Posted in: What are you doing in your daily life to conserve electricity during the current heatwave? See in context
I invested in PV solar, which powers the A/C.
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Posted in: Tokyo marks record 9th day of temperatures above 35 C See in context
Are there climate change deniers in Japan like in the US?
Sometimes, I think our US conservatives are the only ones on Earth who still deny the science.
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Posted in: Mercury climbs to 40.1 C in Japan; national record for June See in context
Hold on. folks, because climate change is just beginning. Those of us who studied this have known it was coming but were ridiculed by those without significant education.
I do not hear much climate change-denying this summer in the US. But the damage has been done.
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Posted in: Mercury climbs to 40.1 C in Japan; national record for June See in context
Is the US the only nation with climate deniers?
Any in Japan?
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Posted in: U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion See in context
Now, if conservatives could only find a way to have every American baby born with a sidearm, and come out shooting, will they be happy.
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Posted in: U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion See in context
Conservatives care nothing for human life, they only care about control of others.
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Posted in: U.S. nuclear industry hopes to expand output with new reactors See in context
I just read the US analyses of these technologies from past endeavors, and it does not look good: The cost savings from "modular" construction is turning out to be illusory. The smaller diameter cores mean lower burnup rates, and more complex and long-lasting nuclear waste. Using 3,000,000 F degree neutrons to boil water is nonsense. Boiling water to steam this way is not practical, with very high costs and dangers.
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Posted in: Considering climate change, wars, food security, price hikes, the pandemic, migration, racial and political divisions -- what do you think the world be like in 10 years? See in context
Having earned a Master of Science in Environmental Management in 1982 and watching our progress in sending ourselves to extinction, I confidently predict very few humans will be alive in one hundred years.
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Posted in: China vows it will fight to the end to stop Taiwan independence See in context
China will risk a world-wide nuclear war to get Taiwan.
If Xi does nothing else, he will take Taiwan to cover his other failures.
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Posted in: Aging Fukui nuclear reactor to restart in August, 2 months early See in context
Having been part of a team which tested the safety systems of these reactor types, I can say NO! to those who want to restart them.
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Posted in: North Korea test-fires salvo of 8 short-range missiles See in context
Meanwhile, twenty people starved to death in one area last week in North Korea.
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Posted in: Shimane Prefecture OKs restart of nuclear reactor See in context
I was part of a team in 1979 which tested BWRs and their safety systems.
They are dangerous. Do not restart them.
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Posted in: Cruise control See in context
Having worked alongside test pilots and astronauts at the Air Force Flight Test Center back when we flew X-15s, all three variants of Blackbirds and both XB-70s, I can say this silly film is just adolescence in afterburner. The real professionals are nowhere near as juvenile as Cruse.
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Posted in: Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India's coal usage See in context
PV panels provide shade as they generate electricity for air conditioners.
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Posted in: Tons of Japanese nuclear waste may be destined for overseas disposal See in context
Have the high level managers take some home with them every day.
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Posted in: Swiss seek to bury radioactive waste in clay See in context
Nuclear waste should be divided up and sent home with the major decision-makers in utilities which inflicted this on us.
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Posted in: Swiss seek to bury radioactive waste in clay See in context
We are now seeing the tip of the iceberg which is world-wide contamination from our Faustian bargain with things nuclear. Following generations, if any, will curse us and ask why we could be so short-sighted and stupid.
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Posted in: U.S. prosecutors charge 4 yakuza members in weapons for drugs case See in context
Can the US bill the yakuza for the cost of locking them up?
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Posted in: U.N. warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world' See in context
Our injection of additional CO2 into the atmosphere and marine environments has destabilized the Stable State of the Climate, which is the resultant of interactions between complex systems. Conditions will start to change, to oscillate between extremes greater and greater until it finds a new Stable State, usually at one of the extremes, where it gets stuck. It may not be conducive to Human habitat.
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Posted in: How fast can we stop Earth from warming? See in context
The permafrost is already thawing, and there is no way to stop it now. It will be the end of us, with methane tens of times more harmful as a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.
There are huge methane blowouts in Siberia, and even methane seeps now in Antarctica! But go on making fun of scientists, and keep listening to politicians instead of taking action NOW.
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Posted in: When a country remains neutral in a conflict like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it benefits the aggressor. Do you agree with this statement? See in context
Ego Sum Lux Mundi, the answer is YES, and I am an American Vietnam Veteran.
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Posted in: Kuwait, among world's hottest places, lags on climate action See in context
Add humidity to that and you have killer conditions. We will have several places this summer with wet-bulb temperatures too high for humans.
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Posted in: Generally speaking, what do you think is the best way for parents to teach their young children the difference between right and wrong? See in context
When you beat your child, you train him or her to beat your grandchildren.
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Posted in: Do you agree with the decision by many global companies to sever their business ties with Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine? See in context
The change will have to come from within Russia itself. I at first suspected the oligarchs would put pressure, but they have little. Then, I heard his daughters were worried about being Putins, scorned everywhere. But it will have to come from the Siloviki, the former KGB and other nasty folk now in government and in the ear of Putin. They are the ones who did the poisonings for Putin, and can see what Putin is doing to their nation now.
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Posted in: Do you agree with the decision by many global companies to sever their business ties with Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine? See in context
The poor Russian people have never known good government, and now their crazed Putin is taking them down with himself. How many more will die before he is stopped?
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Posted in: 30-year-old man arrested for smearing bodily fluid on high school girl See in context
Bodily fluids = DNA
Now you can find him eventually.
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Posted in: 25,000 runners take part in Tokyo Marathon See in context
It will be interesting to see if they got away with trying to normalize now.
Let us hope so.
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Posted in: Heat wave a glimpse of climate change's impact in North America See in context
It will get worse. The permafrost is thawing, releasing massive amounts of Methane a greenhouse gas about 80 times the potency of CO2. We cannot stop it now, having Methane seeps in Antarctica already.
Thank your local Denier.
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Posted in: Deadly floods hit eastern Australia See in context
Yet they still produce massive amounts of coal.
Do they not get it?
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Posted in: Deadly floods hit eastern Australia See in context
Climate change affects everybody.
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Lassi is not supposed to be an ice cream. Try kulfi instead.
Posted in: Curry and lassi ice creams: Like eating cubes of frozen curry roux
Why do they pass laws against Russian laundering money in the UK
Posted in: UK to strengthen internet laws to fight Russian disinformation
My bad guys but that dude was asking for it.
Posted in: Passenger arrested for breaking connecting door glass while fighting on train