http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:27:21 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:27:21 [b[Meiji ignored tipoffs on cesium in formula[/b]
Kyodo

Meiji Co. was tipped off on three separate occasions in mid-November that its milk formula may be contaminated with radioactive cesium, but ignored the information for about two weeks, sources said.

The major food maker only looked into ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1100 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:36:53 [b]Radioactive water leaks at Kyushu Electric's Genkai reactor[/b]

In this file photo, the Genkai nuclear power plant, owned by Kyushu Electric Power Co., is seen in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2009. (Mainichi)

SAGA (Kyodo) -- Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Saturday that 1.8 tons of c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1099 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:31:57 New Lab to Help Utilities "See" Grid of the Future
By Heather Lammers, NREL

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With the simple flick of a light switch, you are connected to "the machine." The North American electric grid — the world's most complex transmission and distribution system — also is [u]referred t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1098 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:30:49 OK wrote, [i]"Even if you are dealing with electricity from a solar cell, the efficiency of a battery electric vehicle is not that much better than a fuel cell vehicle, especially as the range of the vehicle increases."[/i]

IIRC when we are looking at the amount of noncarbon generation needed to ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1097 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:46:24 [b]Germany: Renewables revolution
Europe's largest economy is boosting research on alternative energy sources and generating job opportunities. [/b]
Quirin Schiermeier Katrin Kohnert
Nature 480 , 279-280 (2011) doi:10.1038/nj7376-279a
Published online 07 December 2011
This article was origi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1096 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:17:23 [b]Champion Companies of Photovoltaics [/b]
By Pete Singer, Chief Editor, Photovoltaics World

The supply chain behind today's photovoltaics industry is vast, including materials suppliers, equipment manufacturers, cell and module manufacturers and balance-of-system providers. In this section, w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1095 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:13:41 This is what Sourcewatch has to say about The American Spectator:
[i]"The American Spectator is a conservative political magazine founded by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. It is most famous for its attacks on the Clinton administration in the 1990s, including the Richard Mellon Scaife-funded Arkansas Projec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1094 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:47:13 What does the person in charge of regulating grid reliability say about need for baseload electric?
[div class="excerpt"]Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Mission: Reliable, Efficient and Sustainable Energy for Customers.
Assist consumers in obtaining reliable, efficient and sustainab... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1093 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:47:36 That is actually a key point. In fact the directional forces at the plant site were only modestly in excess of design standards. The plant didn't experience anything approaching the 9.0 forces at the epicenter.

Here is a first person narrative of what people on the scene observed, published in J... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1092 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:39:51 [b]Panel doubts TEPCO claim tsunami caused nuke accident[/b]
December 06, 2011
By AKIRA SATO / Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA

Not a few members of the government panel looking into the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are skeptical about Tokyo Electric Power Co. pointing the fing... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1101 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:11:50
[b]Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Amount of Strontium in Leaked Water, per TEPCO[/b]

From TEPCO's December 6 press release page:

150 liters of this radioactive strontium-rich water leaked into the ocean from the evaporative condensation apparatus (part of the contaminated water treatment system), v... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1091 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:03:24 You wrote, "And if they double the price of the renewables... we would have passed this point years ago!"

Perhaps you meant "halve" instead of "double"?

I'm not surprised you don't see the point of the chart since it i can't be spun as helpful to nuclear or hurtful to the nuclear industry's co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1090 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:59:12 http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/26/376250/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/photovoltaic-cost.jpg

Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis….

Electricity from the wind, sun, waves and biomass dre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1089 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:51:01 Only two facts are relevant to your determination of zealotry -
Q 1) Does someone accept nuclear?
Yes - not zealot
No - possible zealot proceed to Q2

Q2) Is the person vocal in their rejection of nuclear?
Yes - Zealot
No - Irrelevant

The facts that are brought to the table that determ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1088 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:03:26 [div class="excerpt"][b]Davis-Besse allowed to restart operations[/b]
BY DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER

OAK HARBOR, Ohio — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given FirstEnergy a green light to restart the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant while ordering the company to investigate further the ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1086 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:40:41 [div class="excerpt"][b]Davis-Besse allowed to restart operations[/b]
BY DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER

OAK HARBOR, Ohio — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given FirstEnergy a green light to restart the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant while ordering the company to investigate further the ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1087 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:35:13 [b]Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant[/b]
By Michael Mainville (AFP) – 4 hours ago

PARIS — Activists from environmental group Greenpeace managed to sneak into a nuclear power plant near Paris on Monday in a move they said highlighted the dangers posed by France's reliance on... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1085 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:13:00 Source: [b]Bloomberg[/b]

As much as 45,000 liters (11,870 gallons) of highly radioactive water leaked from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear station at the weekend and some may have reached the sea, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

The leakage shows the company known as Tepco is still struggling... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1084 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:00:56 [b]"This proposal will lead to a subsidised plant creating subsidised fuel so that subsidised operators can produce subsidised electricity and then receive subsidised waste disposal. The only winners in this are the nuclear operators, already rich with their 18% domestic fuel price rises this year."... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1083 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:27:07 [b]Xenon 400,000 times normal found in Chiba air immediately after Fukushima nuke accident[/b]

CHIBA -- Radioactive xenon-133 some 400,000 times normal levels was detected in the atmosphere here immediately after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, a radiation s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1082 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:48:07 According to the proponents of nuclear power, since nuclear plants have a high capacity factor, they are entirely self sufficient and require no backup. If they have to purchase $140 million worth of power, that must come from "backup" power sources that are normally "standing by" right?

Whether... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1081 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:15:07 I wrote often about distributed renewables vs centralized thermal. I point out that the distributed grid doesn't eliminate utilities, but it does change their positioning from a centralized bottle-neck through which all energy must pass, to a peripheral role that supplements or augments the distribu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1080 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:42:00 [b]$1 Billion Solar Project Goes Ahead Without DOE Backing [/b]
By Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com
November 30, 2011


New Hampshire, USA -- Months after saying that it would have to scale back plans on military bases across the U.S., SolarCity announced Wednesda... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1079 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:54:03 Well Mr. Chairman, if you did you job with a primary eye towards a regulator's obligation to the public rather than to the bottom line of the industry, there would be far less to worry about.



[div class="excerpt"][b]Nuclear Power In 2012: Challenge Of Complacency[/b]
By Margaret Ryan
Publi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1078 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:45:45 Trying to minimize the perception of harm doesn't decrease the input into the food chain.

[b]"Radioactive Ocean: NHK Survey Shows 1.74 Microsievert/Hr at Ocean Bottom off Fukushima"[/b]

Radiation on the ship: 0.14 microsievert/hr, in the water 0.025 microsievert/hour. The number increases as i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kristopher/1077 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:39:26