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If one studies Fukushima on a very, very, very detailed fashion, rather than chanting it to try to end all intelligent conversation, one recognizes that such selective attention is, um, criminally insane.
If one studies the chemistry and physics of used nuclear fuels on a profound level using the primary scientific literature, as I have been doing for over 30 years, ever since Chernobyl blew up, thus establishing the upper limit for a nuclear disaster, one recognizes that thinking about so called "nuclear waste" while ignoring dangerous fossil fuel waste, which is killing millions of people per year at an accelerating rate, while people whine about so called "nuclear waste" that hasn't killed anyone, one knows what is and is not criminally insane..
I'm an old man. I read Amory Lovins asinine piece about Molten Salt Tanks to make so called "renewable energy" work in 1976, and I thought, being an uneducated rube, that it made sense. Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?
In 1976, November, when Lovins published his very, very, very stupid paper, the concentration of carbon dioxide, a dangerous fossil fuel waste that is actually causing cities and forests to burst into flame while people whine about Fukushima, was 329.25 ppm, (the week beginning October 31, 1976). This April, we hit 420.01.
That the world bought into Lovins' unfortunate horseshit has represented a crime against humanity.
Half a century of cheering for bourgeois fantasies about a reactionary return to so called "renewable energy" has had no result. It's making things worse, not better.
We've thrown trillions of dollars at this reactionary fantasy. It didn't work. It isn't working. It won't work.
Consider me unimpressed. To my mind, and I've done the work to back it up, as opposed to chanting slogans, opposing nuclear energy is criminally insane.
What happened at Fukushima, where 20,000 people died from seawater - raising the issue of whether coastal cities are safe - and very few, if any, people died from radiation is easily engineered away, just like we engineer away the issues leading to aircraft failure (which have killed far more people than radiation at Fukushima).
I regard the contempt for nuclear engineering, nuclear science, nuclear engineers, and nuclear scientists as criminally insane.
When the nuclear reactors at Fukushima were destroyed, along with buildings, cars, and many other things, by a natural disaster, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere was 391.46 ppm (the week beginning March 6, 2011). Ten years later, exactly, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere - from which no living thing can be isolated - was 416.94 ppm (the week beginning March 7, 2021).
If people cared as much about the growth of the dangerous fossil fuel waste on the entire planet by 25.48 ppm in just ten years, as they do about elevated background radiation from Fukushima - based on very obsessive and rather silly understanding of radiation - the world would not be criminally insane.
But it is criminally insane.
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