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50 comments // The Future of Nuclear Power

  • Vierotchka
  • ClintForObama
  • Vierotchka
  • circlesquared
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      circlesquared  
    • 100 years ago a man named Tesla developed the means to pull energy from the magnetic field at anytime and in any amount. His designs were ridiculed than bought by JP Morgan never to be talked about again...unless you are military. Wake up to the truth of our misdirection and deception... the same few still decide what we do with our knowledge and it's not for the gain of humanity. We could be free to pursue happiness, but we are not.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • circlesquared:

      You're correct, but in a sense also incorrect. Tesla, Edison and JP Morgan all suffered the same disease => they wanted answers to be LARGE. Small nuclear plants could probably be made 100% Safe.

      Much like Mr. Fusion: the flux capacitor shown in the movie Back to the Future was so lightweight it allowed for cars to fly.

      LARGE means MISTAKES because they exceed the ceiling. It's caused by Greed, the greed of a super-ego most males suffer from. The size of their greed supercedes them from looking closer and seeing where a system runs into a natural self-destruct point. That's what I call the ceiling.

      My energy sources & engines have ceilings also, but that's also a Good Thing because inside the basement and the ceiling is the proverbial SWEET SPOT where they have Maximum Efficiency.

      Larger systems such as nuclear power plants can go bad, as we have seen, so they must have exhaustive control systems, and when the total system reaches a certain level of Complexity, that's their Ceiling. That's the point where when they malfunction the malfunction affects major areas and oceans.

      The Italian chemists, their cold fusion systems are smaller I think, so they have shown themselves willing to admit a celiling has to be observed. Americans want the Big Answer, such as the Space Shuttles were. Big tech-stuffed systems need to be pared down to the correct sizes, then they would probably be less dangerous.

    • 4 months ago
  • circlesquared
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      circlesquared  
    • Gravity_Man:

      good point Gman...Tesla just wanted to build radiant towers though so anyone, anywhere could just pull the energy when needed right from the "air" and apply it as need be...free the people. Not part of the vision the few share...he was one of us and died poor and discredited for his efforts and genius.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • circlesquared:

      OK, but doesn't "anyone, anywhere" still mean everyone everywhere? He went for the Big Answer and got shot down flying too close to the sun.

      My efforts have all been centered on Home-size Answers but I was easily shot down too by already being the same Poor Tesla ended up with.

      My answer is correct. His was wrong. He had the first ball advantage on the field and lost it for himself and everyone who followed him. Had he "kept it under his hat" and just built a few small ones, and got them "out there" being used, we would have his system all over the World today instead of Windmills.

      I like Tesla, but my like of Tesla does not cloud my assessment of what went wrong that landed us where we are now today. He under-estimated his opponent.

      I did the same thing in 1989 when I submitted my system of powering the planet from lightning, by sending it to the US Department of Energy. They shot my idea down and it went into their big underground box with Tesla's stuff, and Floyd Sweet's V.T.A..

      The Wright Brothers were allowed to pass. The lady who invented White-Out was allowed to pass. A few young kids nowadays are allowed to pass. But THE GOLD REMAINS THEIRS.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • circlesquared:

      I do not mean to be overly blunt or abusive! You're welcome to have your high views of Tesla of course! We inventors have a Big Idea and it doesn't occur to us that someone would want to stop them from helping everyone, until it's too late.

      Inventors are kept separate from each other many times also, so like sheep wandered from the main flock we are easily dispatched... by the wolves who are generally IDEALESS and JEALOUS of having nothing to contribute... filled with hate needing to subjugate those who have what they cannot, and likely never will.

      Thievery is all they have. Wolves are empty shells.

      It's rather similar to the Endomorph vs Mesomorph hatred also... where the thinner men are jealous of the more rotund man who has "stature". However, the fact of the matter is that the well-fed man has an increased blood supply to the brain which means also MORE OXYGEN & NUTRIENTS TO POWER HIS BRAIN TO INVENT.

      In that Tesla is a true Standalone man because he was both!!!

      Tesla was the thin handsome man yet his brain possessed the awesome power of the heavy thinker type man, an accomplished Endomorph who excelled over all others. Tesla was not only an inventor with ideas like myself he was much more than that. He understood the laws & electrical formulae needed for his inventions to work, which is something I sorely lack due to all my illnesses having interfered. I only have the ideas and General Principles, not that they are slouches as they are not. In 2004 I had IMITATION ENERGY named, later calling it also "Physics Fuel".

      Tesla had the glory of a new star.

      We should be basking in the Light off of the Tesla Star.
      We should be basking in the Light off of the Tesla Star.
      We should be basking in the Light off of the Tesla Star.
      We should be basking in the Light off of the Tesla Star.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • circlesquared:

      Tesla left some notes that I accidentally came across online in the Fall of 2007. He designed a one-man flying craft he claimed could fly without fuel. I have a tentative way for that to work => it used pulsed lightning.

      We could've been making trips Back & Forth to Mars by say 1970. Once a craft is no longer burdened like a pack mule carrying millions of pounds of fuel you can do a lotta flying. It would make Space-X look like an early steam locomotive. I contacted them once and they said they did not require any input from me.

      You might think lightning would be very Loud, much louder than turbines which is why we never got them in cars, but no, lightning flashed INSIDE A VACUUM WOULD BE WHISPER QUIET. And the walls of the craft would be hollow, filled with Helium providing Lift.

      It's a crime what has been done to us all. But, I held it to myself. Releasing it would have sent it into their vault where they hoard the juicy apples.

      We out here get the rinds and the cores.

    • 4 months ago
  • circlesquared
  • Gravity_Man
  • circlesquared
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      circlesquared  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I really like the thought that we need to understand what it means to be a human.....being. Some subconscious truth in those words we call ourselves by relevant to our experience and understanding here.

    • 4 months ago
  • Debrinconcita
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      Debrinconcita  
    • I don't like to see ghost towns anywhere, but this could happen anywhere, so this won't be the 1st one or the last time this will happen somewhere. Sometimes they just don't have the money to rebuild where this could happen again in the future.

    • 4 months ago
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • Debrinconcita:

      Yes. When radiation covers an area, that area is screwed for lifetimes. Putting people back into the neighborhoods would be condemning them to cancer. All of that because I want to have lots of electric appliances. Seems crazy to me. I think I'd rather eat dried meat than cause a nuclear meltdown because I insisted upon fresh steak.

    • 4 months ago
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  
    • Progresshiv:

      The half life of cesium 137 is 30 years. In thirty years, there will be 1/2 as much. If as the article says, radiation levels inside the exclusion zone are greater than 5X the yearly acceptable dose in one hour-----it will be a VERY VERY long time before radiation levels are at an acceptable level.

    • 4 months ago
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  
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    • The exclusion zone includes an area of 452 square miles---larger than the city of Los Angeles.

      If it were in Rhode Island, it would cover almost 1/2 of the state.

      Lost pets of Fukushima

      http://news.yahoo.com/photos/lost-pets-of-fukushima-1328409245-slideshow/lost-pe...

      I would not be surprised if most of the animals in these pictures have to be destroyed. How can they be reunited with their owners? The owners themselves are homeless, and who knows for how long? It has been over 20 years since Chernobyl, and that area is abandoned----and will remain so for decades more. It seems to me that Fukushima is going to end up the same way----if radiation levels have not gone down to acceptable levels in almost a year, it does not seem likely that they will.

    • 4 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • 20thsieclefox
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  
    • 20thsieclefox:

      I doubt if anyone living in that area could imagine it either----until it happened.

      The time to imagine it is now----while there is still time to do something about it.

      After it happens, it is too late to do anything.

    • 4 months ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • 20thsieclefox:

      Yep. There's a lotta things peoplehave difficulty imagining are coming true. Such as Luke 21 => v.25 “Also, there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth anguish of nations, not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and [its] agitation, 26 while men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

      But the really CRAZY THING HERE is that we actually do know "a way out" at least out of the nuclear problem part. We are caught in a vise somewhere between reverse peristalsis and impotence. The "viagra" we need is Solar Energy and Gravity Energy as well many other energies that would bring solution to the physical issues now plaguing mankind, even Americans also.

      So, since we are so super intelligent yet suffering a frozen shoulder of major proportions the only answer left is for Jesus to come and take over. Armageddon therefore isn't a bad thing it's the only thing left to save us... to save whatever good people are left as the "seed" to a New World.

      Which is a very interesting conclusion to draw because that's exactly what the last book of the Bible proposes will happen in Chapter 7... where John wrote that a certain crowd of people would survive a great tribulation. Are we not now in a "Great Tribulation" being poisoned with our own inventions?

      Such as the leachate-level plastic molecules coming off of handheld computers and phones that sweat-widened skin pores are readily absorbed into the human bloodstream??? This is affecting the Young more than old people. No doubt many Christmas presents have now caused BP-A poisoning in many 2 months later....

    • 4 months ago
  • The_Wanderer_Kansas
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      The_Wanderer_Kansas  
    • This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night, and as a father there are times I cry with distress for our poor world we are leaving our children to suffer through!

      Make fun of the Amish or not, they don't have the worst ideas I've ever heard.

    • 4 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • Wetdog
  • circlesquared
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  • 11dim
  • Progresshiv
  • ThirdSection
  • Progresshiv
  • Anonmaly
  • Progresshiv
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  
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    • Sad even in the most difficult climates we can build homes energy efficient enough to require a fraction of the natural resources or nuclear energy for heating and cooling....

      Of all things the "hemp-brick" method is highly efficient, and if it weren't prohibited, would be quite cost effective.

      http://emmonslori.com/energy-efficient-homes-businesses/

      What are the best energy efficient building materials?

      "These bricks are called hempcrete,

      are 10 times stronger than concrete bricks or cinder blocks

      stronger & safer to use in earthquake zones.

      fireproof, and highly bullet resistant

      waterproof, & mold and mildew retardant

      completely free of insect and rodent pests

      Buildings constructed of hempcrete blocks require no heating or cooling systems to maintain a comfortable temperature- now that’s green energy!

      I’m envisioning an entire revolution in the construction industry using these types of products.

      Imagine some type of spray which could be formulated containing hemp fibers to coat existing structures which would save enormous amounts of energy.

      Hemp fiber insulation is more efficient, non abrasive & shares the same qualities of hemp bricks."

      I'm actually quite ashamed that my country refuses to acknowledge and accept the benefits of hemp.... We'll continue to strip mine the mountains for coal, continue to "hydro-frac" until we've polluted entire aquifers, continue letting very dangerous nuclear power go on....

      But we can't legalize a product that is NO DRUG, that is extremely environmentally friendly, and can be grown and massed produced quite inexpensively to the benefit of EVERYONE....

      NO, hemp's illegal, destroy the environment......

      The government itself should be way more ashamed of themselves than I am.....

      And THAT'S one BIG reason I can't stand Obama, and would put Paul in office in a heartbeat over Obama because if Paul is friendly to marijuana he's friendly to hemp..... Go ahead and call that "racism".....

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • Anonmaly:

      Your ideas about hemp and its uses are sound, and they deserve a fair public hearing; however, there is a witch hunt mentality around hemp, much the same as the superstitions that gave rise to people saying, "Bless you," when somebody sneezes: it is still thought that there are evil dark forces stalking us from the shadows. When people finally realize hemp is just a plant that we can make stuff with (and not the devil's pubes), then it will happen.

    • 4 months ago
  • Vierotchka
  • Progresshiv
  • Vierotchka
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • Vierotchka:

      I remember looking at pictures of the victims of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii and wondering why they didn't run when they had the time. Now I live near the ocean where a tsunami is due and where radioactive debris is headed our way from Fukushima, and I wonder where I can run to.

    • 4 months ago
  • Vierotchka
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  
    • Vierotchka:

      I agree a hundred percent! Nuclear Power an evil that should never have been discovered or used in the first place! The world should put this evil back under the rock from which it came and move on to safer power alternatives,and on the weapons side of the argument no one should have that kind of destructive power!

    • 4 months ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  
    • "Nuclear power – the bright future of energy." If I would've saw that sign...I would've ripped it down. Don't think for a moment that this couldn't happen here. We are hearing more and more about our nuclear plants leaking because they are aging. America's towns could soon look just like this.

    • 4 months ago
  • Incredulous
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • Incredulous:

      Yes. And it is doubly sad, because scientists, engineers, and governmental officials have known for years that there is no such thing as safe nuclear power. It is just a matter of time until we irradiate the entire ecosphere.

    • 4 months ago
  • jackhole
  • Progresshiv
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