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Monday, May 30, 2011

Might as well face it, they're addicted to nukes

We'll be living downwind from disaster for a long time. We do better when the breeze is blowing the other way.

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Was just reading how Germany has recently decided to close ALL of their nuclear power plants by 2022:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/world/europe/31germany.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=aua2

Is coal any better?

You might want to start brushing up on your Terry Tempest Williams reading.

Is coal any better?

Right now, I'd think the northern Japanese would take it.

Sanity seems to have come first to Germany.

Let's see...nuclear fallout from 10,000 miles away, or coal soot and nuclear fallout from 1,000 miles away...

Of course, nothing that some wind turbines, some solar panels, and lots of Streetcar lines can't solve.

Erik H: Fukushima is about 4,500 miles away from Portland. And nobody can keep the wind, oceanwater and rainclouds from traveling the world.




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