There
are four myths that proponents of nuclear power must have you to believe before
they can be assured you’ll accept it.
The first is that nuclear power is safe.
The next one is that “nobody has ever died from a nuclear meltdown”. The third is that only nuclear has the size
and scale of all the alternative (non global warming) energy sources. The fourth is that nuclear power is
cheap. Let’s tackle this last one
first. Basically a nuclear plant is just
a very expensive way to boil water.
Clearly a can of butane would be a more efficient way of “boiling water”
than something nuclear. Nuclear power is
not cheap despite the fact that at one time - -it would be so plentiful that it
would be unmetered. They wouldn’t even
charge you for the electricity. As to
the idea that nuclear reactors are safe- - we know the decay has to be stored
for thousands of years or the rest of our life on the planet. How can scientists be assured they can design
a storage device that will enture that long.
And yet these same nuclear advocates say it’s impossible to rely on
solar power because “the sun doesn’t shine at night” and they don’t have faith
that we can devise a way of storing electric power in a battery over night, but
we must believe them they can store it for thousands of years. One point not stressed is that nuclear plants
are old. Many of them have been around
fifty or sixty years. They will say
nobody has ever died in a nuclear plant melt down, and say that “the chances of
a nuclear melt down are one in a million”.
But it seems we have a major melt down on the average of every seven
years in the world. And that if all the
petro-chemical plants were replaced by nuclear plants, the figure would be one
meltdown a year. As to this notion
about “having a major grid”, we in today’s technology are becoming more
decentralized in our energy sources.
Decentralization is the wave of the future. Wither it’s a local source or else individual
solar cells on your own roofs. Keep in
mind there is a direct coralation in cancer deaths in the vicinity of Three
Mile Island, whose thirty year anniversary is coming up in a few weeks. There is a much more direct causal connection
in these cancer death rates than for second hand tobacco smoke, what do you
want to bet? And one more thing- - in
Russia- - scientists were forbidden on pain of death or exile to the Gulag or
something- - if they dared report all the millions of deaths upon the
Cheyrnoble meltdown around April of 1986.
I’m thinking of that John Lennon song, “How do you sleep at night?” Will you or I ever “be able to sleep at
night” ever again if we go all nuclear with the knowledge we have ticking
time-bombs all around us?
Alll
right now I really am puzzled. If I were
Rush Limbaugh listening to this inaugural speech of Governor Christie, I’d be
fawning all over this speech. I’d be
gazing in awe at him thinking ‘Never have I heard such a speech of subline
perfection. You know that I’ve worked at
it for 25 years and even I have been unable to achieve the pompous as,
gas-baggery, the sheer self-obssed conceit of this speech”. I mean he was really something. Like the speech at the Romney concention it
was a speech all about ME and he stressed the notion that there is a unity and
a bond and all of that with the people of New Jersey, and he names every
conceivable sub group strata of society out there in this fantasy that “all
these diverse people support me”. The
most petty and self-obsessed lines got the most applause. Suddenly though the whole picture froze and I
was unable to get it going again. The
last thing he said before that happened was “I pledge to you that I am willing
to make this government work, for those willing to pay for it”. Yeah – in Big City machine politics I think
we all know what he means by the phrase of “willing to pay for it”, don’t
we? Actually I think I’ve seen and
heard enough already.
Then
it was Sean Hannity and praising the state of Texas, while at the same time
disparaging not only New York but also Florida.
As Sean sees it, Florida is now useless as a state because of all of
these northerners who have moved down there, while still continuing to vote
like Northerners and turning Florida into a blue state. There
were lots of female callers from Texas.
Sean also said “You know, the state of New York makes it really hard for
a boss to be good to his employees” but never got around to explaining what he
meant. Katie Kuric had “Tech Tuesday”. There was a major segment on Drone air crafts
and their many uses. I dozed off the
middle of the hour. But then James Dyson
or Lord Jim came on. He’s the guy (and
you recognize his voice) from the Dyson vacuum cleaner movies inventing the
bagless vacuum cleaners that use centrifical force. He invented some other device that appears
to be a bladeless fan that moves air without blades but through some horse shoe
device. He claims he does it by “amplifying
random air movements”. It seems a little
spooky to me.
EWN
is doing the weather now- - and they aren’t holding out a hope for rain and I
told Teresa the barometer was 30.10 inches, and that’s too high for rain. Oh by the way Texas is also having sixty
degree weather, so this next round of the polar vortex won’t be affecting
them. I noted Accronis when it came on
at five o clock, right on time. I haven’t
seen the end notice yet. I would like to
Google Christie’s speech. I trolled
MSNBC and their site is all different now- - but it has one of these click
things you can do to see other listings.
Ed Schultz announced that MSNBC was carrying Christie’s Inauguration
Speech live right at that moment at nine PST.
My only interest in the speech is to hear the fantasy ramblings of a guy
who’ll never stay in office long enough to fulfill whatever promises he made,
that he had no intention of fulfilling even if he were to stay in office for
his four years. Now we are on page six. Ed said he was tiring of the Christie scandal
and there are more important things to talk about. One name you haven’t heard lately is Ted
Cruz. I’m beginning to wonder whether
that fad has already faded. You hear about
Bobby Jendell and Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, but not Teddy Boy. I heard
somebody joke “You know something; we better get Mitt Romney back”. For any republican to voice this shows true
desperation.
I
didn’t like Randy Rhodes going overboard like that in defending this black guy
on the Seattle team whose one claim to fame is that he made a lucky play. He was in the right place at the right
time. But he talks as though he’s God’s
gift to earth like one of these wrestling guys of old, and says “Don’t you dare
say anything bad about me. I know that
receiver is saying things about me behind my back”. At that point the “angry black man” alert
was given and they ended the interview, because I think they feared he was
going nuts and about to drop a lot of F--- bombs all over the place. Randy likes the Sea Hawks uniforms. In soap land - - Daniel used a fire axe or
something to break dowsn the door and rescue Eric and Nicole from the
accumulating gas. It took them a while
to even think to shut off the gas. Both
are OK. But then Samantha was given yet
another “Warning” (and this is about her fourth) of what E J is really like,
and what to expect from him as a husband.
She just got through not an hour before with this self deprecating speech
where she did everything short of eat her own bowel movements. She went on and on about what a great guy E J
was and how unworthy she has been as his wife and all. It was pretty sickening. Now once again Samantha has a choice. She knows this “thing” is not “some event out
of the past” but is now in the here and now present, and the man who tried to
kill her brother- - is out there and running loose - - and could try it
again. But rather than pledge solidarity
with his wife- - EJ acts really “put off” by the very idea of being in the
hospital and that is wife is concerned about her own brother. E J in short has this rebuffing “who gives a
damn” attitude over it. Then we have
Julie telling Hope about her concerns over the welfare of Nick Fallon, and
urging Hope to call out the Mounted Police or something. There’s Maggie and his “Aunt Marie” and
other Horton family members who think of Nick as something other than an
expendable psychopath. And of course
Abigail is under stress now. I’d like to
say “Let me borrow your body for a little bit and I’ll handle this. Jerk-offs like Will Horton aren’t worth the
time of day”.
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