants for 30 percent of a solar project remain available………..For decades, businesses that have extracted, combusted and delivered traditional fuels have received subsidies, and their prices have excluded societal impacts like air pollution in their price
Tea party activists seeing red over Delaware’s green initiatives System discouraging waste and pollution criticized as meddling with subsidized fossil fuels By AARON NATHANS • The News Journal • December 26, 2010 DOVER — They’re not exactly money, and they’re not a direct government handout.
But they are seen as the state-backed boost that solar and wind energy need to compete with power generated from fossil fuels in the coming decade. Continue reading
UK renewable energy has grown fast
Renewable energy use reaches record levels, Rapid Electronics , 24 Dec 10, The renewable energy industry made its highest ever contribution to the UK’s electricity supply during the autumn, new figures show. Continue reading
Airport radiation scanners not effective security anyway
Fears over fatal flaws in full-body airport scanners The Age Derek Kravitz, WashingtonDecember 27, 2010 US SECURITY experts have questioned the ability of full-body scanners to detect modern chemical explosives taped to a passenger’s abdomen or hidden in a cavity.The full-body scanners – planned for some Australian airports in 2011 – can detect small amounts of contraband and hidden weapons but could miss something far more deadly…… Continue reading
US uranium – to Iran, via Russia?
Wyoming uranium mines to be sold to Russians Paltalk News Network, 27 Dec 10, Selling Russia our uranium? Really? And will that uranium end up in Iran? A very serious possibility……. Strange isn’t it that now our own NRC is potentially selling the means of our destruction to our sworn enemy – Russia. According to The Gillette News Record:The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the transfer of a Canadian uranium company with soon-to-open uranium mines in the Powder River Basin to a company controlled by the Russian government……..
UK 1970s plan – Trident nuclear missiles to kill 10 million Russians
Secret files from 70s reveal Trident strike needed ‘to kill 10m Russians’, Whitehall documents written in 1970s and marked ‘personal and top secret’ show logic of British Cold War deterrent *Rob Edwards * guardian.co.uk, 26 December 2010
The British government opted for the Trident nuclear weapons system because it estimated it could kill up to 10 million Russians and inflict “unacceptable damage” on the former Soviet Union, according to secret Whitehall documents written in the 1970s. Continue reading
Positive future for renewable energy
The Future of Alternative and Renewable Energy The Blunt Blogger By Maisy Winter 26 Dec 2010 Innovation in alternative and renewable energy sources and technologies is quickly changing the face of this rapidly expanding energy sector. The United States residential use of energy is predicted to increase by 25 percent in the year 2025, predicted by the U.S. Department of Energy. Continue reading
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty – a START towards a non nuclear world
START-ing a New Security, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Rhianna Tyson Kreger: 24 Dec 10, “…………….The hugely important verification systems that START will maintain are indeed helping to build the cooperative infrastructure that a verified nuclear weapons-free world will require. Cooperating on these mutual verification checks will build trust between the US and Russia and could portend effective cooperation on other security challenges, such as nuclear terrorism or Iran.
Ratifying START also demonstrates that, despite our growing political polarization, we can still muster bipartisan cooperation on the most important matters of security, just as we’ve always done on issues of arms control. So for now let us all agree to shelve these misgivings and fortify our commitment to advancing security-enhancing disarmament, and raise a glass in solidarity with our DC colleagues: here’s to the START of renewed momentum on the Road to Prague. Rhianna Tyson Kreger: START-ing a New Security
Evidence of radiation effects in humans from atomic tests and nuclear reactors
Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), a case-control study, is the first evidence that bomb tests harmed Americans using actual levels of fallout in human bodies………..has much current relevance……….The RPHP study of baby teeth showed that Sr-90 levels in children near reactors were 30-50 percent greater than children in distant areas, and that levels were rising sharply over time, as aging reactors corrode.
Did the Atom Bomb Test Fallout Cause Cancer?, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Samuel S. Epstein, 23 Dec 10, The huge mushroom clouds from atom bomb tests of the 1950s and 1960s are an unforgettable part of the American saga. The tests were cloaked in rhetoric typical of the Cold War, i.e. they were needed to achieve “superiority” over the Soviets in the event of a nuclear war.But all the patriotic nuclear talk couldn’t prevent widespread concern that nuclear war would kill tens of millions. But many were also troubled by fallout in the mushroom clouds, which contained huge amounts of over 100 deadly radioactive chemicals that traveled through the air across the continental U.S. Precipitation brought this fallout back to earth — and into the food chain and human bodies……. Continue reading
The insane idea that a ‘limited’ nuclear war would be OK
In addition to as many fatal casualties as in World War Two, a small-scale regional nuclear exchange would damage the earth’s ozone shield, altering the global climate for at least a decade and causing severe agricultural losses with ensuing widespread famine.
The Unthinkable.THE HUFFINGTON POST, Edward Flattau, 24 Dec 10, “………….The insanity of a nuclear attack should never be diluted by the prospect of surviving in the sanctuary of one’s basement. At the very least, detonation of an atomic weapon would be a catastrophic event that would drastically change life as we know it, even if the bomb were a single primitive “dirty” weapon that incinerated only a relatively small area in the middle of a city. Continue reading
Threats of a nuclear “sacred war” from North Korea
North Korea has previously secured pledges of food aid on the back of promises over its nuclear programme.
North Korea warns of ‘sacred’ nuclear war – The National, Daniel Bardsley Dec 24, 2010, BEIJING North Korea yesterday warned it was prepared to wage a nuclear “sacred war” on its southern neighbour, as Seoul held military exercises analysts said were designed more to impress the domestic audience than to frighten Pyongyang.The North Korean armed forces minister, Kim Yong-chun, reaffirmed Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities while reading a report at a meeting in the capital yesterday, and said the country could engage in conflict “at any time”…… Continue reading
Nuclear energy industrial espionage
French police suspect industrial espionage after computers stolen from nuclear power company – Winnipeg Free Press, 24 Dec 10, PARIS – French police say thieves have stolen two computers containing confidential information from a power company’s nuclear energy research site.Police say Thursday the burglary — which was discovered by staff on Monday — took place at the Electricite de France office in Chatou west of Paris, even though it is protected by highly secure anti-theft systems. They suspect industrial espionage may be involved……French police suspect industrial espionage after computers stolen from nuclear power company – Winnipeg Free Press
Public danger in trucking nuclear wastes across U.S. States
“Truck crashes occur all the time on our highways,” Smith said. “This plan would dramatically increase the amount of radioactive waste traveling through our communities. We believe that if people know what is at stake, they will contact state officials and demand that the compact commission drop the proposal.”
Sure, Simmons May Bury Nuclear Waste in West Texas. But It Has To Get There Somehow. – Dallas News By Robert Wilonsky, Dec. 23 2010 “………While routes are not yet designated, potential routes would take waste from the Gulf Coast area on Interstate 10 through Houston and San Antonio; waste from southern states would be trucked on I-20 and I-30 though Dallas and Forth Worth; Midwestern and Northeastern waste would be driven on I-40 and I-27 though Lubbock and Amarillo; and waste from Western states would be driven though the cities of El Paso and Odessa taking I-10 and I-20, according to Martin Resnikoff of Radioactive Waste Management Associates. … Continue reading
How to get decentralised solar energy happening
New Guide to Bringing Solar to Your Community | Reuters, 23 Dec 10, If you want to develop solar projects in your community but don’t know where to start, check out this new publication from Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development…. New Guide to Bringing Solar to Your Community | Reuters
The ethical dilemma of medical radiation
much of decision-making in medicine is in the hands of individual physicians, and it is theoretically in our power to limit unnecessary procedures. But this can create a conflict between what is good for an individual patient and what is good for the health of the entire population.
Patient 1, Society 0 NYTimes.comBy DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. 24 Dec 10, If I did a CT scan for every one of my many patients with headache, I might pick up an otherwise unsuspected tumor in one of out of thousands of them. For that one patient, it would be valuable. For the many more who would have side effects from the scan — from the contrast dye or radiation, or from false positive results leading to yet more tests — it would be harmful. And when finite health care dollars get shifted to unnecessary tests — well, we all lose out eventually….. Continue reading
An agreeable START to new international politics
This level of support reaffirmed the broad consensus that our national interests are better served through global engagement, not global arrogance. International agreements, disparaged by the previous administration, are again seen as viable tools of security policy. A comprehensive approach to reducing nuclear threats has replaced nuclear whack-a-mole……….
Fresh Security Consensus Trounces Cold War Politics in New START Victory, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Joe Cirincione, 24 Dec 10, The New START treaty has obvious benefits for national security. But the overwhelming vote in favor of the treaty (71-26) has much broader significance. And the still sizable vote against it, a troubling dark side. Continue reading
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