Can scientists engineer a biofuel that will replace the environmental and climate destroying and evermore expensive fossil fuels central to the functioning of our urbanized civilization? The answer is no and yes.
Energy
Finding innovative solutions to supplying efficient, clean, safe, renewable and reliable energy for electrical power, transportation, heating and cooling. We look at problems created from the addiction to dirty fossil fuel energy, mountaintop removal and ecosystem disruption, global climate change, severe air and water pollution, and community dislocation and pollution, Extreme methods such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking), tar sands, hydroelectric dams and other damaging methods and sources are examined.
China Syndrome Redux or Godzilla Lives? By Jerry Collamer
Update from Fukushima: cooling water pours in, instantly drains out highly radiated, through unknown openings, workers can’t locate, due to extreme radioactivity, as more quakes persist. Could things get worse? Seems so.
Keeping Our Lights On and Nukes Off – A Plan – By Jerry Collamer
There’s no way on God’s green earth, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) can fix 19,454 (per dome) rotting pipes, without a plumbing overhaul of nuclear proportions, keeping its creaky ol’double boilers shut down for years, or maybe decades. Good.
Nuclear Power Plays: Ye Old Boys Club – By Jerry Collamer
The Good Ol’Boys at the club say: “Nuclear is risky but, as an investment opportunity, with trillions in governmental subsidies, and naive ratepayers picking up the rest, how can one’s portfolio be without it? That said, I heat the spas and pools in all of my homes with solar.”
Shale Gas Boom Triggers Poisoned-Water Gold Rush
The dirty water produced from fracking has triggered a gold rush among water-treatment companies, with the private water industry profiting while downplaying its environmental, public health and economic risks.
FUBAR is San Onofre Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Analysis of San Onofre Nuke Plant degenerating pipes (leaking!!!), where the process of super heating water via nuclear fission, then pumping the crazy-hot radioactive liquid thru thousands of pipes to create steam, to turn a turbine, to make electricity, is cracking SONGS’ pipes / FUBAR. Or snafu’d. Take your pick.
San Onofre Leaks: Whistleblower Vents
An undetermined amount of radiation escaped from San Onofre nuclear power plant after a water leak, and a whistleblower expresses concerns abouts repeated expensive and potentially dangerous problems.