We have a very short index of Nuclear News for tonight’s Christmas eve, and I fully understand why that is. I would expect the same for Christmas Day! I see that even an article from the Black Hills Pioneer of South Dakota — a story something about cookies or cookie cutters — made it. I decided to leave it in, but didn’t sign in . . . We are all due for a rest! After all, it may be a timely and well-told story, and I will have a look at it later . . . Merry Christmas to everyone around the globe! ~llaw
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Okay, now after two nights of fairytales and mysterious dreams about somehow saving the world from ourselves, it is time to return to reality and face the world(s) of nuclear war threats, propaganda fabrications, proposed mayhem and chaos that I call the insanity of “All Things Nuclear”. And, truth be known, the imaginary world of the past and future is no more clear than todays lies, threats, and rumors of world war and/or atmospheric extinction.
But first, there is this: “NASA Has a $3.5bn Plan to Save the Planet From the Yellowstone Supervolcano”, and at the same time harness supervolcano energy that could support human energy needs for thousands of years to come. Could it be the 2nd step in using the world’s geothermal energy to entirely do away with both fossil fuels’ CO2/GHG asphyxiation extinction program and/or the uranium/nuclear radiation poisoning extinction program. The 1st step (as I have written about on these Posts several times) has already been taken by science that proves that such a world-wide enterprise, with Yellowstone as the creator/savior, is more than just feasible, but, compared to all other proposed human “fixes” easily, cleanly, and cheaply accomplished. The entire world of futuristic energy developers, including the entire commercial energy business itself should be stumbling all over themselves getting in line to help save themselves and us from an uninhabited dead planet that we have already been facing with no progress for far too long. ~llaw
Scientists at NASA have developed a hugely ambitious strategy to counter the looming threat of an apocalyptic supereruption from the Yellowstone Caldera.
Against such a backdrop, NASA has been working on a plan to counter this potentially far off but ultimately inevitable circumstance, which could be graver than even the nightmare scenario of a planet-devastating asteroid strike.
“I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defence which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets,” researcher Brian Wilcox from the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told the BBC.
“I came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat.”
As recently as 2011, NASA was downplaying the immediate risks of supereruptions, given the staggeringly long timeframes between which they occur – roughly every 100,000 to 1 million years.
This, a NASA guide explains, means that large-scale eruptions from supervolcanoes are “exceedingly rare and the odds that one will occur in the lifetime of anybody reading this article are vanishingly small”.
The good news is those reassuring odds still hold, but consider this: Yellowstone itself is thought to erupt once every 600,000 years or so, and it’s been about that long since its last supereruption.
While the chances of it exploding in any given year remain low, it’s clear we’re edging ever closer to its thermal crisis point.
Which is why scientists at NASA compiled an as yet unpublished report – largely unknown outside the space agency, but seen by the BBC and other media outlets.
Their research concludes that the most logical way to address the threat is to try to cool down the enormous magma chambers inside a supervolcano.
The remaining, unvented heat is trapped inside the supervolcano’s magma chambers, and if enough heat builds up, it can ultimately trigger an explosive supereruption.
EPIC COLD SHOWER
Fortunately, NASA thinks Yellowstone would only need to undergo a 35 percent heat reduction to avert such a catastrophe, and they’ve got an idea for how you could pull off this epic cold shower.
By drilling as far down as 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) deep inside Yellowstone, the space agency thinks it would be possible to pump high-pressure water down into the supervolcano – circulating cool water in, which would absorb scorching levels of heat before being pumped out again.
NASA estimates the piping hot water making the return trip to the surface would have a temperature of about 350 degrees Celsius (662 degrees Fahrenheit) – and there’s something pretty great we could do with all that supervolcanic heat.
“Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh,” Wilcox explained to the BBC.
“[You would] get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years. And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity.”
So, the benefits are not only economic – they’re potentially planet-saving – but the estimated costs of building the project are almost as insurmountable as a supervolcano.
NASA puts the price tag for the infrastructure at about $3.46 billion, but as gargantuan as that fee is, it pales beside an even bigger potential drawback with the plan – which is if something goes wrong.
“If you drill into the top of the magma chamber and try and cool it from there, this would be very risky,” Wilcox said.
“This could make the cap over the magma chamber more brittle and prone to fracture. And you might trigger the release of harmful volatile gases in the magma at the top of the chamber which would otherwise not be released.”
In the worst case scenario, a botched effort to drill inside the supervolcano could hypothetically induce a supereruption, so humanity will have to tread very carefully if it intends to pursue a plan like the one NASA’s come up with.
It’s unclear quite where the strategy is up to, and whether NASA will be officially releasing their report in the near future.
At the very least, Wilcox and his fellow researchers hope that, by talking about their idea, it might encourage a serious scientific discussion around ways to mitigate the impending threat of supervolcanoes.
Because one thing’s for sure – these ancient, colossal time bombs aren’t going anywhere, and their clocks are ticking louder than ever.
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To continue on with a bit more optimism than my pessimistic rant from last night, could it be that humanity might be rescued from our urge to annihilate ourselves? Do we know what other life is out there watching us fail? I have long felt that there is at least one, but perhaps more, similar or other human or human-like species , and of course there are many religions, sciences, philosophies, psychologies, and other human concepts tht have long believed that we are not alone.
There are lots of mindful and physical evidence that we are not alone in the universe, but do we know that whomever or whatever is out there has our best interests at heart? Or could they be looking for a planet of their own to inhabit without us and are only waiting for us to disappear into the sunset? I have some personal experiences reasons to believe that there is at least one kind of transcendent humanoid kind of life that sees some value in us and does not want to watch us destroy our own humanity. Tonight I will tell you just a little of what I believe that may well at least suspend our lemming-line path toward extinction . . . (Note that this “bearing” of the soul is linked to my decision from last night’s commentary to back away from a multitude of military, political, and scientific projects to save our collective selves, since most of it all is only perceived or imagined “what ifs”, or little more believable than describing it all in simple hopeful or wishful thinking and related fictional writings about the future of mankind. The fact is, no one knows the future and we ought to be sick and tired of living top-down propaganda-generated stories about how 30 or 50 years from now we will have succeeded in eliminating what ails us.)
Writing what I wrote last night made me feel a weakness in my own humanity that I had never felt before — at least for two full decades. It made me feel forlorn, or useless, or of no importance to my own human world. It let me know that humans cannot survive as a species without some kind of supervision from somewhere beyond what we know of the universe that we are a tiny part of.
I have, in years past, when I was studying Gnosticism and its relationships to and otherwise opposed to Christianity during which time I came to the conclusion that Christian and Muslim beliefs no longer exists without reasonable questions about authenticity, but that Gnosticism is not the perfect human future either, simply because we don’t know much about what we are talking about because, like in all religions the human hand is writing the stories. So my own concepts and thoughts are based on what they have to be: Fiction. Prophesy is fiction, plain and simple.
So the following is a summary of how my story came to be . . . Two or three times over two or three years (I do know how many, but will generalize here.) in the middle of deep sleep I imagined (or maybe actually experienced) a lovely goddess-like woman appear in my prison cell, or more accurately, a part of her, upside down penetrating, emanating, or somehow radiating through the concrete ceiling, her arms reaching down toward me, her body’s lower half hidden by the ceiling, telling me with a soft but firm English-speaking voice to learn about her and to follow her way in such a manner as the Gnostics described her. Not knowing until a couple of years later that I had no idea what she was talking about I began to write several novels about the feminine way and their desire to create a better human world. And I began to assimilate knowledge of Gnosticism and the feminine way, unsure of just what I was writing about or why until I had written six large related books, all by my own mysteriously guided hand.
After the night of Her final appearance some three years after Her first, a security guard unlocked my cell door and handed a small white, pink, and black paperback book to me, the title of which was “To Be a Woman” edited by someone named Connie Zweig. The book’s spine was broken and many pages were loose, but it seemed to be intact. The Correctional Officer said she had found it during the night lying on the concrete next to my cell door. By the end of that day I had a reasonable idea of what Gnosticism was supposed to be and how they related to the books I had written. At the end of the day I returned the book to what I assumed had been taken from the prison library, but was told by the librarian that there was no such book in the library and to just keep it.
During the following few weeks I had virtually memorized the content of the book and was amazed at how it dove-tailed with my own writings, all of which were all about Gnosticism, and then I was suddenly unexpectedly released from prison. I was thoroughly lost and confused when my attorney told me a few days later that I was no longer a prisoner, and she helped me move my belongings and my personal writings, taking them into her custody including that poor pathetic physically damaged book that had explicitly defined something to me that had never before existed as a title in my life. My lawyer had even rented an apartment for me to live. The entire episode was like a purposeful extension of that visit from an apparition that could penetrate concrete walls and speak with me.
The final time this strange visitation happened, months later, (identically in manner except the roof was not concrete), I began to pay attention, and I soon identified her as Sophia, the subject of that old broken-backed book. In later years when I had finished reading everything I could get my hands on about Sophia and what she stood for in regard to humanity, I began to feel that she was a real person reaching out to me (and maybe, for all I knew, thousands of others one at a time for her same reasons). I read all the Russian philosophy books about her, all the Gnostic stories, the “Gnostic Bible” and the “Nag Hammadi Library”, and all the mythology about her that I could find. And then I sat down and wrote about her – hundreds of pages of how and why she existed to save humanity. Her story was far from ‘divine’, but rather that of a compromised female voluntarily subjecting herself to the depths of humanity to learn what made us whatever we are, and to use her whorish experiences, derived from hubristic men of god, to learn to raise ourselves from ‘trash’ to the transcendent power of moral felicity, kindness, and togetherness that humanity was meant to be.
And then I wrote an entire novel about her, and how it was that the feminine way and higher races of humanity would eventually save us from ourselves. During my commentary last night I realized that without the help we need, we are not capable of saving our own kind, and we have proven it all by being the parasitic ruthless executioners that we are, killing off thousands of species in our wake, not to mention constantly attacking our own kind.
So from Her first visit on, I had written more books about man’s inhumanity to man, and all that writing makes up the other six modern day scenarios of novels I wrote by hand, my hand apparently being guided by a knowledge superior to my own. Yet I couldn’t find a way to end the story. I have searched for the final story since 2005, but it never came to me until I began to remember my own life’s background and my participation in the nuclear industry, and how it came to me that we were going to destroy ourselves unless someone from somewhere stepped up and forced us to become what the meaning of humanity was meant to be . . . I think now I have the final episode lodged in my brain and some of it already written — and it has to do with an unexplained power known by perhaps Einstein and Jung, and probably Tesla, and a few others, including some of it that the old-world Russian philosophers understood, and that much of the philosophical knowledge came from Sophia.
So the nuclear story will be a large part of the essence of my next book of fiction (because there is no other way to tell the story), and the others in between ‘Sweetwater’ and ‘El Nuclear Diablo’ will fill in the blanks and vacuums from what I believe radiation actually is and how it has been misunderstood from then to now and maybe on into forever. The presence of Her radiating through ceilings of concrete as if they were water has enthralled me since 2005 and that’s why I mentioned that date in my rant from last night . . . ~llaw
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How it is that pawns will never rule the world(s) of humanity — as they should . . .
What to say about my thoughts tonight? I have no words that really fit. I spent several hours today contemplating discontinuing this nightly post because it is not moving forward as I once expected it to do. But when I learned tonight that the social security increase was just a miserable 3% for next year, I laughed and threw my personal notification into file 13. But then I got to thinking about all the aging people (and younger ones, too) who rely only on Social Security to live an actual reasonably livable lifestyle. And then I thought about all the other nations’ people on planet Earth who can’t or don’t support their citizens to the degree that we in America pretend to do, and wondered how anyone, including millions of Americans, can continue to survive if they are intentionally cut off from the ability to survive from a decent capitalistic money-driven life-style with no additional financial help from anywhere.
The simple answer that came to mind was, “They can’t.” And then I began to register the on-going, never-ending, latest news stories about street people living all over America in tents near downtown rivers and streams in order to even have the basic pretenses of life that no longer exists, and how local police departments are instructed to tear down their camps and force them to move on to somewhere else. Following those thoughts, I have been reading recently about residents of poor foreign countries, such as Bangladesh, where they are housed as captives by the millions in huge highly populated controlled communities, where they are fed and sheltered (I thought of cattle on a ranch), but never allowed to leave unless they escape.
It was then that I realized that planet Earth’s Mother Nature has lost Her capability to provide humanity with a way of life that forever in past ages has been gradually removed from Her help to a man-made controlling human way of help that is provided by the haves to administer to the have-nots, herding them together like cattle or other domestic animals, and allowing them to survive with only the necessary essentials. And that made me wonder, “For what reason?” These people are not prisoners for committing crimes against other humans, but they are controlled like they are. I thought of slavery, and even slavery, as horrifying as it is, does not fit. And finally I thought of what mankind has done to ourselves by rejecting nature’s way in favor of the ‘human way’, and when I felt the meaning of that emotion sweep over me I knew all the answers to my question.
They are the same answers that I have been writing about for months: We think we are smarter, more intelligent and ingenuous, and that Mother Nature has nothing left to offer us, the elite, in today’s world(s). So my fears of nuclear war or nuclear power plants or fossil fuel plants or the roundups of homeless people or imprisonment of common everyday law abiding citizens and our failing lifestyles for all in favor of the few awakened me with a realization that we are not all in this together, and that humanity is going to fail for failing to respect what nature’s world(s) have to offer . . . And that my pleas for “oneness” may well never happen because humanity has nothing to do with the meaning of humanity.
It all brought me back to my own sense of reality that I have been denying within even myself (but always recognizing), but only capturing that reality in many stories over the years that I have written about man’s inhumanity to man, mainly for just myself. Soon, though, I will be publishing a novel in two parts that provides an analogy on a small, but important, scale that demonstrates how mankind has greedily dismissed humanity for something one might call “superiority”, or “imperialism”, or maybe even “supremacy”, meaning that the poor pathetic ‘pawns’ of us should remain, always, the “useless, downtrodden, and underprivileged”.
So it is, that when I laughed about my annualized 3% increase in my social security compared to cost of living indices for housing and food as much as ten times that, and growing, that it occurred to me that if I had only my social security to live on, I could not live. And what about those who have no social security at all? There is no way that they can spend their days worrying about the cause of the coming 6th Extinction. In fact many of our species may very well welcome it. So, in my depression tonight, I have to say that my heartfelt wish for the ‘world(s) of humanity to join as ‘one’ will never happen.
But, even so, I am not giving up — only regressing to the messages from my heartfelt stories —and the first one you will be able to see and read tells you quite a lot about American human life in the late 1800s, and the one following that will tell you about what an overly optimistic post-nuclear world might look like from, say, 2005, on into the future. And, if there is still a future after that, there are six or seven other stories, within the historical reality of human nature, about man’s all-inclusive inhumanity to man, and how it all has to end someday whether for the better or for the worse . . . ~llaw
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”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity
LLAW’s COMMENTS TONIGHT
Tonight, for several reasons, I am reposting my nightly Post from November 21 (two days before my 82nd birthday) last month for those several reasons that seem to be more important, if not the only possibilities, for the last minute rescue of humanity and other life on planet Earth.
This Post will reinforce my long held belief that if humanity is to save itself and will also provide my readers with more information regarding why I so strongly feel this way. It will also allow me to condense my range of Posts, allowing me to concentrate on the precise issues I see as essential to avoid the 6th Extinction (which could well arrive before even the first full step is ever taken in realm of “getting serious” about saving ourselves from both nuclear weapons and nuclear power (radiation from nuclear fallout) and fossil fuel power (asphyxiation from CO2 and other greenhouse gasses). This will allow me to leave the current news (also Posted nightly) concerning our grave situation from “All Things Nuclear” for your own reading and concerns for what is clearly happening from day to day. So the race between survival and extinction is presented here as current events and also as future events — the future events being a study and understanding that there is only one way to turn this self-created doomsday around in time to accomplish a last ditch effort for survival.
There are three elements to my plan for survival, and they will require total cooperation and yet both individual and collective effort from virtually the entire world(s)’ population. Otherwise we will perish very soon or someday not far down the road. The days of ‘dear leaders’, political decisions, military concepts, and personal insurrection and their universal ‘empty promises and agreements’ are over because human history has proven forever that they don’t work, The three main issues that I will concentrate and write about include my own and others’ views concerning how to go about the basics of surviving (I call it the “Blue Print”) to forever rid ourselves of “All Things Nuclear”, and all burning of both fossil fuels and radioactive uranium (which is also a fossil fuel). Secondly there is the time factor, and time is of the essence. Third is a the mass movement of humanity to save ourselves from extinction by continuing on down the trail of life to live as selfish and greedy independent individuals to the extent that such things as corporate capitalism, war and other subversion among our species, and a world-wide communal effort to turn around and go back the other way in order to survive. We know what is wrong; we just don’t have the initiative to admit it, and by doing so, force ourselves to cooperate as a common world-wide society, which is what we should have been doing from day one. Everyone must understand that we are “one”.
If we can’t manage a universal co-op way of life in all our dealings with one another, we can forget about it . . . ~llaw
[Why Yellowstone is a bonus Post to this “All Things Nuclear” Nightly Production. It and others could be a way out if we act soon enough.]
To my way of thinking, the Yellowstone Caldera (and others around the planet) may be by far the best chance to foil doomsday, as the ultimately successful solution to forging ahead, forgetting about the world-wide fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, as well as fossil fuels and their greenhouse gas global warming effect. It is incorporated into my “Blue Print” plan for destroying all things nuclear “Management”.
As for the Yellowstone Caldera and all the rest of them having their own life-ending potential, at least their devastating capability is not created by the activity of our human selves, and there is also the caveat concerning the ability to cool and control the destructive power of calderas by harnessing and using their natural power production that would reduce their potential to ‘boil over’, making them safer in the long run than we currently believe. Their collective power could comfortably provide enough electricity for the entire planet forever. Yellowstone alone could well support electrical power plants all over both of the American continents for hundreds of years. And there are others, such as the Long Valley caldera in western California, less than 800 miles southwest of Yellowstone. There are also several large calderas in South America. And the largest one of all is located in the Philippines. There are dozens of others around the world, some more active than Yellowstone. And harnessing them for power generation is much easier than one would tend to think. Yellowstone provides an example of how power generation could work by tapping the ready-made steam of calderas that could provide the heat to create electricity all by themselves. I will provide that video in a future Post of “All Things Nuclear”. You can also track it down yourself is you’ve a mind to, which might whet your interests by making the effort to broaden your scope and knowledge of our harrowing world crises from all things nuclear to its cousins, the other fossil fuels.
What follows is a brief primer considering the potential of developing the Yellowstone caldera and other similar calderas to provide all the electrical power we could ever need, and by doing so perhaps saving us in two ways from the 6th Extinction . . .
The following article by Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo, gives us reinforcing look that the Earth’s human world(s)might well be able to get along without any fossil fuels, including uranium (nuclear fuel). The cooling affect of volcanic activity in the calderas might also allow us to live without fear of devastation from calderas such as the Yellowstone. The question is, though, can humanity buy into such an effort rather than go to war and more wars over who controls the potential natural energy production, needing only a delivery grid system. Could we possibly come together and create a global free energy program without letting greed and greenbacks get in the way? ~llaw
Supervolcano Could Solve the Climate and Energy Crises
SHARE THIS ARTICLE: Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano: A Solution to the Climate and Energy Crises
Scientists propose a new and revolutionary method to harness the Yellowstone’s supervolcano., and generate enough electricity to power the American continent.
With the dawn of the 3rd decade of the 21st century, humanity is embarking on a 2nd Renaissance.”
— Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo
MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, December 10, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The climate crisis poses a major threat to human civilization. Burning fossil fuels to generate energy is the primary cause of this crisis, due to greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, our energy requirements are expected to grow significantly in the future, as would be expected.
At the same time, we face another great crisis. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming lies a powerful supervolcano, which has the guaranteed potential for an eruption that will be catastrophic to the entire world.
Researchers Dr Thomas Arciuolo and Dr Miad Faezipour propose a solution to these problems, by harnessing the mighty energy reserve within the Yellowstone Supervolcano to generate clean, emission-free energy.
The team’s proposed technology would generate phenomenal amounts of electricity – enough to power the entire American continent. Their plan would also cool the supervolcano’s magma chamber, preventing a super-eruption. NASA has predicted that cooling the magma by just 35% would prevent such a calamity. The project would also generate thousands of jobs and ensure energy-independence for the USA.
(Note: Concerning jobs creation, the total number of jobs lost would far outdistance the new jobs created. However, there would be thousands upon thousand of alternative jobs created by getting rid of all things nuclear as well as fossil fuel plants, mining reclamation, and ancillary supportive occupations ~llaw)
The proposed copper-based, volcanic energy harvesting technology has the potential to produce triple the USA’s predicted energy requirements for 2050. The excess power could be sold to other countries on the American continent for profit, and to fund the facility’s construction.
Arciuolo and Faezipour’s pioneering technology has been fully simulated, to prove that its methodology is both practical and efficient. The use of volcanoes to generate power has already proved successful in Iceland and Hawaii.
Harvesting energy from Yellowstone’s supervolcano would provide safer and more dependable power than any form of energy used today, including solar, wind, and nuclear. The team’s technology would not only generate huge profits, but it would also prevent a catastrophic eruption, while significantly mitigating the climate crisis and meeting the American continent’s energy needs for the years and centuries to come.
This technology could be adopted globally by other nations to provide a world-wide solution to climate change and energy production.
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Well, now, our ex-president, D. J. Trump, who swears he cannot tell a lie, llolloll, has it all figured out , and we who read this Post every night need to have a bit of humor and delight injected once in a while to help keep us somewhat sane. Trump says we are close to beginning WWIII in one breath (which means either he doesn’t know what he’s talking about or he is lying about what he does know — or both). He is also apparently continuing to say that he can prevent WWIII “very easily”, and that he is the only ‘candidate’ who can do so. (He has been saying so for over 9 months, so maybe WWIII is not quite so close at hand.) . . .
Why would anyone ever doubt anything he says? The Washington Post has counted the ways. He even says he actually won the election of all election when he ran against Obama. That skipped my mind somehow . . .
So it is a shame that Colorado has removed him from running for the presidency next year, and I suspect other states will follow suit. So it doesn’t matter that we will never again hear him tell another presidential lie, including the one about how he can easily prevent WWIII. (Which, in reality, would have meant that a nuclear WWIII would have been a sure thing — simply because he said it wouldn’t.).
So, for now at least, there remains a thin chance that nuclear war will not happen! But the world(s) of reality are that we have other pressing issues to tend to as well. Good-day Mr. Trump, and thanks for never telling another presidential lie. ~llaw
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Solving the death-defying mission of weaning ourselves from and reversing our daily march toward the 6th Extinction requires the active cooperation of every human on planet Earth. Saving ourselves is not just for the egghead academics, the power-consuming industries and manufacturers, the capitalistic banks, the protestors, the technological scientists, nor the power supply companies that can’t keep up with the demand from the rest of us, and so it goes on and on and on, but also exposed to you and me and our neighbors down the street. And we assume there is nothing we can do about it.
If humanity, and therefore most other innocent life on Earth, is going to survive, we — the ones who are creating this doomsday issue — must join the effort with no exceptions or we will fail. We can’t have “pie-in-the-sky” worldly political or military agreements made by politicians and self-important leaders who only pretend to “one-day in the future” accomplish this life-or-death purpose. Because if we rely on ‘agreements’, ‘compacts’, “promises”, “deterrence”, “handshakes”, and ‘I do’s”, no progress will ever be made. Why? Because ‘failure’ is built into everyone of these kinds of mutual well-intentioned but impossible to achieve concepts. It happens every time an international conference on such issues is held, including the just completed CO28 conference in Dubai where multiple, but not all, nations agreed to increase nuclear power energy by a multiple of three times by 2050.
I can assure you, and most of those who signed on to the agreement, already know it will never happen. As an example, a similar agreement was made in 2009 from which not one resolution from that agreement has been accomplished, enacted or resolved. This “by 2050 declaration” will be the same (partly because it is impossible as has been pointed out in two previous nightly Posts — and because it’s all about nuclear energy, I am very glad to watch it fail — even though I won’t still be around in 2050 because my concerns will have permanently expired. But maybe yours and your kids and theirs’ will still be ‘facing the music’ if you’ve not already joined me by radiation and/or asphyxiation.
We, you, me, and the family down the street know what is wrong because we see it every day wherever we go, staring us in the same shame-faced flabby shape of over-indulgence. We are over-indulging ourselves to our immanent deaths because if only a few of us stop stuffing ourselves full of comforting energy, but the others don’t, we are, like all the others, the ones who also suffer on our own self-imposed diet that nobody else pays any attention to. So we all lose together as one . . .
My point is that we all — and I mean all — have to join the clean-up energy consumption party or we all die because once the Earth is polluted to a rapidly approaching certain point, we have no other place to go, so we all share the same fate, and as Pogo has warned us over and over, “We have found the enemy and he is us.” We need to remember that humans, like other animals, once lived like those other animals and survived quite well with what Mother Nature had to offer, but this idea of living our lives beyond what She has to offer is nothing more than self-inflicted death. We have created our own hell-fire and brimstone right here on this extremely gorgeous and generous and easily livable planet, and if we don’t realize that as a mutual admiration society, we will soon pay the consequences. Perhaps it will happen in what remains of my own lifetime. ~llaw
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Additional support from the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” relative to my Post last night that the agreement for increasing nuclear power by three times its present capacity by 2050 will never happen . . . ~llaw
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The decision text from Cop28 has been greeted as “historic”, for being the first ever call by nations for a “transition away” from fossil fuels, and as “weak and ineffectual” and containing a “litany of loopholes” for the fossil fuel industry. An examination of the text helps to explain this contradiction.
Reducing fossil fuel use
The text states the huge challenge with crystal clarity:
Limiting global warming to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] with no or limited overshoot requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to the 2019 level and reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. [Countries] further recognise the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5C pathways.
The problem is that carbon emissions are not plunging as required – they are still rising. So the text on action is vital. The previous draft suggested measures that countries “could” take. The final agreement is somewhat stronger and “calls on” countries to do the following:
Tripling renewable energy capacity globally and doubling the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030.
This is good but, due to objections by China and India, fails to quantify the goals. That means countries could choose whatever baseline suits them, undermining the target.
Accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power.
This is no stronger than the text from Cop26 in 2021, which is disappointing as the dirtiest fossil fuel must unquestionably be phased out rapidly. Next in the decision text comes the pivotal paragraph:
Transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.
Extraordinary as it might seem, this is the first time the root cause of the climate crisis – fossil fuels – have been cited in a decision text in nearly 30 years of UN climate talks. But “transitioning away” is weaker than “phasing out”. The latter was supported by 130 countries but fiercely opposed by petrostates. In the real world, fossil fuels are actually being phased up, with many new fields being exploited. Is “transitioning away” a strong enough signal to halt these investments? Probably not, but at least the direction of travel is finally clear.
Accelerating zero- and low-emission technologies, including, inter alia, renewables, nuclear, abatement and removal technologies such as carbon capture and utilisation and storage (CCUS), particularly in hard-to-abate sectors, and low-carbon hydrogen production.
Fossil fuel states such as Saudi Arabia pushed very hard to include CCUS, as they see it as a way to continue their lucrative business, with the emissions being trapped and buried. But the vast majority of leaders and scientists see an extremely limited role for CCUS; it is expensive, currently far from the scale required, and does not even trap all emissions. The idea that it can allow fossil fuel firms to continue anything like business as usual is a “fantasy”, says the boss of the International Energy Agency.
Subsidising the fossil fuels that drive global heating has been compared to pouring petrol on a fire: coal, oil and gas get $7tn a year in support – that is $13m a minute.
Phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that do not address energy poverty or just transitions, as soon as possible.
This is the first time such a call has appeared in a global UN decision, but “inefficient” is seen as a weasel word enabling nations to largely do as they please. The G20 promised the same in 2009, with no progress to date.
Another weasel word is “transitional fuels” – it is code for fossil gas.
Recognises that transitional fuels can play a role in facilitating the energy transition while ensuring energy security.
This is the biggest win for the fossil fuel industry – it almost amounts to a poison pill in the agreement. It legitimises gas burning on the basis that it is less polluting than coal, though liquefied natural gas (LNG) may actually be even worse than coal due to methane leaks. It is worth noting that the US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, is planning a huge LNG expansion. The time for transitional fuels is long past; renewables are cheaper, faster and more secure.
What is missing from the text is as important as what is in it, most importantly on finance. Money is needed to build out clean energy (mitigation), prepare vulnerable communities for escalating climate impacts (adaptation) and for recovery after disasters (loss and damage). The text acknowledges that trillions of dollars of investment will be needed, but fails to provide numbers on what will be provided and when. Without funding, all talk of climate action is cheap.
A global plan for adaptation, in UN-speak, was the top priority for some of the most vulnerable countries. But the text is weak and lacks specifics.
One last concern relates to ending the destruction of forests.
Results-based payments for policy approaches and positive incentives for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.
This text raises the spectre of rich nations paying to restore or protect forests in developing nations rather than reducing their own emissions
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”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
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LLAW’s ISSUES & THOUGHTS TONIGHT:
Tonight’s big news appears (from the repetitive headlines) to be the U.S. warning to North Korea concerning ending the present regime if Kim Jong un should attack us with nuclear weapons. We don’t seem to realize that should they do that and we do that that WWIII would be immediately under way, so such a threat is inane. Idle threats result from loud-mouth ignorance and every nation in the nuclear world knows it. So why the hell does it go on? It’s like a shouting match between a man and his wife, and not much more, for sure.
By far the most important ‘real’ news is the 5 year extension of life for PG&E‘s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California at Avila Beach near San Luis Obispo. This is a guaranteed ‘pure nuclear accident waiting to happen’. And just remember, we are all downwind from California’s (or, if you will, the entire western coast of the Pacific ocean’s) last commercially operating nuclear power plant, and as we know, anything and everything PG&E touches turns to eventual death, including human. Their record is so bad that the company should have been put out of business years and years ago.
I recently re-capped their never-ending death and destruction calamities over the years in one of these Posts – offering a warning for the safety of not only our entire country but other nations around the world as well. (I must build an online catalogue and index of links to my now nearly 500 consecutive nightly posts about the calamity of “All Things Nuclear”, so that you all can instantly go to any Post to follow up on Posts that become renewed important issues . . . and ‘all things PG&E is one of the most serious of them all. (Over the year and beyond since I began this nightly “All Things Nuclear” Post I have written more than half a dozen informative articles of concerns about PG&E’s record of ‘oblivion’ and the fear, now apparently a reality, that their Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s operating life would be extended. And now it has happened — against all odds — just as I feared.)
This is a tragedy waiting to happen, and I will tell you that the plant has already proven its instability by leaking nuclear radioactivity from cracks in its concrete reactor walls that the company has been forced to report themselves. Keep in mind that it is the last commercially functioning nuclear power plant on the western shores of the Pacific ocean from the Aleutian Islands to the north to the southern tip of Tierra Del Fuego. The year 2025 was dangerous enough to wait for the nuclear power plant’s shut down, but an extension of 5 more years? It amounts to unbelievable irresponsibility by both the our federal government and the state of California. ~llaw
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LLAW’s THOUGHTS TODAY:
We seem to collectively forget or ignore the fact that nuclear power plants use fuel for the same raw source as other fossil fuel power plants, e.g. coal, oil, and gas. We all recognize that these greenhouse gas emitting plants not only are the primary factors in global warming and climate change and that fossil fuels are not renewable, meaning that at some point we will have used them all up forever.
So, what do we do to ‘remedy’ the problems fossil fuels now and on into the future have for us? We turn to uranium for the remedy of the future, in denial about the realit8ies that uranium is also a fossil fuel, that it can and will cause greater environmental damage than its cousins, and that it is also non-renewable to a degree far more critical than the other fossil fuels.
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I can’t help but laugh at how foolish we are to believe that nuclear power plants are the remedy and the “permanent” solution to end global warming and climate change. Nothing could be farther from the truth, yet the United States leads a group of some 28 other nations to triple the number of operating nuclear power plants by 2050, making laugh again and louder. It is even more foolish than believing Daylight Savings Time (DST) makes our daylight longer so we foolishly set our clocks forward or backward twice a year when all we need do is change our schedules for the various and sundry things we do.
But there is a much greater problem with the idea of nuclear power plants saving us from global warming without even recognizing the obvious major one — annihilating ourselves. This one has to do with supply and demand and its association to availability and cost of the fuel for nuclear power plants. It’s called uranium 235. Like other fuels, uranium has a grade school that go from military grade down to nuclear plant grade sort of like the gasoline you buy. But high grade uranium around the world has already been mostly mined and used up, leaving lesser grades (and therefore more expensive to produce and refine as we use more and more of it. Without getting technical, this plainly tells us two things: the price of the fuel will spiral out of sight and one day there won’t be any of it left to mine, process, and burn.
And so you see? There is no way that can triple our uranium power production by three times what it is today unless we want to bankrupt the world while increasing the risk of global radiation replacing what we now call fossil fuel. We would buy ourselves into our own version of the next version of Earth’s extinctions. We are simply lying to ourselves about resolving our death-defying climate cures. The fact is there is only one answer — and that is to stop doing what we are doing or else we suffocate and radiate ourselves to certain death no matter whether it be nuclear war, nuclear and fossil fuel mixed together, or all three.
But for the immediate future the plan doesn’t work either — because Russia controls 80% plus of the world’s nuclear reactor and plant manufacturing, including the fuel. The USA already long been forced to buy uranium fuel from Russia in order to continue to operate our existing nuclear power plants. So what do we do about it? Again, I can only laugh.
I remember when the uranium price was fixed by the government at $8.00 a pound with a slightly upward sliding scale for lower grade mining and milling operations. I also remember the price of that same uranium rising to $40.00 per pound after the government began to allow uranium producing corporations and nuclear power plants to negotiate prices among themselves. Today the price is $57.65, up from $53.20 last month and up from $41.30 one year ago. What will the price be if we triple the capacity of nuclear plants while Russia corners the price and the availability of the product? The price will naturally go higher as the grade of uranium ore grows lower. And Russia controls the nuclear world both militarily and commercially. This USA dream is actually a terrible nightmare.
So it is that, along with other reasons too numerous to bother to mention tonight, you can see on the face of cost alone that tripling the capacity of nuclear power plants is cost prohibitive in this and so many other prohibitive ways that the agreement made by the U.S. and 21 other nations (pledging to triple nuclear generation capacity by 2050 was signed on December 2nd by 22 countries at the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Dubai, including the US, Canada, Japan, France, the UK and the UAE) ain’t never gonna happen . . . ~llaw
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