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Monday, March 21, 2011
Would you like a nuclear reactor in the neighborhood?
Nuclear reactors are everywhere as the world tries to look at ways to make energy without oil. Japan is one of such countries. A country with no oil whatsoever so what could it resort to, nuclear plants. Sure people complain but what choice did they have? These plants make 24% of Japan's energy. That's about a quarter and a lot. Right now countries express fear as they fear the same fate as Japan and will they? This I don't know, but would you like to live right beside one?
Say your in a country with no means of oil. I mean no oil at all and no coal. Imagine your a carbon free country. What would you do? Would you import all your oil? Nonsense that would be crazy and expensive. Renewable energy? Bah! Like that could ever generate enough electricity to power a country. What do we have left? Hydroelectric dams and nuclear energy. I would choose nuclear energy first, don't you think. It's makes a lot of energy and requires uranium which is a whole lot cheaper than oil. Also, it seems safer. The accident risk is less. The ability to make energy is so desperate that you build tons around the country. You then realize your on an island where earthquakes come like as if they're a habit. Why do we build then? Demand always bests safety in a fight to the death.
Demand may have brought nuclear haven to our countries. The catastrophic consequences of nuclear power plants over the decade are low, but when one happens. it is unthinkable what will happen and how many lives are lost and how embarrassing you feel addressing the worried public like you have never done before showing the world your country has a poor reputation for something it always had pride in: dependability. The effects are more powerful than any oil spill can ever cause in it's lifetime. Sometimes great power comes with great risks.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Japan - Is the Government Keeping a Secret
Japan has been struck by disaster many times before, but none like this. This disaster has destroyed the nation and has ruined lives. It has shocked the nation into what seems to be likely called Haiti's Big Brother since it has the same effect, but worse it comes with a tsunami. There's an old Japanese saying that lies come in 3's and 8's. The Japanese said a 30km radius from the reactors, but now say you should be 80km away from the reactor. Three's and eight's isn't it. Don't you think.
The nuclear situation is something the government shouldn't be counted on. When the guy in trouble says no and many other smarter people say yes, they are probably not trying to show fear and that they are stupid. They also might feel embarrassed if the ask for help. Japan is a well developed country, it's not Haiti.
Japan has felt the disaster of it's reputation.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Who Should Pay After the Crash?
Would you buy a car that was in an accident? Probably not. That's the same thing the buyer would think if you were trying to sell your car if it had an accident. Would you like it? Probably not again. Yet this is the reality of this world. We want things with no problems and that makes things hard for you: the owner. No insurance company wants this to become the law because they don't want to pay for something that they can't quantify. You see if you drive it until the wheels go under, there is no diminished value. Thats the reason they won't pay. Usually people have to lawsuit just to get the money and brokers always try to keep it on the down low.
Georgia, USA is probably the only place where it's probably the law that diminished value must be compensated for the owner of the person in an accident regardless of who's at fault. They claim that since it's your property, you have the right to sell it and you'll never know if your never going to ever sell it. Since it's your property the insurance company is supposed to put you back in the place you were prior to the accident, isn't that the reason we pay for insurance. To get our money back?
Many brokers will fight over this issue. Some may even lawsuit against a law such as this to be passed. Yet know this fact, all the claims they make are false. The sky shall not fall, insurance rates will stay the same and you'll have a happier state/province.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Alberta Oil Sands
The Alberta Oil Sands is where Canada gets it's oil from. This is probably the worst ways to get oil from the Earth. Extracting the oil from the oil sands takes a ton of carbon already in addition to the carbon you'll waste burning it, but that's not the problem. The problem is it's effect on nature in the area.
Last fall a study showed fish in Fort McMurray were poisoned. The fish apparently was deformed and toxic compared to normal ones. The government boasts about its world class monitoring system that's supposed to prevent these things from happening. This lead to another study by an independent panel, formed by the Alberta government, about the people that are supposed to monitor the oil sands. A group was monitored by scientists about how they were monitoring the sands. The scientists concluded that there was no leadership, no coordination, and bluntly no success.
Currently the government is given pressure to clean up from it's partners like the US. The panel recommended the study above to see the impact of the oil sands on the environment, but not just the carbon impact.
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
The So-Called Wikileaks War
Wikileaks is a site with a purpose like any other: to allow whistle-blowers to release their information confidentially. Wikileaks previously wasn't a popular site until the release of many cables by Julian Assange that gained worldwide attention apparently.
Since the release of the latest cables the world has come to look at Wikileaks in a bad way. US diplomats are calling Assange a terrorist and is planning to use his site for terrorism. This came forth after the cable which showed the US having people spy on countries like Russia, Iran, and Canada. Assange released the cable and others possibly to show the world is corrupt and not as pretty as most hope to perceive it to be. Assange is said to be facing charges or espionage, but all he does is make documents available. The main leaker's are soldiers who are now warned by the government to not use any CD's, memory sticks, or DVD's.
A group named Anonymous is trying to combat the US, by saying Wikileaks is something that is needed. The either shut down temperarily or slowed down sites like Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and Moneybookers. Apparently it has changed it's focus to now trying to release all the cables that Assange hasn't done yet. A "so-called" member told the world it has changed it's focus as apparently the sites aren't having the impact they want to happen.
Assange is currently in prison facing charges of espionage and sex charges. Assange is computerless and unable to release the cables. Now everyone must be thinking, why not shut this site down? Well this site is hosted in Sweden by PRQ, a controversial hosting service founded by Pirate Bay founders. The reason is simple: Sweden has protective laws for journalists which prevent Wikileaks from being shutdown.
Wikileaks to me is not something the world should wash away, but embrace. Wikileaks has shown that the world is not as pure as you think and what may be a smile, may have the devil's heart.
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