Napalm production and use has been restarted.

"Rather than using gasoline and benzene as the fuel, the firebombs use kerosene-based jet fuel, which has a smaller concentration of benzene."

"You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm," said John Pike, defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan research group in Alexandria, Va."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20030 [...]

Onward kristian kontractors, burn those evildoers with eternal fahr... nuke cue lar fahr.

Napalm always goes out..eventually.

Nuke cue lar fahr burns for 50,000 years!

Get with it Rummi, only nuke cue lar "bunker busters" are good enough for real krusading! Napalm is so over, it's so last century.

Here's what a wall street weasel "investment" tout, Louis Navellier, said today in email spam promoting his newsletter.

"Last week, Toyota offered to help GM and Ford put hybrid cars on the road. Two reasons: China is sopping up so much oil, Detroit's gas-guzzlers are rotting on the lots; China will soon flood both Japan and the U.S. with high-quality cars sold for less than Toyota or GM can even make them for."

Toyota helping GM and Ford?

But the neoconmen continuially resist any effort to shift away from dependence on oil?  Bushco inc. does not represent the interests of we the people or the jobs we are losing to outsourcing supported by huge corporate tax breaks.

Bushco inc. represents multinational  corporate power, and that power has decided to manufacture everything in China,and power it all with fossil and nuclear fuel.

Why?  For the bottomline.  What is that bottomline?

The consolidation of wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.  That is how absolute greed corrupts absolutely.

Government of, by, and for we the people gets in the way of that agenda, so it must be bankrupted.  Isn't that really the main policy in this ongoing Reagan/Bush reactionary devolution?

Investing in the corporate kleptocracy of China furthers that goal.  Eventually the national debt owed to multinationals operating with cheap labor and unrestricted pollution in China will make the US government nothing but an empty shell.

A mere figurehead with no power to reign in corporate power, corruption, and greed.  The neo-conservative dream of corporate feudalism controlling spaceship earth will be a done deal.

http://www.uic.com.au/nip08.htm

"The back-end of the fuel cycle, including spent fuel storage or disposal in a waste repository, contributes up to another 10% to the overall costs per kWh, - less if there is direct disposal of spent fuel rather than reprocessing. The $18 billion US spent fuel program is funded by a 0.1 cent/kWh levy."

This is the estimate of waste costs by government/industry experts. 1/10th of one cent per kwh.

Nuclear power consumers have been paying that tax to clean up the waste later on. But that $18 billion is NOW going to pay for temporary waste storage, by court order. Dissappearing fast!

If the cost is more like 18 trillion to manage that waste over the next 20,000 years or so, that adds a dollar per kwh to the cost of that power, to be payed forever by future consumers and taxpayers.

Considering an operating budget of 400 million per year for at least three 100 billion dollar waste repositories, for 20,000 years (now that Yucca is defunct as permanent storage)......

...Maybe it would be better to go with wind at 3.5 cents per kwh and still dropping. With no fuel or waste costs.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/5/23/161638/792#6

The key to green blogging is the same as the key to arguing political positions that reflect environmental concerns.

They need to be connected  into central issues in energy policy, economic policy, and foreign policy.

Oil.... oil wars, economic decline, trade deficits, national bankruptcy, personal bankruptcy from high energy costs...

Nuclear.... waste, rising fuel costs,cancer from mining, astronomical waste disposal and decommissioning costs, uninsurable risk proven by the Chernobyl disaster, leaking nuclear waste dumps, imposibility of siting because of NIMBY...

Coal..... mercury pollution concentrated through the food chain, greenhouse gas climate disaster, lung cancer, mining accidents,
rising costs, destruction of wilderness.

Wind, solar, plugin hybrids,and biofuel.....stable low cost energy, revived economy, good jobs building this equipment, great export markets, no need for oil wars, revived uS manufacturing and tax base paying down the national debt. 

A concerted effort with all US allies to end reliance on fossil and nuclear power and the wars, toxic destruction, and risks from terror and economic devestation that come with it.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/5/24/154532/285#1

A quick check of the annual average windspeed map shows that the nearly deserted region in the middle of the northern midwestern great plains is the best area for huge wind machines.

And hardly anyone will see them.  The economy of scale, mass production and installation, and lack of objection to siting will more than make up for transportation losses of the power to where it is needed.  In the same way that hydroelectric power from Canada is transported ..on low loss 500 kvdc lines.

I am not opposed to smaller local machines, and even small scale home units are economically viable over decades long energy savings for homeowners.

But the thing about these huge 1000 foot machines is that the power generated could come in at 2 cents per kwh independent of fuel costs, there are none for wind power. 

 The 500 foot blades move slowly compared to the flight of birds, and can even be padded to further reduce bird kills.  A slight loss of efficiency to save birds is not a problem on this scale in the very high average wind areas.

If capital were allocated to upgrade and extend the national power grid and create a fair market in electric power that couldn't be manipulated by monopolists, the majority of power could come from these huge machines in remote sites, no more NIMBY.

For local machines where noise, bird kills, and unsightliness are prime concerns, vertical axis designs that are 2 to 3 times wider than they are high maybe the answer.  The blades move slower, they are less visible, and they get around local tower height restrictions.

 Enough power can still be provided even in fairly low average wind areas to power small buinesses, farms, and homes economically.  The cost structure for these local machines needs to favor the investor a bit more and the power company a bit less and these applications would take off.

http://gristmill.grist.org/comments/2005/5/18/17742/0592/4#4

Now this is a hard thing to pin down.

If Yucca Mountain works how much will it cost?  50 billion to store 70,000 metric tons of high level waste?  How much to transport the waste?

10,000 dollars per metric ton?  How much to moniter, maintain, and repair Yucca for 20,000 years.  200 million per year?

Nuclear power consumers contributed 20 billion or so into a fund to handle the waste problem, but that is now being used to pay for temporary storage in used nuclear fuel rod pools.

Yucca mountain appears to be unsafe as a permanent site, will a second or third site be needed, at a cost of say 100 billion per site?

Add on another 400 million per storage site for managment for 20,000 years?  

It's a bonanza for the nuclear contracting business, but how will US taxpayers ever afford it? will that nuclear power end up costing 1 dollar, 2, 3, 4 ..or more per kwh by the time the final bills are payed?  

Will it leak and contaminate half of the US sometine during transport, processing, or storage?  what will that cost?  Why find out?

No more nukes!!!   No more soaring fuel costs or astronomical waste costs.  

The sun shines, plants grow, and the wind blows, there is all the energy we need.

http://www.apolloalliance.org/

http://gristmill.grist.org/comments/2005/5/18/132254/932/2#2

I am surprised that this proposal does not include purchase of wind, solar, hybrid plugin vehicles, and biofuel for federal, state, and local government use.

http://gristmill.grist.org/comments/2005/5/18/17742/0592/1#1

Were the government to strengthen the national power grid, and extend it into the high wind regions of the northern great plains, and then have a well regulated market in energy so that local power companies could invest in wind generators in these high wind zones and move the power in and out of the grid with a reasonable fee for maintaining the power grid.

That would constitute a free market in energy.  In order to maintain a free market in a business like energy where the owner of a local grid has a monopoly, government must regulate.

It seems like a paradox, more regulation to maintain free markets.  Think of Teddy Roosevelt versus standard oil...and the SEC versus inside traders on wall street.

This upgrade and extension of the grid would be a public works project on the scale of the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Hoover Dam project.  

The government would regulate the market on the national grid so that the situation in California of traders shutting down plants to drive up prices could not occur.

As far as nuclear having to pay full costs upfront, waste storage is an incalculable expense.  Any solution will be astronomical in cost given the 20 to 30 tons of highly radioactive waste generated per year per plant.

Those 68 used nuclear fuel rod storage ponds alone..to transport and store all that?  How much would nuclear power cost per kwh in the end?  Over 50,000 years of storage?  1 dollar, 2, 3, 4  per kwh?  Who knows?  

Wind costs 3.5 cents per kwh case closed, no waste, pollution, or fuel.  And that figure is dropping, with mass production and instalation maybe 2 cents per kwh.

And as far as risk?  Nuclear power represents uninsurable risk.  How much is the area around Chernobyl worth?  How much is the Columbia River basin worth, where nuclear contamination from Hanford is leaking?  

That is why congress had to release the nuclear industry from liability, no institution  would buy bonds to finance nukes without that liability pass.  There is no way to insure them.

In fact that liability pass makes them unsitable, homeowners can't afford to have them in their area, their homes would be worthless, unable to be sold at any price after even a mild accident that merely scares buyers away.

Talking of leveling the playing field for nukes is nothing but a rhetorical device, a useful one though.  I agree with you on that.  But not in anyway a real possibility.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7873141/#050516b

The trick is to follow the trillions of dollars in monopoly power...it's in energy. Oil, coal, nukes...and the wars and terror incidents over it...and stolen elections fostered by those wars..

The rest is diversion. Mere Michael Jacksonism... the unofficial name of the political/media tactic in play. Constantly!

But both newsweek and rathergate are diversions. Oh that rove is so clever, hehey.

The big story is... nukes ready to be built soon!! Government funding a done deal, thanks to McCain and Lieberman! Radiant happiness from the nukers!

Bechtel rules!!

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/5/13/155316/596#1

Once we go full speed ahead to wind, solar, hybrid plugin vehicles, and biofuel..China will be straining to catch up and get ahead as with every other technology we have pioneered.

No way to prove that, but that is my feeling.  I believe that renewables not only have the clear enviromental advantage over fossil and nukes, but also the clear advantage economically.

 With wind power on a 1000 foot scale, the limit of tower height due to aviation, the cost could  be half that of nuclear for installation and total cost per kwh will dip below 3.5 cents towards 2 cents.  

This is due to economies of scale, mass production and installation, and the  higher average wind speeds at the higher altitude above ground level.  Also the average wind speed is up to double that in your backyard, in the high wind speed areas of the northern great plains and other favorable regions for wind.

The amount of power available from the wind rises with the cube of the wind speed.  And the largest wind machines now are the 300+ foot diameter GE 3.6 megawatt machines.  3 times that size yeilds 9 times the power.  

1.5 times the windspeed, a conservative estimate for these taller machines, yeilds 3 times the power.

So it is actually a fairly conservative estimate to put the output of these larger machines at 14  times the 1.4 megawatt equivalent continuous generating capacity of the  of the 3.6 megawatt GE machines (40% of continuous generation  due to wind variability).

This rates the 1000 foot scale machines at a conservative 20 megawatt equivalent continuous generating capacity without even factoring in the higher wind speeds on the northern great plains.

Will engineers in China and India notice these factors that US politicians ignore?  I suspect they already have.  

Now to enlighten the people and the clumsy apparatus that controls capital investment in the US and the rest of the world.

http://gristmill.grist.org/comments/2005/5/12/10129/2770/5#5

Nick Kristof used the same old talking points about solar and wind in his op/ed on energy.

Misleading use of statistics is usually part of the sophistry against renewable energy.  And many liberals like Kristof are falling for it.

It was surprising to see Stewart Brand and James Lovelock doing this also.  

If one were to add up all the area polluted by mines, refineries, processing plants, waste sites, generating plants for fossil fuels and nuclear power, and the exponentially expanding plumes of toxins in groundwater, rivers, lakes, and air from these energy sources...

Then compare that to the 50 foot diameter area needed for each of 30,000 thousand foot scale wind machines needed to equal the present electrical generating capacity of the US....the picture looks a bit different.

And consider not only rooftops for solar electric power, but also space over parking lots that need shading anyway.  And solar cogeneration that produces not only electricity (which absorbs only 10% of the solar power available), but heating and cooling capacity and water/waste recycling or desalinization from the same collectors.  Water is the oil of this century.

By substituting heat pumps for heating instead of fuel oil and natural gas, and hybrid plugin vehicles that use mostly electric power on short trips (the vast majority of driving miles), that electric capacity created by wind and solar power can substitute for expensive greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels.

For instance,20% of oil is burned to provide heat energy for refining oil, a huge waste.  Easily replaced with clean solar heat or wind and solar electric power driving heat pumps.

Do we really need 30,000 20 megawatt wind machines on the high apeed wind areas of the great plains?  Yes because a switch to heat pumps and hybrid plugin vehicles will require even more electric generating capacity.  

With the added capacity from solar electric panels on rooftops, and over parking lots wind and solar could economically replace fossil and nuclear power for transportation as well as heating, cooling,refining, and manufacturing.

The old fossil fuel plants would serve as backup and a kind of battery to smooth out variable output from wind and solar and variable loads in the power grid.  Eventually they could be replaced by superconducting energy storage rings and maybe someday with fuel cells.

With hybrid plugin vehicles averaging 80 miles per gallon, biofuels could replace imported oil.  As battery technology, backup generators, and eventually fuel cells increase in efficiency and drop in cost, those biofuels, like methanol, ethanol,and biodiesel could totally replace oil.

None of this is as farfetched as a nuclear plant with pebble bed or other research level technology actually overcoming the problems of uninsurable risk for siting, fuel mining and manufacturing, and waste transportation, processing, and storage (20 to 30 tons per year per nuclear reactor).  

Coupled with nuclear fuel expected to triple in price over the next few years, and the fact that wind and solar have no fuel or waste costs...it all paints a very different picture of energy policy.

We need to push hard for this energy policy that would revive the US manufacturing base, tax base, and provide good jobs for american families.  

The export markets created for our clean energy technology would power an economic boom based on real productivity increases, rather than an economic bubble from speculation.

Let's have an ENERGY revolution!!!  

What about the tax breaks for moving jobs offshore?

With the internet an engineer in India or China is micromoments away from computers in the executive offices and the machining or manufacturing systems on the factory floor.

Shouldn't the profits earned on products and services sold to american consumers support US jobs? Or should capital be free to roam at will over the globe to find labor willing to work for the lowest wages?

Shouldn't government of, by, and for we the people instead encourage capital acumulated by profiting from US consumers to be invested in the US economy?

Why give tax breaks to the oil industry for instance..in order to export over 500 million dollars per day of US capital to pay for imported oil?

Why not adopt a tax policy and energy policy for US government needs that instead encourages clean, domestic, renewable energy production and manufacturing of wind, solar, hybrid vehicles, and biofuel to replace imported oil?

These changes are necessary to preserve real competitive capitalism once again. Multi-national corporate power has created energy monopolies that prevent the introduction of cleaner, more competitive technologies in the energy business.

And that neo-conservative corporate power is extending itself to take over all economic power in every area of human endeavor and make government nothing but a figurehead.

Where ever the corporate boardroom rules, we the people become chattel.

Consumers, taxpayers, soldiers, labor...not citizens of a nation of, by, and for we the people.

When neo-conservatives rule, the halls of government become mere extensions of the boardroom.

Lobbyists write the laws and bought and payed for shills disguised as legislators and regulators rubber stamp these documents in return for bribes.

Manufacturing job base dying? Don't forget emptying bed pans and delivering pizza!

Vital areas of the economy that will surely replace manufacturing...and replace family homes with cardboard ones after foreclosure and bankruptcy.

Leadership is needed! So why did the sheople instead fall for the neoconman game of fear and hatred and war for oily empire based on lies?

The way to win these oil wars is with manufacturing power.

Can the american workforce produce millions of plugin hybrid vehicles and 100s of thousands of solar, wind, and biofuel plants needed to win these wars and save planet earth from global climate disaster?

Look to the WW 2 war production for the answer... millions of planes, tanks, ships, guns...and that reinvigorated the US economy.

This time around no shooting war need be engaged, only the manufacturing effort.

And a revived US manufacturing and tax base, that will save US families from economic devestation...through export of these energy products worldwide.

But leadership by government similar to that in WW 2 is needed. Without it neo-conservative feudal corporate power will takeover planet earth.

Just as Hitler and Krupp tried to in WW 2.

The United Corporate Feudal States Of Earth. Nothing less will satisfy the neo-conservatives.

The interests of we the people are right in the way of that agenda. The US constitution must die!

Figurehead government of, by, and for the multinational corporate feudal princes of the divine right of capital.

Why else would the real strategic oil reserve of the north american continent...the Canadian Tar Sands..be sold off to Chinese corporate power?

Why to prevent it's use for the benefit of we the people of the uS and Canada of course.

All resources must be wholly owned and controlled by corporate feudalism, anything less is communism! Hehey.

Under the policies of bushco inc., Saudi Arabia is the perfect model for government.

Check out this interview in Newsweek with William McDonough:

"I love nuclear energy. I just want to make sure it stays where God put it—93 million miles away, in the sun."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7773650/site/newsweek/

Now look at this story about GE's "Ecomagination" ad campaign touting green energy, but really pushing coal and nuclear power.

"The goals were developed in partnership with the World Resources Institute, a green think tank, whose president, Jonathan Lash..."

'Lash said, "Global warming is the most pressing environmental problem humankind has ever faced. I wouldn't push any potential solution off the table, and I think nuclear has to be a part of the carbon-free energy mix."'

http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/05/10/little-ge/index.html

McDonough is the real thing, a real green energy and industrial leader.

Lash is a lobbyist shilling for Rovian talking points corporate friendly strategery to reinvigorate nuke-cue-lar (bushco word) power.

We can tell the difference and back the right people given real information. New media is needed now!

http://www.actionforum.com/forum/scores.html?comment_id=221488

Those who don't learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them

And of course this vital corrolary is also important:

Those who learn from history are doomed to watch other's repeat it.

How many Reagan/Bush reactionary, oil war creating, earth destroying, de-evolutions can humankind and mother earth survive?

We better wise up at least a majority of voters very, very soon!

Eventually the villagers, pitchforks and firebrands in hand, will come to Rovenstein's castle for these monsters.

New democratic party leaders must be ready to turn them to more constructive tasks. Clean energy policy, economic recovery, peace, and prosperity..nenewing american democracy and reinstituting the US constitution as the law of the land.

The reign of bushco inc. will be but a grade D horror flick in the minds of most...a few years after demcracy is restored.

The task of the reform party will then be to not let them forget history..or we will have to watch them repeat it all over again!

How many Reagan/Bush reactionary devolutions can this mother earth withstand? Let's not try to push it and find out!

Check out independent film/tv via The Sundance Channel, versus regular teeveee. Give it a week or two, you will no longer be able to stand most regular teeeveee.

It is time for Al Franken, Ted Turner...and friends to start an independent news network, like turner started CNN.

An antidote to regular teevee news, just as The sundance Channel is an alternative to regular teeeveee programming.

Viewers who have deserted network news will then desert cable news in droves, fort these new news channels.

Launch on the internet streaming, satelite radio (with pictures and text download to wireless devices), and tv cable and satelite. Go for it Ted! Let Al pick the people to get it going.

If he doesn't get elected to the senate first? This would be the modern equivalent of the american revolution...

... break the back of mass delusional, mass corporate media brainwashing that is destroying government of, by, and for we the people!

http://blogdrx.blogspot.com/

Just click!!

amazingdrx - 7:10 AM ET May 7, 2005 (#49996 of 49996)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/07/opinion/07dowd.html?hp

"Even as scientists issue rules on chimeras in labs, a spine-tingling he-monster with the power to drag us back into the pre-Darwinian dark ages is slouching around Washington. It's a fire-breathing creature with the head of W., the body of Bill Frist and the serpent tail of Tom DeLay."

Well Maureen, if the tail (delay) is cut off to feed the mass delusional Rovian mob, does it grow back again?

Does it become a martyr after consumption (can a lobbyist be considered a martyr)?

Speaking of the "exterminator", inserting a human brain in an insect body ("The Fly"), using an ant instead, is the most frightening thought of all!

Or is it? How about the ant brain into humans? Collective consciousness, true believers who act without thinking.

Just like the bushco inc sheople do...or the jihadi suicide bombers?

I have seen the borg, they are US. Well at least the portion of US who are faithbased jesuslanders.

An attempt to send signals back from a future time to the present is underway, it is theoretically possible but takes huge amounts of energy.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/timetravel-01a.html

It's based on the phenomenon where particles are whirled in a black hole and actually exceed the speed of light...they emerge in the past.

So a signal, say a computer ethernet signal could be turned into an on and off particle stream.

The scientist...in the future..would send himself a message encoded in that particle stream ...back to present time.

But we can't build a black hole to achieve the velocity needed for the particle stream to travel back in time.

So these scientists are using powerful lasers to create a vortex that is like a black hole. it will take immense energy, but should be able to be constructed in a labratory.

They are trying to raise money for it.

Will the world be destroyed, causality itself looped..immediately upon it's activation? I'm guessiong 2012 is it. It will create total dimensional distortion and dissappearance of all who are connected to mass media delusional reality.

Only those who live by synchronicity, by coincidence will survive. Animals, plants, and enlightened humans who can resist the time vortex by simply not believing in it...their lack of perception of that dimension protects them.

Sounds like a good scifi screenplay! hehehey.