Environment/Climate

What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan

Lt Col Garretson — one of the USAF’s most farsighted and original thinkers — has been at the forefront of USAF strategy on the long-term future in projects such as Blue Horizons (on KurzweilAI — see video), Energy Horizons, Space Solar Power, the AF Futures Game, the USAF Strategic Environmental Assessment, and the USAF RPA [...]

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‘Orca ears’ inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

Imagine a miniature microphone that responds to ocean sounds from 1 to 100kHz (a deep inaudible rumble to ultrasonic sounds) with a dynamic range of 160 dB (a whisper in a quiet library to the sound from 1 ton of TNT exploding 60 feet away) and operates at any depth. An amazing microphone that does [...]

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‘Extensive if not complete’ meltdown of three Fukushima reactors just 16 hours after the earthquake: coverup?

ScienceInsider (published by Science magazine) reported Tuesday May 17 that “over the last week, a combination of robotic and human inspections has led to the conclusion that the fuel assemblies in units 1, 2, and 3 were completely exposed to the air for from over 6 hours to over 14 hours and that melting was [...]

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Nothing But the BEST Exceed Every Expectation

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When we cannot predict

About a year ago, on Wednesday April 14th, I was on the way to London from JFK, when the pilot announced a slight delay into Heathrow in order to avoid the ash cloud coming out of the Icelandic volcano eruption. This was the first time I paid any attention to the subject. But once in [...]

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Nuclear radiation paranoid’s handy reference [UPDATED 3/22]

The Likely Radiation Distribution in Japan (March 19) Added 3/22: Iodine from plant detected in Tokyo: .046 µSv/hr. (438 µSv per year — about 4 chest x-rays); Fukushima Pref.: 21.9 µSv/hr. (191,844 µSv per year or 1918 chest x-rays). Dealing with radiation fears, potassium iodide requests: side effects include nausea, diarrhea, allergy, interference with the [...]

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A radical alternative to nuclear reactors

With deterioration of the nuclear reactor situation in Japan and radiation heading for Tokyo — in one extreme Pentagon scenario, catastrophic meltdowns and megadeaths in Japan, according to a source — many scientists are ramping up the search for alternates to earthquake-vulnerable nuclear power. “The Japanese Government has dissembled regarding the gravity of the failure [...]

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