The below article is very comprehensive and informative. It discusses the nuclear melt-down process and the history of such accidents. It also goes into the economics of both forms of power, wind and nuclear, and touches on coal, oil, and gas. It's well-worth the time to read it through. - Dan
http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2011/03/18/nukes-black-swan-events-and-wind-turbines/
A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
Hey, this IS a good article and it's also available here in it's original form. More to come on this subject soon from here in the states and in reports from abroad in Fukushima, Japan.
ReplyDeleteHere's the original article by Dave Bradley --
NUKES BLACK SWAN EVENTS AND WIND TURBINES
Monday, March 14, 2011
Nukes, Black Swan Events and Wind Turbines
Summary
Japan has recently been nailed with a one two punch of a massive earthquake (9.0 on the Richter scale) plus the subsequent massive tsunami when a length of one crustal plate sliding over another one lurched suddenly, and the main island of Honshu moved 8 ft closer to North American in a very short period of time. The fault line was "only" 150 km long, and a few km wide meters wide, but that's a lot of water that gets moved. The surge of water was between 7 to 10 meters in many places (25 to 33 feet). See http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/13/956106/-Major-Update:-Catastrophic-Failure-of-Sea-Walls-in-Japan ... The good news.. it could have been worse, especially if the 400 km length of plate had shifted like it COULD have...
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