Published: July 15th, 2016 at 7:49 am ET
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Facebook post by Keow Wee Loong, Jul 13, 2016 (English edited and emphasis added): Fukushima exclusion zone… Never seen before photo of the Fukushima exclusion zone. When i enter the red zone, i can feel a burning sensation in my eyes and thick chemical smell in the air. before i went there the authority told me that i need a special permit to visit this town and it take 3-4 weeks to get the approval from the local council,, well too much bureaucracy bullshit for me..so i just sneak in the forest to avoid cops on the road …AND IT WAS AMAZING !!!!! … Have you ever wonder what is like in Fukushima exclusion zone now ??? . to feel what is like to be the only person walking in the town when you have 100% full access to every shop and explore??. when i was young i always had a dream like this… everything is exactly where it is after the earthquake struck this town… The radiation level is still very high in the red zone. not many people seen this town for the last 5 years…is like it vanished … i can find food, money, gold, laptop and other valuable in the red zone… I’m 
amaze that nobody looted this town clean. unlike Chernobyl [where] the entire town is been looted clean. this is the difference between Chernobyl disaster and the Fukushima disaster.
Facebook post by Keow Wee Loong, Jul 9, 2016 (English edited): Ever wonder what is like in Fukushima exclusion zone now ??? … The radiation level is still very high in the red zone. not many people seen this town for the last 5 years…is like it vanished … I can find food, money, gold, laptop and other valuable in the red zone… I’m amaze that nobody looted this town clean. Well this is the devastating effects of using nuclear energy. Resident lives in Fukushima will never be the same again… The radiation leak at red zone by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is damaging the environment and marine life in the Pacific Ocean…
CNN, Jul 14, 2016: Photographer sneaks into Fukushima ‘Red Zone’… For more than half a decade, towns like Tomioka, Okuma, Futaba, Namie, have remained almost entirely lifeless, sealed off from the outside world, as the Japanese government keeps in place an exclusion zone for fear of radiation contamination. Last month, under the cover of night, photographer Keow Wee Loong and two colleagues slipped past authorities and made their way into the exclusion zone, taking a three-hour walk through the woods to reach the abandoned towns… There are few signs of life in the exclusion zone, Loong said, apart from a few cats and dogs; pets abandoned, now turned wild, he speculates. One dog chased the photographer and he was forced to fight him off with his tripod.
RT, Jul 14, 2016: Urban explorer and photographer Keow Wee Loong illegally visited abandoned settlements around the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant and produced a series of photos of a post-apocalyptic world inhabited only by feral beasts… Despite often venturing into abandoned sites, Loong was taken aback. “It’s very empty, it’s very quiet, and it’s kind of scary”… “Unlike Chernobyl, where everything valuable has been looted clean, here everything is in place.”… Unsettled by what he experienced, Loong got in his car and drove straight out… “I want people to see the devastating effect of a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl or Fukushima. I don’t care about the fame, but I want people to see those photos.”
Mailonline, Jul 12, 2016: Wearing a gas mask but no other protective clothing, Loong, 27, visited four of the evacuated towns in Fukushima – Tomioka, Okuma, Namie and Futaba – in June this year with friends Sherena Ng and Koji Hori… the towns have been completely untouched by humanity since then… [Loong said] If you visit any boutique or shopping mall in these towns, you will see the merchandise exactly where it was since 2011, nothing has been changed or moved.’… Loong added: ‘I even found money laying around the pachinko parlour, books dating back to 2011, gold and other valuables all still in place… Due to the high level of radiation, the adventurers only had a limited amount of time to explore all four towns and had to wear gas masks to protect themselves from the contaminated air. Loong explained: ‘The radiation level in the red zone could go as high as 4.8mSv – 6.5 mSv according to the reading on the electronic signboard on the road. ‘Upon arrival in the red zone, I could smell chemicals and felt a burning sensation in my eyes.’ … The urban explorers walked along an abandoned train station in Futaba, Fukushima, which was eerily devoid of life… ‘This was one of the creepiest things I have ever seen, I have been to many places, but nothing like Fukushima, the traffic lights are still operating but there are no cars around. ‘It all reminded me of the movie I Am Legend, like stepping foot into a post-apocalyptic city.’
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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/70-years-ago-the-us-military-set-off-a-nuke-underwater-and-it-went-very-badly
… That first underwater test, the Baker event, instilled new awe for the power of the bomb. The Navy had believed that many of the target ships would survive the blast, be decontaminated, and sail out of the lagoon.
But, within two weeks, Navy leaders had to admit that the ships were so soaked in radiation, they couldn’t be saved, and the Marshall Islands became graveyards for irradiated vessels.
After that, even in the years that the U.S. and the Soviet Union regularly tested nuclear bombs, only a few were ever underwater. It took almost a decade after Baker for the Navy to try setting off a bomb underwater again.
A Graveyard of Ships
The LSM-60 was the first ship to go. The bomb had been suspended directly beneath it, and when the blast burst upwards, the ship was pulverized—it was as if it had disappeared. Only a few fragments were ever found, by Navy men cleaning the decks of other ships. …
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Arkansas, a battleship, went next, the first ship ever to be sunk by an atomic bomb. YO-160, an oil barge, went down quickly, along with the auxiliary craft ARDC-13.
The Saratoga, an aircraft carrier, took seven and a half hours to sink. After the blast, her stern started to drop into the water, and the ship tilted starboard. Nagato, a battleship captured from Japan, sunk four days later, in the night, when no one was watching. Three of the six submarines hidden beneath the water sank, as well.
The true extent of the losses did not become clear for more than a week, though. Even in the first hours after the blast, clean-up crews started heading towards the boats, only to turn back when they measured how dangerously high the radiation levels had risen.
The vice admiral heading the task force sent out a crew on tug boats to tow the Saratoga to a nearby island before it sank, but after the radiation turned them back, the crew watched from afar as the ship slowly went down. …
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The problem was the water. In previous atomic tests, radioactive particles spewed into the atmosphere and were spread over great distances as the blast cloud dissipated. Here, the radiation had been contained in the mist of water and fallen directly back into the lagoon, down onto the ships.
Even the vessels that survived the initial were so radioactive that initially levels were at 20 times a lethal dose.
Still, the Navy thought the ships could be saved. The captains of the target vessels wanted their ships back, and Rear Adm. Thorvald Solberg, who was in charge of decontamination, believed the ships could be washed down and sent home.
But the clean-up crews were not prepared for how thoroughly contaminated the boats were. They began to hose the ships down with foam and salt water, trying to scrub out the radiation. It was a futile effort: The only way they could have clean them off would have required sandblasting everything down, removing every bit of wood and washing the brass and copper pieces of the ship with nitric acid.
Soon, workers were hitting the daily allotment of radiation exposure—limits set to keep workers safe, which, by today’s standards, were already high. Radiation was spreading everywhere, as the clean-up crews tracked irradiated water back to their “clean” ships.
Even the mussels and algae that clung to the hulls of the clean ships were now concentrating radiation and adding to the men’s exposure. …
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The Navy had to admit that the ships would be impossible to clean. Six vessels, that had been badly damaged in the blast, were sunk right there in the Bikini lagoon. Most of the contaminated ships were towed 200 miles to Kwajalein atoll, where they would stay.
A small group of the radioactive ships were towed to Pearl Harbor for examination; more were later taken from Kwajalein to Pearl Harbor, Seattle or San Francisco. But 36 never left Kwajalein. They were towed out to the deep sea and sunk.
One ship, the Prinz Eugen, didn’t wait for the Navy to decide its fate. After being towed the Kwajalein, the leaking boat capsized in relatively shallow water. The wreck is still there, with its propellers exposed to sky.
The Rest of the Tests
There was supposed to be another underwater test in 1946, but after the impact of Baker, the test was canceled. The next time the military tested a nuclear device underwater was in 1955, during Operation Wigwam, which was meant to test nuclear weapons against submarines. This device was planted deeper into the ocean, at 2,000 feet, 500 nautical miles southwest of San Diego. …
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Speaking of water ==>
There are only 4 more days left to submit your comment to the EPA on what you think of their proposal to allow MORE radiation in your drinking water.
Only 125 comments have been submitted so far
Please get your comment in. Your comments can be submitted anonymously if you prefer. Here’s the link to submit your comment:
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0268-0210
Here's a good blog post explaining it:
“The EPA in USA is Trying to Allow HUNDREDS OF TIMES More Radiation In Your Drinking Water”
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-epa-in-usa-is-trying-to-allow.html
Thank you!
P.S. – tell everyone you know about this and ask them to submit a comment!
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A lesser-known Beach Boy song to listen to while you're typing up your comment on what you think of the EPA raising radiation limits in YOUR drinking water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mky-UhxUKoM
COOL COOL WATER
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sad:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/iaea-backs-nigerias-use-uranium-power-generation-says-poses-no-threat/
IAEA backs Nigeria’s use of Uranium for power generation, says it poses no threat
ON JULY 19, 2016
… The Federal Government brought in top experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct a week-long training for nuclear practitioners and security officers in the country on the extraction, exploitation and utilisation of the substance. …
The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer, NNRA, Prof. Lawrence Dim, explained that the latest training would expose participants to the technicalities in Uranium use for power generation since Nigeria does not have the relevant technology to do so at the moment.
He was quick to say that the use of uranium does not pose any threat to the country, adding, “Uranium exploration in Nigeria is quite safe. We have not had any cause to find out that there is any high level of radiation or exposure relating to that.
“The issue is that the uranium we get in our soil is the natural uranium; although it has radioactive material, the concentration is low. So we don’t have any situation where the level of radiation coming out from it is detected to be harmful.”
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/iaea-backs-nigerias-use-uranium-power-generation-says-poses-no-threat/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/07/19/an-old-nuclear-weapons-deal-raises-new-questions-about-u-s-bombs-in-turkey/
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http://www.northumberlandnews.com/opinion-story/6772288-questioning-the-low-level-radioactive-cleanup-in-port-hope/
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Questioning the low-level radioactive cleanup in Port Hope
Northumberland News
To the editor:
Re: Port Hope misused $10-million low-level radioactive waste fund, court concludes – published July 12, 2016
The largest historic low-level radioactive waste cleanup in Canadian history will soon begin on hundreds of sites around Port Hope and moved to the corner of town where it will be stored, forever.
In 2001, the Canadian government agreed to pay Port Hope, the former Hope Township, and Clarington a $10-million grant each for agreeing to be a host community for historic low-level radioactive waste.
A recent Ontario Superior Court decision posed many questions and demanded clarity from municipal lawyers. In addition, an outdated 2001 legal agreement needs to be revised or rewritten — especially when it was originally signed by the Canadian government after the Town and Township of Hope (Wards 1 and 2) had already amalgamated. The legality of an agreement into perpetuity is also questioned.
The agreement required the nuclear waste be kept in permanent storage. The lifetime of stored radioactive waste spans multiple generations and tens of thousands of years …
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– especially the highly deadly K-65 residues (none LLRW) from uranium ores refined in Port Hope for the U.S.-led Manhattan Project during the Second World War and world’s first atomic bombs.
The $10-million hosting fee to Ward 2 was a bargain for the Canadian government — especially if and when a future cleanup is needed. The previous nuclear dump located on the same site next to a wetland was forced to shut down due to leaching contamination. A new cleanup could run into billions of dollars later — who will pay?
There is no other permanent nuclear storage facility available. Almost nothing man-made lasts forever. After 300 years when the federal government has left town, what compensation will be paid to future generations inheriting the legacy of hosting and monitoring a deadly giant radioactive mound of aged cells built into the municipal landscape and, perhaps, Canada’s biggest LLRW nuclear dumpsite?
Historic wrongs should be made right and not perpetuated into the future.
Marian Martin,
Campbellcroft
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south australians should take note, and if they have any brains they should get rid of the clowns trying to con them into turning their state into a radioactive wasteland until the end of time.
http://www.greatlakesadvocate.com.au/story/4039198/nuclear-info-sessions-across-sa/?cs=2452
Nuclear info sessions across SA 19 Jul 2016
CONSULTATION: Nuclear consultation sessions will be held around EP.
LOCALS are urged to have their say on nuclear as part of the state’s largest community engagement program.
Teams from the state government’s Nuclear Consultation and Response Agency will run sessions at more than 100 sites including 10 on the Eyre Peninsula.
The key themes discussed will be community consent and the importance of an informed opinion, economics including the benefits and risks to the state, safety including key issues around storage, health and transport, and trust.
Eyre Peninsula consultation sessions will run from 11am to 7pm at Streaky Bay on August 2, Ceduna on August 3, Elliston on August 4, Port Lincoln on August 5, Kimba on August 16, Cummins on August 17, Cowell on August 18, with separate Aboriginal community consultation at Port Lincoln and Ceduna.
There will also be a booth at the EP Field Days at Cleve on August 9 and 10.
For more information about the sessions visit the YourSAy nuclear website.
Port Lincoln Times
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not to mention this:
http://www.abqjournal.com/810635/feds-reach-settlement-with-navajos-over-uranium-mine-cleanup.html
Feds reach settlement with Navajos over uranium mine cleanup
By Susan Montoya Bryan / Associated Press
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The federal government has reached another settlement with the Navajo Nation that will clear the way for cleanup work to continue at abandoned uranium mines across the largest American Indian reservation in the U.S.
The target includes 46 sites that have been identified as priorities due to radiation levels, their proximity to people and the threat of contamination spreading. Cleanup is supposed to be done at 16 abandoned mines while evaluations are planned for another 30 sites and studies will be done at two more to see if water supplies have been compromised.
The agreement announced by the U.S. Justice Department settles the tribe’s claims over the costs of engineering evaluations and cleanups at the mines.
The federal government has already spent $100 million to address abandoned mines on Navajo lands and a separate settlement reached with DOJ last year was worth more than $13 million. However, estimates for the future costs for cleanup at priority sites stretch into the hundreds of millions of dollars. …
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Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could not immediately pinpoint the worth of the latest settlement.
Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden, who is with the DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, said the latest settlement marks the second phase of ensuring cleanup of mines that pose the most significant public health risks.
“Addressing the legacy of uranium mining on Navajo lands reflects the commitment of the Justice Department and the Obama administration to fairly and honorably resolve the historic grievances of American Indian tribes and build a healthier future for their people,” Cruden said in a statement.
Navajo leaders have been pushing for cleanup for decades, specifically for the removal of contaminated soils and other materials rather than burying and capping the waste on tribal land. Since 2005, they’ve had a ban on uranium mining.
Over four decades, some 4 million tons of uranium ore were extracted from mines on Navajo lands with the federal government being the sole purchaser from the 1940s through the 1960s, when commercial sales began. The mining operations stretched from western New Mexico into Arizona and southern Utah.
Decades of uranium mining have left behind a legacy of contamination that includes one of the nation’s worst disasters involving radioactive waste: a spill in the Church Rock area that sent more than 1,100 tons of mining waste and millions of gallons of toxic water …
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into an arroyo and downstream to the Rio Puerco. The result was a Superfund declaration.
Advocates have called for more studies on the health effects of continued exposure to the contamination resulting from the mining sites, and some have criticized the slow pace of cleanup and the lack of adequate funding for the work that needs to be done.
In a report submitted to New Mexico lawmakers last year, a team of consultants estimated it would take EPA more than a century to fund the removal of contamination at just 21 of the highest priority sites.
In a letter sent last month to President Barack Obama and EPA leadership, Navajo President Russell Begaye said the abandoned uranium mines project continues to struggle with outreach, coordination and trust issues.
EPA officials say in the last decade, the agency has remediated nearly four dozen homes, conducted field studies at all 523 mines on Navajo lands and provided safe drinking water to more than 3,000 families. Stabilization and cleanup work also has been done at nine abandoned mines.
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http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2987919/offshore_wind_powers_ahead_as_prices_drop_30_below_nuclear.html
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http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article90443167.html
JULY 18, 2016
Class action lawsuit planned over Hanford pensions, benefits
BY ANNETTE CARY
acary@tricityherald.com
Workers who saw their Hanford pensions cut in a largely failed economic development program are preparing to file a class action lawsuit July 19 against the Department of Energy.
The planned lawsuit seeks to restore Hanford pension and other benefits for as many as 500 former and current employees of Lockheed Martin Services Inc., or LMSI, which provided information technology and other services at Hanford.
More than 100 people packed a a meeting in Richland on Monday evening to hear about the planned lawsuit, which would cover 20 years of benefit cuts.
“It’s not a slam-dunk case,” warned Richland attorney Doug McKinley.
But it may shame the federal government into finally doing the right thing, he said.
“We have nothing to lose,” he added.
Workers have been fighting to have retirement benefits restored since 1996, when about 2,000 Hanford workers were assigned to “enterprise companies” as Fluor won the contract for environmental cleanup at Hanford.
Those companies were no longer considered part of Hanford, and years of service figured into workers’ pensions were capped in 1996.
As most of the enterprise companies folded, some of them by 1998, their workers typically have been reassigned to other contractors with full Hanford pension benefits. But Lockheed…
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" 22 security guards at Palisades placed on leave for falsifying fire inspection records "
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link:
http://enformable.com/2016/07/22-security-guards-palisades-placed-leave-falsifying-fire-inspection-records/
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Also at Enformable, a new article by Dr. Karl Grossman ==>
" New film about Indian Point nuclear power plant provides insights about regulating the nuclear industry "
http://enformable.com/2016/07/new-film-indian-point-nuclear-power-plant-provides-insights-regulating-nuclear-industry/
If you missed Lonnie Clark's interview with Dr. Karl Grossman, it's worth listening to ==>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klnh4Y9Oz4w
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Human Caused Climate Changes Speed Biosphere/Culture Collapse
“Earth’s stability is collapsing…and one by one, the biospheric processes regulating life itself are going awry. These are early characteristics of climate shock and are indications that even more ominous changes are yet to unfold. The fact that Earth’s systems are crashing in concert (climate, biodiversity and ecosystems, atmosphere, aquifers, and geological processes) is evidence geological change is accelerating on a planetary scale…we may not all be on the same page now that change is underway on planet Earth but sooner or later, we’ll all be in the same boat as environmental refugees from the change that will inevitably neutralize biological conditions on the planet.” –The Extinction Protocol by Alvin Conway, page 9, 2009 (1st edt)
https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
Catch the video on the disappearance of a major Bolivian lake.
A short, must-see video.
Hard to make a living from a desert.
Many thanks to The Extinction Protocol for taking a long view of the results of a greedy, shortsided economics-only motivated human race.
Keeping the dance going in the face of ecosystem collapse is getting harder and harder.
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Thanks PUN,
This is a great site that is well written and in depth.
Fukushima is the cherry on this man made collapse of our planet. We are all to blame for this demise. Some have tried to make a difference in any way we can to show the world what is going on.
We, enenewers and others, have presented facts, scholarly papers, articles, videos and blogged in defense of the truth. I will continue to expose those who would deny us the truth.
I was talking with a friend about my documenting the filming of jets and the geoengineering trails they leave in the sky. He said it was condensation trails, everyone knows that.
I asked him about Fukushima and the radiation thrown in the air when the plants exploded and his reply was that there was no radiation released and the NPP's are in COLD SHUT DOWN, end of conversation. He told me I was nuts and obsessed for believing these conspiracy theories and he really didn't want to have any thing more to do with me.
I put down my tea and walked away from a friendship that had lasted for 45 years. Moral of the story.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
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The new enclosure for the Chernobyl Sacophagus is doing just great:
http://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/07/new-chernobyl-confinement-shelter-largest-movable-structure-land
The Fukushima Sarcophagus, however, just hit a snag that will set back this project indefinitely.
"Tokyo rescinds its mention of a Fukushima sarcophagus. On Tuesday, Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation included the slight possibility of a sarcophagus similar to Chernobyl for F. Daiichi in a future planning report for decommissioning. Japan’s Press immediately jumped on it, with Fukushima Prefecture officials howling in opposition. Industry Minister Yosuke Takagi met with Fukushima governor Masao Uchibori on Friday to assure everyone that Tokyo has no intention of entombing F. Daiichi. Takagi added that he has ordered the decommissioning office to rewrite the report and remove the mention of a sarcophagus."
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20160715_27/
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates.html
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Novarka, who manufactured and erected the Chernobyl Replacement Arched Shelter, has done another wonderful animation of the construction project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7lLYtrEK8
Older animation here:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2011/apr/19/novarka-chernobyl-reactor-arch-video
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Japan should hire Novarka to consult on potential project at Fukushima.
Don't you think?
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Chernobyl Replacement Arched Structure To Slid Over Reactor In November, 2016
"The structure's slow slide into its final position is expected to take place in November 2016 in what will surely be a highly publicized event. Once secured, the New Safe Confinement will allow for the partial demolition of the old structure. Over 95 percent of the radioactivity is still contained within unit four. The removal process, which is currently unfunded, is expected to take decades."
http://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/07/new-chernobyl-confinement-shelter-largest-movable-structure-land
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Been meaning to do this for several years. I completed Phase 1 yesterday.
The trick has always been in making it compact, reliable, user friendly, safe, and most of all….relatively cheap. Traditional PV Systems, the Battery Backup provisions add around $15,000 to the system. I believe I will be able to market this for around $1,500.
What if you could have an emergency system, that needed no gas, made no noise, and could:
Power your frig
Keep your cell phone and electronics charged
Run some LED lights in your bathrooms, kitchens
Run a microwave oven
Run a radio and TV for emergency messaging
Run a shortwave or HAM Radio
Run your "Burglar Alarm"
Directly charge your USB Devices
Allow you to occasionally run your computer and monitor
Charge your rechargeable batteries
What if I could provide an easily deployable and movable system, even a "hide-able" system for under $1,500?
I think that would be a real winner. Would this make a significant improvement to your life in a real emergency situation? The answer is YES! By the Way.
Well I finished the beta phase, design, procurement, and assembly. Proof of concept is completed.
I am testing it now, and probably running for several months, with varying configurations, monitoring DC current flows, AC current and kwH, temperatures, and testing in various humidity, rain, high temp, and later in winter, for low temps.
Does…
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Does anyone have any interest in a system like this?
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Sure..why not! I will take one!
Thought these types of units were already out there though.
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They are for $15,000 lol
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Greed..no doubt!
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Good luck Stock. It sounds very good!!
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They are Obe. I have one that was 1,200 from offthegrid.com. It's just one panel, though and was prurchased when systems were more expensive. I'm helping design one for a sailboat, now…and it will have 4 panels for about that same total price.
Stock? You've checked the competition, right?
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Panel wattage, battery capacity, inverter capacity and quality, charge controller quality and whether got batt temp sensor and control, and whether it does MPP tracking to run the PV at optimal….
Lots of factors, I want to do more than charge a phone, lol
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One for me, too! Will back up my natural gas 16kw Generac.
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Nice to have one zero fuel power source, for sure.
EMP protected? a serious consideration.
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Japanese, people from Taipei,and Korea could use systems like that now.
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A system involving a large clock spring and a dead inventor has had me thinking about that since I heard the story. I am a toolmaker machinist so I have a really good mechanical sense, electronics not so much. It can be wound in any way you can imagine (including a motor running on solar panels). A big enough spring can store a lot of energy without EMP pulse having any effect on the mechanical part. Also raising weight (like when you wind a grandfather clock) where room permits is another mechanical way to store a lot of energy. I wish I could invest in things like this but I'm barely paying my bills! Having not worked in a machine shop for 15 years makes it hard to get a job, like my memory went bad because I'm an old bastard!
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Some..
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/grid-tie-battery-backup
http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/off-grid-solar-system-box.html
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Fukushima Thyroid Cancers Compared To Chernobyl Cancers
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/landia/PIIS2213-8587(16)30112-7.pdf
Much more, in this vein, to come…
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"Accorning to the report nearly 5000 operations of thyroid-gland cancer have been implemented…"
http://www.fmu.ac.jp/univ/dbook-e/index.html#page=185
Very important: In regions around Chernobyl.
Regions around Fukushima (further) will also be affected to complete the comparison.
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Luckily, I am able to design and build my own system, much cheaper and with more failsafes. Unfortunately, not cheaply enough to actually do it.
As for for preparing, a reporter just returned from Russia. The entire country population is stocking up supplies preparing for war. Shocking!!! This should tell us something that our 'out to lunch' government will not. Get Ready now!!!
Two new Russian weapons announced, one to flatten Texas and the Tsunami Torpedo for West Coast cities (LA and SF probably)
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It's not funny but the Russian's have been telling their people the evil USA is going to attack since the cold war With all the troop build-ups around Russia and the backing of pro-western governments in the area with nukes would be evidence pointing toward the intention to attack! I don't see Russia building up troops in say Cuba? It's our new vacation spot! Nothing in any of it but for the few at the top. The citizens spend their cash on supplies that will probably sit forever! And huge weapons projects that line the pockets of the rich and pollute the planet!
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/07/20/congressman-mark-takai-dies-49/87354880/
U.S. Rep. Mark Takai, a first-term congressman from Hawaii who represented an area near Pearl Harbor in the Hawaii State House of Representatives for two decades, died Wednesday.
He was 49 and had begun seeking treatment for pancreatic cancer last fall.
Imagine that the University of Hawaii detects 2200 bg of cesium in Hawaii soil and people start dying from cancer at age 49. Seems legit.
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http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/photographer-slams-malaysian-photographers-fukushima-pictures-exclusion-zone-fake
Some controversy about the source.of this story Mr. Loong
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Screw off nuclear murderess and nuclear shill
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https://desuawaitsusall.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/an-open-letter-to-the-fukushima-exclusion-zone-photographer-keow-wee-loong/
http://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/attention-seeking-kid-keow-wee-loong/
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30,000 to 40,000 people put up with the stench of the Westlake Landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri
Lonnie Clark interviews Drew Kuhn of the Missouri Accountability Project, keeping awareness of the situation at the Westlake Landfill in the forefront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTfH5exK_Js&spfreload=10
Facebook Page for the Missouri Accountability Project
https://www.facebook.com/missouriaccountabilityproject
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Tell EPA: don't repeat Flint! Protect our drinking water from radioactivity!
The EPA is proposing VERY high radiation levels for drinking water that can be used not only for emergency releases, but in any instance governments and regulators wish to ignore more protective standards. Added to food and other exposures, these levels will be even more dangerous to public health.
These levels can be thousands of times higher than current EPA standards. There is indication in documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that, in some cases, these allowed exposures could cause acute radiation effects, such as vomiting and fever. Clearly EPA doesn't remember Flint, MI and how they utterly failed to protect public health, particularly health of pregnancies and children.
Further, EPA is basing its pregnancy and childhood exposure levels on nearly unobtainable reports from a scientific body that takes funding from the nuclear industry lobbying group, the NEI.
Time is short so A CALL is needed! PLEASE CALL Gina McCarthy at 202-564-4700.
Tell her it is unacceptable that EPA is ignoring their own drinking water and risk standards, which are more protective of public health, in favor of industry.
Tell her it is unacceptable that the EPA seems to be keeping from public scrutiny parts of the Protective Action Guide (PAG), such as all radionuclide levels allowed by the guide; and not providing complete documents on which the PAG is based.
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Tell her it is unacceptable that EPA would base childhood exposure levels on a report from a group that takes money from industry lobbyists.
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Here's the link for that
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Stop-EPA-from-poisoning-our-drinking-water-with-radioactivity-.html?soid=1117799148730&aid=olEpvMdE5iM
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If we drink the bucky ball-tritium enhanced- process voc laden water we will start reading stories about spontaneous-combusting people.
It is a path of insanity, disease and death that we are on. That is what we have accomplished for the children. Prove to me it is not true!
People put poisons on their lawns and the kids sport fields and then make them play their sport there every weekend because that's the program.
I'll walk off into the sunset muttering of the insanity of it all because people are not thinking of the consequences of their actions. I tried and have not been able to change one thing!
Ecosystems are overloaded with stuff that nature never had to deal with. It's a death trip.
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The sad part is the gatekeepers of much of our land, the farmers, are typically all for pesticides and nuclear power plants. At least in my neck of the woods they seem to be.
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Glass radioactive nanoparticles found in worker's lungs
"The study concludes that insoluble cesium particles lodged in the workers lungs, preventing them from leaving the body through normal processes."
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=15616
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Pandora's box has been opened and the corporaperson does not have moral backbone to tell the People what is in store for them.
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Something bad apparently definitely did not happen (sarc) last week in Ukraine;
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=UEV-20160721-54185-UKR
Local wind was very calm on 16th/17th/18th in the region so confirmation of any atmospheric release from the NPP (using EURDEP monitors) will likely be difficult.
Nothing via IAEA that I can find, but I suppose it's hoping too much that they would be investigating something like this.
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Greenpeace reports jump in radioactive contamination in Fukushima waterways
July 21 2016
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/21/national/greenpeace-reports-jump-radioactive-contamination-fukushima-waterways/#.V5DGPI-cHVJ
"One sample of sediment taken along the Niida River, less than 30 km northwest of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant, revealed the presence of cesium-134 and cesium-137 at levels of 29,800 becquerels per kilogram.
That was just one of 19 samples of dried sediment and soil the environmental activist group took and analyzed from the banks of the Abukuma, Niida, and Ota rivers. The samples were collected by Greenpeace in February and March.
All of the samples but one exhibited more than 1,000 Bq/kg of radioactive material. The lowest level, 309 Bq/kg, was logged at a spot along the Abukuma River."
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Radiation along Fukushima rivers up to 200 times higher than Pacific Ocean seabed – Greenpeace
July 2016
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/radiation-along-fukushima-rivers-200-times-higher-pacific-ocean-seabed-greenpeace
The seabed is only lower because of dispersal ..NOT DILUTION.
But it all heads that way..
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MD Anderson’s motto is “Making Cancer History.” If it hadn’t been for Anderson, I wouldn’t be here today. The hospital has the finest most dedicated doctors and nurses anywhere. As one nurse told me “when you come to Anderson, we know you are sick.” Many moons ago before I contracted cancer , I gave blood at Anderson. M.D. Anderson would call at all times to get blood because I had the type that would mix with any other blood. At that time, the hospital was about five stories high and about two blocks wide by about say three blocks long. When I started taking chemo, the hospital added a new section to the old part that was another three blocks long by say three blocks wide. The new part is about eight stories high. While I was there, Anderson decided to build a new part completely around the old hospital. The old hospital is now inside of the new part. The stories increased by two or three. As time moved on, Anderson bought the old Prudential Ins building across the street and converted it into a hospital. Later behind the Prudential building, Anderson built a new cancer prevention building that is about twelve to fourteen stories high.
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Anderson also built a Hotel across the street to aid bankrupt cancer victims. They have constructed walkways over Holcombe blvd. to connect all of the buildings. There is a large cafeteria, two or three Starbucks, and two or three small stores. The complex is much like an airport with electric cars running patients and visitors between buildings. The complex is in the heart of the Medical Center. There is MD Anderson in Bay Area, MD Anderson Katy, MD Anderson Sugarland, MD Anderson Memorial City, MD Anderson Woodlands, and MD Anderson Network with hospitals overseas. This is just one of the major cancer hospitals in Houston. There is Memorial Hermann and Methodist who are not by any means little league. Goggle Memorial Hermann and you’ll get the idea. Of course Memorial Hermann is not just a cancer hospital and Methodist St. Lukes is home to Debakey heart center. This is not even counting the small treatment centers. I think Cancer is making history of the human race.
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