PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant at Avila Beach on the California Coast
LLAW’s THOUGHTS TONIGHT:
What is it about PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric Company) that makes them by far the most dangerous utility power company on the planet? — yes this is the same outfit that has caused so much damage in California, and other border states for what seems like forever — burning down cities, poisoning the inhabitants of a city, blowing up cities — the list of critical death-filled mistakes, fabrications, and careless operations has bankrupted them multiple times over the years, yet here they are being approved to extend the operating life of the only commercial nuclear power plant still operating in California, outrageously being permitted to continue for five more years after its scheduled shutdown and mothballing in 2025 and, as a bonus, given billions of operating dollars to do so by both the U.S. government and the State of California.
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Now, just this morning, the city of San Francisco and surrounds woke up to a no-power morning from PG&E. My own phone was entirely filled with articles, columns, emergency warnings, outraged businesses and private citizens alike . . . (and I live a few hundred miles east in Nevada near the California border, llolloll!) I took screenshot after screenshot of the public outrage, not bothering to read any details because who wants to wake up to a world full of anger the very first thing in the morning. But, I thought, “here we go again . . .”
I have written several opinion pieces here on “All Things Nuclear”, including an expansive report on all the the disasters, tears, human and property damage, and outrage PG&E has done over the years, wondering all the while why the company is still allowed to operate — especially with an extremely controversial West Coast nuclear power plant that the entire United States of America, Canada, and including California itself is downwind from. The nuclear power plant, located at Avila Beach in southern California, which has been known to have radiation-leaking cracks in the reactor walls and is well past its ability to remain safe (if it ever was), and to be allowed to continue operating for 5 extended years because California needs all the power it can get is beyond irresponsible. And, as I said, both California and the United States governments have endorsed the extension and given the company with the worst reputation in the history of public utilities ever a huge cash bonus to spread their potential treachery for 5 more years.
Thousands upon thousands of people in San Francisco surrounding cities, businesses, were without power for most of the day and some still are. PG&E said the power failure was because of an incoming storm, but the storm had not even arrived when multiple cities lost power in the greater Bay Area, I will leave it up to PG&E and you to answer the questions, but PG&# routinely lies about what went wrong — although they have routinely been caught in the act and have paid the consequences of damage and death over an over and over again.
I normally wouldn’t make such a big to-do about a huge (reason unknown) outage like this one, but PG&E has been on my nuclear watch for several years now, and I have no intention of ignoring any of their spine-tingling, corrupt, dangerous, and erratic ways of doing business. Their nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon should be shut down as scheduled, because if it isn’t there will, no doubt, be “Hell” to pay . . . ~llaw
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As the history of our “modern” world comes to its annual trip around out life-giving sun carrying tons of unnecessary dangerous baggage for unnecessary reasons in every nook and cranny of our day-to-day lives I can only wish us all a better way of life for the coming trip. We all know what to do, so ought we not do it?
How we fare is, so far as I know, apparently entirely up to us, and eventually our errant ways will come to a final end one way or another. That is our destiny, so my thoughts are always on our insane worldly tendency to always add more nasty baggage to our trip every time around instead of sensibly shedding it as we go from our day-to-day lives. We all know what needs to be done, so what keeps us from doing it?
We all know what the baggage contains, so why do we keep it? Why do we hoard it? One day soon, when the sun sets on that final opportunity we had to set our collective human lives in order, we will rue the memories of the chances we allowed to slip away from us because humanity had its “golden” opportunity and literally allowed it all to consume us, taking along with us all other kinds of innocent life in the overburdened wake of our baggage. ~llaw
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So tonight, and I suppose, till the end of this week there will be dozens of year-end media recaps of 2023’s trek through the days of fear, anger, confusion, random lies, dissolving paper agreements once more or less honored among nations, and, worst of all, an international move toward a silly belief that nuclear power is the way to solve our problem with greenhouse gasses that is far more dangerous on a day-to-day basis than the affects of global warming, climate change, and foreclosure of life ever thought of being? We are making a huge mistake by believing this never-ending, never scientifically harshly derided, ignorantly always promoted and often believed by those listening to commercial industry propaganda, that nuclear power is the darling of the future. We could live so long . . .
And yet we are doing so at a time of nuclear unrest full of war threats that include the use of existing nuclear power plants, their waste, and their reactors as weapons of mass destruction — exactly like their big brother arsenals – the nuclear bombs – of a possible, if not probable, WWIII. And, once (or ounce) again, why do we think that uranium (the fuel for all things nuclear) is anything different than all other fossil fuels when it all comes from the same source as the the other other environmental 5th Extinction elements? Someone knew what they needed to do to purify this beautiful planet Earth in order to prosper for themselves. Who could it be back then? Could it have been us seeking habitable life — the very same ones who’ve lost our way? ~llaw
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I have a question. When we achieve nuclear fusion, but outside a laboratory, such as we apparently did this December inside the laboratory of the Livermore Labs in California, what will we do with it? As this video happens to mention early on, “What could possibly go wrong?” This video will help you to understand the futility of it all.~llaw
Mostly and realistically, this is pie-in-the-sky and will never become commercially viable nor will it solve our existing environmental problems for unpredictable human lifetimes into the future. We already know we are incapable of dealing with fission as practical manner, so what makes us think we can learn to control fusion, which functions in the same manner as our sun. Somehow, I don’t think we are quite there yet, and of course Einstein and Oppenheimer knew that and that we had already gone too far with the Manhattan Project . . . Caged in a laboratory, such experiments may be ‘almost’ safe, but what happens when we turn it loose, either accidentally or purposefully, upon ourselves? ~llaw
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Just a few more stories tonight than I’d expected on a Christmas day, and such stories as the one about using nuclear rockets to destroy incoming asteroids makes me laugh with sarcasm. Sounds like a great script for a new Michael Crichton movie, llolloll! If the dinosaurs had had that capability, we humans would never have evolved only to find that nuclear radiation was was what killed them off and that their demise allowed us to arrive and eventually get to know all about nuclear radiation causing the 5th Extinction. With our ‘tinkering’ help, of course, the same could be the reason for the coming 6th Extinction. Where did we get the laughable idea that we are intelligent enough to control “All Things Nuclear”? We don’t even know what to do with our nuclear power plant waste, much less how to control such things as nuclear weapons, fusion, and fission . . .
My largest issue of concern, as always, is to consider the power of “All Things Nuclear” to be our friend, ally, and savior, when, in fact it is exactly the opposite. We have no idea what we are doing with such an element that arrived here by accident in the first place . . . ~llaw
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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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There are 5 categories (plus a bonus category at the end for news about the Yellowstone caldera and others that also play an important role in humanity’s lives) as do ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 linked most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none. The Categories are listed below in their usual appearing order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear War
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera(There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in tonight’s Post.)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (per above). There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in this Post. If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today.
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