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Rick Kisa
We can do this and what is missing is only the will. Germany's new solar gadget, which has been dveloped in less than one year - after fulushima, produces electricity equivalent to 20 nuclear plants!!!!! <http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUKBRE84P0FI20120526 > Germany is already positioning itself as the clean energy partner of choice.
Posted in: No nukes
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Rick Kisa
Necessity is the mother of invention and where there is a will, there is a way. Look at Germany for instance; after Fukushima incident Germany, with even no earthquake and tsunami scares, closed several nuclear plants and launched an innovation hub for renewables and the result? Germany's new solar gadget produces electricity equivalent to 20 nuclear plants!!!!! <http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUKBRE84P0FI20120526 > Germany is already positioning itself as the clean energy partner of choice. Where is Japan in the innovation space for renewables, which is tomorrow's energy business of choice? Nuclear electricity has no future.
Posted in: No nukes
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Rick Kisa
Then why promote some unpredictable, uncontrollable, risky business you cannot understand when things go wrong? Why not try alternatives? Necessity is the mother of invention and where there is a will, there is a way. Look at Germany for instance; after Fukushima incident Germany, with even no earthquake and tsunami scares, closed several nuclear plants and launched an innovation hub for renewables and the result? Germany's new solar gadget produces electricity equivalent to 20 nuclear plants!!!!! <http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUKBRE84P0FI20120526 > Germany is already positioning itself as the clean energy partner of choice. Where is Japan in the innovation space for renewables, which is tomorrow's energy business of choice?
Posted in: Edano says he didn't deliberately mislead public about extent of nuclear crisis
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Rick Kisa
the minister said
this only means the poor guy is also not sure. I hear he only visited the corner specifically spruced for his visit. He did not go to the bulged side! secondly, the authentic source of safety and security information should come from a group of mixed skills experts(hydrologists, seismic experts, geologists, nuclear physicists, chemists, etc), not a lonely politician
Posted in: Hosono visits Fukushima No. 4 reactor amid concern over fuel pool
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Rick Kisa
Germany's new solar gadget produces electricity equivalent to 20 nuclear plants!!!!! Where is Japan in the innovation space for renewables, which is tomorrow's energy business of choice? http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUKBRE84P0FI20120526 This was done after fukushima when Germany shut down many of its nuclear rectors. Neccesity is the mother of invention and where there is a will, there is a way.
Posted in: Japan eyes 15% of electricity needs from nuclear power
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Rick Kisa
@vinnyfav
You are right. and where there is a will, there is a way. Look at Germany with even no earthquake concerns, they shut down 8 very good nuclear reactors after fukushima incident and the rest will go off-line soon. And what has been the result. Innovation has taken over, with Germany producing the first ever solar plant to produce electricity equivalent to 20 nuclear plants!!! read: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUKBRE84P0FI20120526 Japan even has better potential if combined with energy from the sea. The problem is that there is no will to go for the renewables yet whether japan likes it or not, renewables are the future, not nukes and Germany is already positioning itself as the clean energy innovator of choice
Posted in: Japan eyes 15% of electricity needs from nuclear power
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Rick Kisa
if companies that are the biggest consumers and the people generally dont support nuke electricity, why is government giving mixed messages about future energy options? Whose interests does government want to serve? The simple formula is that big companies should operate at night or produce their additional electricity during day. Dont be deceived by the 15%....who will be monitoring whether it is 15% or original 30%? soon the 15% will be increased giving reasons such as " nobody expected Japan to grow at this rate" . I think the trick being tried now is to dangle some figure to reassure the sceptics that they are considering reducing reliance to nuke electricity. The fact is that government is bent on its nuke electricity pathway for posterity against people's wishes!!!!
Posted in: Japan eyes 15% of electricity needs from nuclear power
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Rick Kisa
A single event such as olympics should be no reason to switch on nukes. please. please...
Posted in: IOC chief: Japan must solve power shortage to host Games
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Rick Kisa
Lucky that the earthquake epicentre was 107 km away from the nearest nuclear plant and 40km deep. If it was at shallow depth and directly under any nuclear plant, the story would have been different. Japan should realise the precarious condition it is in under the contant threat of monstrous earthquakes and stop promoting nuclear electricity
Posted in: M6.1 earthquake shakes northeastern Japan
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Rick Kisa
Whatever....! What the people expect is that now government can smoothly handle compensation claims, resettlements, cleaning up and winding up nuke business. They do not want a return to nuke electricity as it is risky, dirty, expensive and environmentally bad. They do not even trust government to ensure safety and security of nukes.
Posted in: Gov't to control up to 76% of TEPCO voting rights
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Rick Kisa
You can deceive people sometimes but not all the times. At last we have some citizens ready to stand their ground regardless of the pressure from the profit minded companies and their political cronies
Posted in: Hosono fails to convince Kansai leaders on restart of Oi reactors
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Rick Kisa
Even without tsunami, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake is strong enough to cause significant damage to a nuclear plant if it happens at a shallow depth directly under it. Fingers crossed that this does not ever happen again.
Posted in: 2 quakes jolt northeast Japan
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Rick Kisa
What a careless statement!! The finding should be taken seriously as fomaldehyde can kill and there are many ways it can be ingested by human beings. It is usually used in mogues or research laboratories to embalm dead bodies. it is also used extensively in construction, the reason why at times people feel nausia on entering new buildings, especially when there is moisture. The amount found (maybe acidentally) is way above normal and anything can happen. In EU, any product having famaldehyde higher than 0.05 % has to have a special label with several reasons why as this is considered high. Residents should watch out for signs of vomiting, nausea, uneasiness and unexplained fatigue. For instance, after an earthquake hit Sichuan, China, a large number of survivors were housed in trailers made with medium-density fiberboard that emitted up to 5 times China's maximum allowable formaldehyde levels. In April 2009, 100 miscarriages were recorded in this community, which may have been linked to exposure to high levels of formaldehyde found in the trailers used for housing after the disaster. Read more on
Posted in: Water supply cut in Chiba, Saitama due to toxin contamination
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Rick Kisa
Suicides is one of the unsung effects of TEPCO's poor safety and security measures that resulted into the meltdown due to tsunami, leading to nuclear radiation and waste leakage to live with for thousands of years, displacements of people, etc. Nuke electricity is expensive, dirty, unsustainable, unethical and socially and environmentally suicidal.
Posted in: Man files lawsuit against TEPCO following wife's suicide
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Rick Kisa
Stop being alarmist, you! Japan's banks posted profits and Japan's economy is rebounding big time, according to the latest figures, despite the energy deficiencies. All large electricity consumers should be required to produce some of their electricity just as what is in USA where bloom technology fires all big companies. This is all what is required, otherwise Japan can have enough electricity to go around without the expensive, dirty, risky, unsustainable and environmentally suicidal nuke electricity.
Posted in: Gov't unveils power-saving plan to avoid blackouts for summer
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Rick Kisa
A reminder, just a reminder for those eager to switch on he nuclear reactors that anything can happen; an earthquake much bigger than this can happen directly under a nuclear plant.
Posted in: M4.8 quake jolts Kanto region
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Rick Kisa
Reasons WWF International, the global conservation organisation is strongly opposed to nuclear energy are as follows. you therefore go for nuclear energy at your peril as teh quote answers all your questions, including jobs, greenhouse gases, costs, etc, etc: http://wwf.panda.org/whatwedo/footprint/climatecarbonenergy/energysolutions/nuclearpower/
Solutions to energy-related problems such as global warming can only deliver long-term benefits if they reduce instead of merely displace humanity’s damaging impacts on the environment. Nuclear energy is still unsafe – for both humans and nature. The argument that the world should re-embrace nuclear power is seriously flawed. Replacing fossil fuel fired power stations with nuclear energy simply replaces one fundamental environmental problem with another. It is clear that nuclear power remains particularly dangerous and difficult to control. This has been demonstrated by the accidents at Chernobyl, Russia, in 1986 and at Tokaimura, Japan, in 1999. WWF believes that nuclear power is not a sustainable source of energy because it is a huge safety risk: The entire commercial chain of the processing of nuclear raw materials from nuclear mining; operating nuclear power stations; handling nuclear waste and finally re-processing, is full of leaks and contamination and produces a highly toxic legacy for thousands of years to come. The creation and handling of highly toxic nuclear products and the unsolved issue of safe storage of waste demonstrates the unsustainability of the technology. There are also primarily economic reasons that prevent nuclear from being a viable alternative to combat climate change: Investment in nuclear power projects can drain badly-needed funds from energy efficiency and renewable energy programmes, most of which have substantially lower specific greenhouse gas abatement costs than nuclear energy. Nuclear technology does not create incentives for energy savings. It is a ‘base-load’ technology whose energy output runs continuously and cannot be adjusted to specific consumer and industrial demand. Focusing on nuclear power will block innovation in the power supply sector and in demand side efficiency. It has an opportunity cost that is even bigger than the actual - huge - investment: It needs to maintain large and inefficient power grid systems. It displaces investment in more efficient small-scale power supply and energy services. It limits employment opportunities to highly specialised staff in a very capital-intensive industrial sector.
Nuclear energy is more expensive compared to other energy supply options in most if not all cases. This is one of the main reasons why no new nuclear reactors - except one in Finland - are presently planned or under construction in the OECD until about 2010. Most of the power utilities with nuclear stations either receive direct or indirect subsidies from the state (such as British Energy in the UK, EdF in France). Expansion of nuclear power in many developing nations is sometimes a smokescreen to allow access to military nuclear raw materials. Global expansion of nuclear energy is, therefore, highly likely to breach or undermine compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Conclusion WWF does not believe that nuclear power is the solution to global warming. In fact, WWF has a vision for the future which phases out the use of fossil fuel and nuclear in the share of energy use across the globe. This is both possible and necessary in order to ensure an environmentally sound, secure and peaceful future.
Posted in: Oi assembly agrees to restart 2 reactors
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Rick Kisa
Neccessity is the mother of invention. The new normal is that Japan is surviving without the much touted nuclear plants functioning. Japan has not stopped functioning! The world has not ended! The focus should now be on better ways to survive without electricity from nukes. It has proven expensive, dirty, unsustainable, environemtally suicidal and unethical.
Posted in: Manufacturers fear summer meltdown due to power cuts
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Rick Kisa
Neccessity is the mother of invention. The new normal is that Japan is coping relatively well without the much touted nuclear plants functioning. Japan has not stopped functioning! The world has not ended! The focus should now be on better energy mixes to survive without electricity from nukes. It has proven expensive, dirty, unsustainable, environemtally suicidal and unethical.
Posted in: Kansai facing 20% power shortage
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Rick Kisa
So, with such razor sharp predictions, how come these intelligent scientists did not detect the Fukushima incident? As somebody said, it is better to assume that the whole of Japan is sitting in dangerous earthquakes that can happen anytime, and therefore not suitable for nuclear plants, especially the old faulty ones littered all over Japan
Posted in: Researchers to check faults beneath Tsuruga reactors