All of a sudden, the international left and it's American conspiratorial Counterpart has been outed with a peak at a few Emails, that demonstrate that the English organization falsified data to prove man-made global warming. Hmmm.
I imagine
Al Gore seeing all of his hopes turn down the drain of humanity, the way his political career has done in the United States. He will have much good company, including
join the Green-movement, mover and shaker, co-conspirator, Mikhail Gorbachev in the ash-can of political viability, sans the lies, cheats, thieves and whores of the American Left, in general and of the Green-movement specifically. Want to reduce CO2 emissions? There are two ways and wind energy is not one of them, unless everybody goes back to eating navy beans and ham -- which we all may have to do if the left continues to spend us into an oblivion from which the survivors will find difficult to recover--and navy beans and ham nationwide could not match in the production of useless gas as is produced in the environs of our nation's capital, and as we are finding out, harnessing gas bags is a terrible proposition without shooting them first. In that case, I think truly we are at the point that
Claire Wolfe Observed not that long ago at the Libertarian Convention in Arizona in
1996 - "
It's too late to work within the system, and too early to shoot the Bastards(Yet)". I like Uranium. Harold Bell, my grandfather, went off to Nevada in 1924 to drill exploratory wells for finding Uranium. Harold drove a new Model-T to Nevada and it was a used up hunk of iron by the time he had returned in 1925.
Harold's son, my father, Edwin, worked in the "Nuclear energy program" so to speak, for all of his life -- probably died of intersticial fibrosis due to Molybdenum. It makes me wonder at the powers and influence of Government, as the request for an autopsy was conveniently fouled up and if their were such contaminated organs, they were discarded before the family request was carried out.
I don't know that the autopsy would have revealed anything more. But it may have done.
My father was a patriot of the first kind, you know, 1789? Not some false statist version as was instituted in many bureaucracies instituted at the bequest of and since FDR. At any rate,he had a very good life, was in the midst of things that happened in the middle 50 years of the 20th century and he was a very honorable man. I miss him terribly. wouldn't wish a death by this disease upon anyone, but in a way, he did not witness the events of 9/11. I believe if he had, he would have died of a stroke or heart attack, watching an attack of this dimension on our soil.
I should recall here, that my father's "nuclear" career began, so to speak, in the Military-- the US Army Aircorp. He was one of the men who flew to Tinian in 1945, and use that Island as a base for attacking the Japanese forcing a close to World War II. Not mentioning names, he was the type of man who noticed things and he noticed that many of the officers were poor dumb bastards and didn't know how to do anything and the way most of them became officers was to have obtained prior to service a college degree. The piece of paper didn't keep them from being ultimately dumb, but it got them an officer's rank and the money and power that went with it.
After the war, one such officer being the reason he did so, my father attended the University of Missouri and graduate Cum laud in 1948 with a degree in electronic engineering. Thus did my father end his military career working with a nuclear weapon delivery system(The radar on the planes Bock's Car and Enola Gay), but later in designing and developing radar for [--?--] for various [--?--]'s delivery systems.
I like Uranium, not as much as gold in the short-term(which may be a long term if our left-ist, socialist congress remains in session another day or two), BUT if I had the option and if I had any money beyond my investment in the sort term yellow metal(real stuff, not stocks)... [I don't have the option in either of the two cases, short and long term] but if I did, I would choose uranium over wind energy or solar energy hands down(Because I have half a light bulb still able to be lit).
So in this longer view, because I know that wind-energy generation, electric cars and navy beans are not an option, and hoping though dispairing of humanity encountering a world-wide catastrophe in which as much as 1/4 or more of the population dies in a single year or two(armageddon, a plague, etc), then if the world is to reduce emissions which is a laudable goal for us to maintain the beauty of the areas in which we live and work and the aura which surrounds us in the process, then my bet is nuclear energy will be the solution. There is no other alternative which can produce enough energy to supply the needs of mankind and reduce as well, carbon emissions.
From the Casey Dispatch we hear:
Why do we like Uranium? Let me count the ways:
1. The US and Soviet public has had a great fear of nuclear reactors since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. As the world seeks to cut back on carbon emissions, and with publics which will not wish to face brown-outs(remember those), or plain peasant living in the 21st century, they will opt for the lesser evil of Nuclear Power in lieu of the fantasy of Wind and Solar energy development. The report quotes
the words from the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore:
“Nuclear energy is a key technology for the future and [there] should be a resurgence of this technology happening now.”2. In 2013 the HEU Agreement between the U.S. and Russia ends. This was dubbed, as the report observes, the Megatons-to-Megawatts, in which nuclear fuel for Soviet warheads was converted for peaceful use in US reactors. (the supply is dwindling but has provided a considerable source since the agreement began. When the agreement ends so does the supply. What next?
3. The China Syndrome - the Most expansive society in terms of energy will be the nation state of the 21st Century and it is not the US or any western european nation--It is China! The Casey Dispatch observes that China generates 3$ of it's power from Nuclear energy. TO accomplish meeting it's energy needs they will have to build a lot of dams and will have to resort to nuclear energy to meet the forcast demand of the countries burgeoning production industry -- this would mean that, presuming they do not self-destruct of their own population weight(and a plague), they will have to produce about 25% more in energy, or more than 8 times the number of reactors that it current has producing energy.
Sounds like a shortfall? The US and other western states have the same problem. And as I noted,
Navy Beans and Ham are not a viable solution.
The China factor – China currently generates about 3% of its energy from nuclear. If it reaches the regional average of 25%, it will need 8 times more reactors than it has now, putting further pressure on global uranium stocks.
all the best. If I inherited anything of my father, it was simply this: He never voted for a communist or socialist and he never in his life voted for a democrat.
best,
Dai
