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Japanese guys have the weirdest midlife crises.

If TEPCO are allowed to operate nuclear power plants in this country again, then I think I am done with Japan.

@badmigrain,

There is definitely a K's denki card as you say. I'm just not sure if it gathers points, or just gives you a flat rebate?

Asimo perhaps?

GW, You just might be right, NHK reports today that the defect count has now reached 260.

Only if people stop voting as they are told, and start voting with their heart, Kazuaki Shimazaki.

Is that really the economy Trickling down? The people say it smells a bit suspicious...

I realize that this is most likely AFP's doing, but this paragraph does not make any sense at all.

The researchers said their new model is simple, yet efficient, and can harness about 30 percent of the potential energy in the wastewater -- about the same rate as commercially available solar panels.

To the best of my knowledge solar panels does not turn wastewater into energy.

Perhaps they could paint all the black vans pink for the duration?

What they meant to assure you, was that the leaky flow of toxic information is completely under control.

It's like they're not even trying anymore.

A Coffee junkie myself. But in my teens I witnessed a girl overdosing on caffeine pills, it was a rather serious event, so there is certainly such a thing as too much caffeine.

Reorganizing and bringing back Microsoft Bob, yeah that'll do it.

Never mess with the squids!

Japan’s nuclear regulator said on Thursday that elevating safety culture to international standards will “take a long time".

Then I hope they will wait an equally long time before allowing any restarts of nuclear reactors.

Definitely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

The internet has made sure of that.

The Japanese solution will be to instate a rule that Teachers are from now on not allowed to tape up children's mouths with duct tape

It is sad, I really was prepared to give this new NRA credit for at lest trying to be a credible regulatory agency. Guess I was wrong.

Last year wind power produced 2.5 percent share of the total global electricity production and growing fast. While nuclear produced 13 percent with its share declining even faster.

Nuclear power doesn't make economic sense unless supported by the government, Wind power does.

The hope is that this stem cell will grow into a fully-functioning human organ—a kidney or a liver, for example—as the animal matures.

So we could have whales with human brains?

Or better yet, I guess we have to assume that it works the other way around as well. So we can have humans with hoofs, goat beards, elephant trunks, lobster claws and bullhorns? Sweet !

Might be some 1900 year old pop culture, but:

"jesus christ" 112,000,000 "Jesus Christ in africa" 63,300 results

Obvious missing option: The Invisible Man

Solar (PV) Energy Returned On Energy Invested (EROEI) is 6.8 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_invested, meaning that for each kwh consumed during the entire production chain 6.8 kwh is produced by the unit. That puts it higher than tar sands, shale gas and many types of bio-fuel and at about a third of wind power. Other numbers I have seen says 3 years on average to recoup production for solar-pv power in the US, while large wind needs 6-7 months.

I think Japan should get a divorce from Abe

From what I hear, they sucked pretty bad on earlier gigs of this tour.

The same India that refuses to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty? And the same India that Abe is more than happy to cut nuclear deals with, exchanging Japanese nuclear tech for Rupees? The same India that comes down heavy handily on the population that does not want any new nuclear power plants?

Well done Abe.

Perhaps they could apply for some world heritage site, that ought to do it right?

Level 1 is the second on the scale, the first being 0. (There is also the 'Out of scale' events, but by definition that would not be part of the scale).

Amateurs!

Everyone knows, that the real money is in spring onions.

Well I don't know , you would have the problem in the evenings instead. LMT for Tokyo is 09:18, so the +09:00 UTC seems rather appropriate if you want to keep a single time zone for the whole nation.

Summer/Winter time is a whole other discussion.