With all the focus on the demise of Solyndra last year and the attempts by the mainstream media to portray the death of Concentrating Solar Power due to the decrease in price of Solar PV thanks to the increasing efficiencies of Chinese production lines, it seems that CSP has been quietly making steady progress across the globe.

With facilities coming online recently in California and the Torresol facilities in Spain coming online at the end of last year. We also see the increased activity in the UAE as they seek to shore up their internal electricity supply due to the impending demise of the oil industry.

The question that still needs to be answered is can the global community bring enough of these large and relatively low output facilities online in the coming decade to make a serious contribution to the urgent issue of replacing the loss of oil from the energy supply infrastructure.

To get an idea of the daunting task that we face the facility in the video below is only capable of producing 5MW peak. Combine that with results from Australia of the total combined output of all the wind power facilities only able to produce an average of 30-40% of full capacity and we start to get a feel for the immensity of the challenge.

Tags: Construction, e=mc2, Solar by sparky
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As we predicted at the very start of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico over two years ago the fish stocks were going to be permanently damaged by the abundance of highly toxic chemicals that were released by the volcano of methane hydrates, butane and then the incredible usage of Correxit across the entire plume in an attempt to push the problem under the carpet by forcing the plume down to the depths of the ocean floor.

As expected the situation has continued to deteriorate. With several species at the bottom of the food chain having gone through generational mutations the shocking truth is now making it’s way to the mainstream media thanks to a detailed report from Al Jazeera.

It seems that not only are the Americans about to loose their economy due to the excesses of a failed monetary policy built on creating debt for the next generation to service in perpetual slavery, as well as attempting to force perpetual war on the planet they are now having to face the fact that their beloved supply of seafood is not perpetually diminishing and will soon be gone.

Some might say it is just desserts for a nation that has caused so much pain and suffering across the globe. Others might say it is a sever price to pay for the excessive greed of the Elite few as they seek to continue their dominance through controlling the energy supply. Others might conclude that it would have been worth listening to the experienced advisors who originally counselled BP and their suppliers not to attempt their ridiculous goal of attempting to collect energy from Methane Hydrates in the first place.

At the very least we can hope that the next time one of the idiots at the helm decides to go against all the advice of the most knowledgable people in their field they will be shut down by the people who actually get paid to do the work for them. It’s unlikely but we can only hope…

Tags: Disaster, e=mc2, Elite, Environment, Media, Oil, Resources, Society, Water by sparky
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The situation in Fukushima continues to deteriorate with wide spread reports that the pools of spent fuel rods are catching on fire and about to topple off their precarious perches above the molten remains of the reactor cores. It should come as no surprise that after 13 months of continuous exposure to the heat and radiation from the exposed reactor cores the building that surround them are nearly completely destroyed. The pools that contain the hundreds of tonnes of spent fuel rods are collapsing and it is becoming very difficult to keep them covered in water if at all.

The result is that we are now facing an even greater threat than the continuously emitting Toxic Cloud of Death. We are now facing the very real possibility that the whole facility will simply catch on fire and spew forth the greatest poisonous cloud that we have ever witnessed. It is literally a race against time as the Japanese seek to stabilise the walls holding up the pools of spent fuel rods and stop them from tumbling into the molten reactor cores which they are located directly above.

Of course the mainstream press is barely reporting the issue as they do not fully understand the consequences. As we know the Fukushima Facility has already emitted enough Toxic Radiation to cover the entire globe. What they are not saying is that the fuel rods are so plentiful that should the pools that are holding them completely collapse it will result in almost 100 times the amount of radioactive fallout that we have already been exposed to over the course of the past 13 months. In Cesium alone Fukushima currently stores more than half of all the cesium that has been distributed through the globe by all the previous nuclear bombs and nuclear disasters combined. Let alone all the 5000+ other radionuclides that will be emitted if the whole facility catches on fire. Including but not limited to Plutonium and Strontium among other nasties most of which have not been seen since the Earth was formed over 3 billion years ago.

Recent studies have found a significant increase in radioactive Iodine in kelp located on the western coast of the USA. It is plainly obvious to anyone who has been following the course of the disaster that the tip of the iceberg has just been reached and that we will see a lot worse over the coming years as the truth about the ongoing affects makes it’s way to the news stream.

The issue now appears to be what to do with 35 million Japanese who will need to be relocated from Tokyo to other countries. Even if the biggest 1000 cities of the world absorbed that many people it would represent 35,000 people for each city. Given that most of them will be subject to the ongoing health and psychological affects of radiation exposure we can foresee that the health services will be overwhelmed by the increase in cancer cases. The logical conclusion is that most people will simply stay in Japan and take their chances. Given that they have a very slim chance of evolving the ability to withstand extreme radiation exposure it seems a foregone conclusion now that a great many Japanese people are going to perish in this decade. Let alone what it is going to do for the rest of the worlds population.

Tags: Disaster, e=mc2, Environment, Nuclear, Society by sparky
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It seems the Japanese authorities insist on learning things the hard way. Not only have they shown criminal neglect for the safety procedures and many years of advanced warnings from experts across the Nuclear and Geophysics industry that allowed Fukushima to be possible in the first place but they are still experimenting with ways to “contain” the mess at Fukushima. The Facility at Fukushima is still emitting the Toxic Cloud of Death after over 1 year and even thought they claim to have reached cold hutdown status a few months back they are still leaking details on a regular basis to inform us that they really do not have the situation under control at all. According to their own reports they have just barely managed to keep enough water flowing into one of the reactors chambers to allow it to be considered to be emitting several times the radiation known to kill a human being. The other tow chambers are still so “hot” that they can’t actually measure them.

Of course we know by now that when they say it is ok what they really mean is that it is far worse than they are prepared to publically discuss. The real truth is that not only have the reactor core melted down and descended into the earths crust they have also left behind significant amounts of detritus that is threatening to break out of containment after one year of constant degredation of the containmment structure. In other words the whole facility is threatening to become a massive dirty bomb and turn the rest of the facilities in the region into a chain reaction of never before seen proportions. The idea that they have actually stopped the worst from happening is far from reality.

The cause appears to be that they are too cheap to actually do what is required to fully contain the situation. It appears that they would rather take the risk that the whole of Tokyo becomes a permanent radioactive hotspot than to actually admit that the during the entire debacle they have made the wrong decision at every step of the way.

It’s baffling that the Japanese people have put up with the situation for so long. Considering that they have managed to shut down all but one of the nations nuclear reactors it would seem that their is a serious concern from the people about the ongoing exposure to the Toxic Cloud of Death. The strange thing is that they are not putting more pressure on TEPCO and the Government to fully cover over the entire facility. By now they could have actually made some serious progress on that front. Instead it seems they only want to wait and see if it will fix itself. Either that or they are simply trying to find out how much radiation the people of Japan can be exposed to before they will all just drop dead where they are standing.

A callous disregard for life appears to be playing out in the Japanese arena and even while all of this is happening they still find the time and money to hunt whales in the Antarctic reserves. Once again proving that they are simply mad, psychopathic and stupid all at the same time. For a country that can build such excellent products it is amazing that they have chosen to completely ignore the advice of the words most prominent physicists to cover the facility as fast as possible and instead go it alone throwing caution to the wind and seeing where the highly radioactive results land.

Tags: Disaster, e=mc2, Environment, Government, Nuclear, Society by sparky
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A recent knowledge release has put forward the idea of splitting water to hydrogen with nano scale silver trees. The idea being that trees absorb more light than flat surfaces. The researchers have found that they can capture sunlight at greater incidence angles and for longer periods during the daylight hours with these little trees. One thing they don’t discuss is what happens to the heat that is also captured by the tress. Is it enough to keep the water from getting too hot and evaporating before it gets split into is constituent parts of hydrogen and oxygen?

In other solar news there is a lot of take in the past couple of weeks about the idea of solar towers. There are various concepts being pushed out that include a solar accordion which folds down into a box for easy portability. They say that due to the falling cost of solar these ideas have now become economically feasible to produce. After all if we can produce televisions at a cheaper price than solar panels there is obviously a long way down for the solar panel industry to go before it reaches the true cost that actually manufacturing and shipping the end product should be once the cost of setting up the plants, building all the machinery and paying for all the scientific research has been covered. Take that massive cost out of the equation and the cost of solar falls so dramatically that the fossil fuel industry has absolutely no way to compete on price.

The only thing left going for the old energy market is that they are already up and running and have a high energy output as well as portability in the case of oil and gas. Definitely the nuclear industry must see the rise of extremely low cost solar as a threat to their ability to build massive and expensive power stations all over the place. Relegating nuclear power to the annals of history and research facilities or space exploration where it belongs. Places where the people in charge have a very real need to keep things in top shape or the will loose their own lives. That tends to make scientists more cautious in the way they handle and care for their nuclear facilities than psuedo government/private cash cows like TEPCO.

Tags: e=mc2, Elite, Government, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Research, Solar, Water by sparky
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Once again the real truth about the mess that is the Fukushima facility has finally made it to the mainstream media. Only 12 months after the disaster occurred the Japanese authorities are finally admitting that the three most damaged reactors at Fukushima are so highly radioactive that they are continuing to belch forth the Toxic Cloud of Death that is emitted as steam from inside the molten reactor cores as well as another massive leak of highly radioactive water runoff directly into the ocean. While this is terrible news for the whole world it must be excruciating for the locals to know that their entire coastal fishing ground are now completely toxic sludge for the next 400,000 years. The only possible good that could come of this and it is a very long shot is that the Japanese will be the first humans to evolve a resistance to extreme radiation exposure. This could be the beginning of a space faring society in the making as humans become resistive to the ravages of deep space radiation simply by polluting the planet so much that the only way we can survive as a species is to evolve to handle the toxic environment. It has been done before in the history of the planet s there is no reason that we cannot manage it this time too.

Tags: Disaster, e=mc2, Environment, Government, Media, Nuclear, Society, Water by sparky
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