Wildfires 'edge closer to Chernobyl nuclear plant'
Source: BBC
Forest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say.
Tour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said one had reached the abandoned town of Pripyat, which used to serve the plant.
It was now just 2km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored.
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More than 300 firefighters with dozens of pieces of special hardware are reportedly working at the site, while six helicopters and planes are attempting to extinguish the fire from above.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52274242
And ... "Police said the fire had been burning since the weekend of 4 April, after a man set fire to dry grass near the exclusion zone."
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I did not know that. 
She was living in Florida. Got a good promotion to move to the Springs. I told her living in Colorado is a promotion all by itself..
We went to the Women's March in DC together. She just might flip the Spings.. 
Would a fire spread radiation around? 
...energy.
Again, many of my thoughts on this subject are contained in my journal.
The central argument is that the low energy to mass ratio, as well as the requirement for the use of dangerous fossil fuels to process these materials, as well as their unacceptably short life times, makes solar and wind unsustainable and environmentally unacceptable.
Here is what I often say: There is a reason that humanity abandoned so called "renewable energy" in the early 19th century. The reason is that even more so than today, the overwhelming majority of human beings lived short, unhealthy lives in dire poverty.
The failure of the uncritical belief that so called "renewable energy" will save the day is written in the planetary atmosphere. We have spent in the last decade, more than two trillion dollars on solar and wind energy, with the result that the accumulations of carbon dioxide are accelerating, not declining.
I provided the data most recently here this weekend: New Record Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory 416.45 ppm. I note, in some terror, as discussed in that post, that we are now scraping the unbelievable rate of increase in carbon dioxide concentrations of 2.5 ppm per year. This compares with a rate of 1.0 - 1.5 ppm as recently as the 20th century.
This is what we have to show for trillions of dollars.
These trillions of dollars - two trillion dollars is more than the GDP of India, a nation with 1.3 billion people in it - were spent on so called "renewable energy," this on a planet where close to two billion people lack access to even primitive sanitary systems.
The data detailing these expenditures is found here:
Source: UNEP/Bloomberg Global Investment in Renewable Energy, 2019
Here is the breakdown of energy use and growth on this planet in the 21st century:
In this century, world energy demand grew by 179.15 exajoules to 599.34 exajoules.
In this century, world gas demand grew by 50.33 exajoules to 137.03 exajoules.
In this century, the use of petroleum grew by 34.79 exajoules to 188.45 exajoules.
In this century, the use of coal grew by 63.22 exajoules to 159.98 exajoules.
In this century, the solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy on which people so cheerfully have bet the entire planetary atmosphere, stealing the future from all future generations, grew by 9.76 exajoules to 12.27 exajoules.
12.27 exajoules is slightly over 2% of the world energy demand.
2019 Edition of the World Energy Outlook Table 1.1 Page 38] (I have converted MTOE in the original table to the SI unit exajoules in this text.)
Here is a table of sources of energy that I prepared from the International Energy Agency’s 2017, 2018, and 2019 Editions of the World Energy Outlook:
While the enthusiasm for so called "renewable energy" continues unabated, at the expense of all future generations, it is also clear that so called "renewable energy" is an expensive failure, at least if the goal is to displace dangerous fossil fuels and/or address climate change. It didn't work. It isn't working. It won't work.
Then, any news of an alleged forest fire will vanish. Anyone attempting to start rumors about alleged forest fires will accidentally fall out of windows.
Trump would give the Ukrainian government all the support he gave the Kurds.
