Our Oceans are Under Attack

Revive the Nuclear Dream

I recently read a short article in the June issue of Popular Science about building an even better Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor that is claimed to be virtually accident-proof and can run on the spent fuel of other reactors. It spoke of 2 students that rummaged back thru old articles and studies in the MIT library, and come up with some very new ideas on reviving the nuclear dream with greatly improved molten salt reactors.
I went a little further on the internet and found these related articles.

Nuclear energy is at a crossroads.

One path sends brilliant engineers like Leslie and Mark forward, applying their boundless skills and infectious optimism to world-changing technologies that have the potential to solve our energy problems while also fueling economic development and creating new jobs.

The other path keeps the nuclear industry locked in unadaptable technologies that will lead, inevitably, to a decline in our major source of carbon-free energy.

The chance to regain our leadership in nuclear energy, to walk on the path once trod by the engineers and scientists of the 1950s and ’60s, will not last forever. It is up to those who make decisions on matters concerning funding and regulation to strike while the iron is hot.

This is not pie-in-the-sky thinking—we have done this before. At the dawn of the nuclear age, we designed and built reactors that tested the range of possibility. The blueprints then languished on the shelves of places like the MIT library for more than fifty years until Leslie Dewan, Mark Massie and other brilliant engineers and scientists thought to revive them.

With sufficient funding and the appropriate technical and political leadership, we can offer the innovators and entrepreneurs of today the chance to use those designs to power the future.

http://www.newsweek.com/young-turks-who-are-reviving-nuclear-power-292932

http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2014/backtothefuture?cid=%2000900013020016101US0001#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

 

The Weather Channel Confronts Republicans on Climate Change | Slate

The Weather Channel Presents THE CLIMATE 25

 

Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...intervention-transforms-climate-change-debate

Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday.

In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanity’s exploitation of the planet’s resources has crossed the Earth’s natural boundaries, and that the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The much-anticipated message, which will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops, will be published online in five languages on Thursday and is expected to be the most radical statement yet from the outspoken pontiff.

However, it is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing rich elites, say cardinals and scientists who have advised the Vatican.

The Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and a close ally of the pope, will launch the encyclical. He has said it will address the root causes of poverty and the threats facing nature, or “creation”.

In a recent speech widely regarded as a curtain-raiser to the encyclical, Turkson said: “Much of the world remains in poverty, despite abundant resources, while a privileged global elite controls the bulk of the world’s wealth and consumes the bulk of its resources.”

 

our aceans are under attack

Every one has their own Agenda regarding Global Warming but who can we believe and how do we get the right answers to suit our personal needs.
Thermal insulation works both ways.Keeps your home cold or keeps your home warm unless you install expensive to run and install heating and cooling and ventilating systems.

Thermal mas walls inside a home work both ways too, makes your home cool while absorbing the heat from inside your home.
And any heat exchange can only work when there is a heat difference temperature. Heat only moves from hot to cold areas.

 

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg argues the climate change fight isn't worth the cost | Globe and Mail

 

WOW, that's GREAT,....at last someone with gonads

 

And the Republicans have told the Pope to 'butt out'
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/all-things-boats-and-boating/our-oceans-under-attack-27446-132.html#post740240

More Republicans joine in.....ha...ha,....what jerks
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/climate-change-conservatives-catholic-teaching

 

This businessman thinks he can change the GOP’s mind on climate change | Washington Post

 

I hate to be cynical, but I feel like it just another political trick to side with a particular point of view for reelection purposes, then go back to your old ways once you get elected,....seen it over and over again.

I think its also referred to as 'two-faced', or maybe they should just say two-tongued.

 

Lomborg is notorious for dishonest use of data and arguments. Also, his economic analyses depend on assumptions that are hidden.

For example, if you are trying to estimate costs and using GDP as a basis, any effects on rich countries will have a greater effect in dollars than effects on poor countries. Similarly for rich people vs poor people, because rich people can make more money. This skews any analysis towards protecting the rich and leaving the poor screwed. Lomborg's supposedly humanitarian economics-based arguments are anything but humanitarian.

Oh and the other fun fact about Lomborg is that his seven Nobel laureates that he still claims to work with might be difficult to work with in practice. Two of them have been dead for years.

If you look around you can find heaps about Lomborg. Examples:

Bjorn Lomborg’s consensus approach is blind to inequality

The Australian Consensus Centre: what are the costs and benefits to UWA?

 

Roman Abramovich among 'dirty dozen' people with biggest stakes in coal

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...irty-dozen-people-with-biggest-stakes-in-coal

The Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich is among a super-rich list of 12 investors whose combined coal holdings are equivalent to the entire annual emissions of China, the world’s biggest polluter, a Guardian analysis has found.

Top of the “dirty dozen” list is Vinod Shantilal Adani, who has a $900m (£581m) stake in Indian coal giant Adani Enterprises. His share of the company’s coal reserves will produce 2GT of carbon dioxide when sold and burned, the same as India’s 1.2 billion people produce in a year. Adani’s company is also behind the vast Galilee basin coal project in Australia.

 

Pope warns of 'unprecedented damage' from climate change in leaked encyclical document

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...e-in-leaked-encyclical-document-10322156.html

In an extraordinarily frank document, the Pope lambasts rich countries for “looting” the world and takes aim at bankers and climate sceptics for accelerating its decline.

He warns that the world is facing widespread crop failure, economic ruin, mass migration and the destruction of entire eco-systems.

Although the first ever encyclical on the environment concentrated heavily on the natural world, the pope repeatedly linked climate change with the plight of the poor.

“The warming caused by the enormous consumption of some rich countries has repercussions in the poorest places on earth, especially in Africa, where the increase in temperature, combined with drought, has had disastrous effects on the performance of crops,” the pope wrote.

Pope Francis is also extremely concerned about the prospect of mass migration of animals, plants and humans as global warming means they cannot function in their traditional habitat.

 

We have six months to save the world, says leading economist | The Independent

 

Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change | New York Times

 

Maybe a repeat of the "Inquisition"? Everyone have their own Agenda to maintain their flocks and revenue foundation and power.