I found this article on a site called:
This site is pretty sweet when it comes to "eco" events, news, developments, and ideas. So you might want to check it out.
The article or "press release" is titled "GE UNIT, UNIONBANCAL UNIT, BUY CALIFORNIA WIND FARM FIRST PHASE OF ONE OF LARGEST US WIND ENERGY PROJECTS STARTING OPERATIONS" which pretty much sum's up what the whole thing is about.
Basically GE decided to buy the first wind farm that it needs to begin a wind energy project. This project is planned to be a 3,000-megawatt project. When complete it will provide electricity for 1.4 California homes. This article was very interesting to me because it not only demonstrates our steps towards furthering our dependance on alternative energy but it also demonstrated a company's good faith in allowing for the sale of the company to allow the company (Terra-Gen) to continue to operate itself and aid in the generation of $6 billion for renewable energy invesments. I hope that GE continues on this path of its "commitment to ecoimagination".
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Eco event #6 Little Japan, Big Trouble pt. 2
For the first part of my Japan posts I focused mainly on the actual Tsunami and the damage to the city. For the 2nd part I am going to focus soley on the nuclear problems coming from this happening.
Fukushima Dai-Ichi is an nuclear plant that has been severely affected by the tsunami that struck on March 11th. The tsunami has caused severe damage to 4 of the 6 nuclear reactors that Fukushima houses and today (march 17th) workers are trying everything they can to cool one of the dangerously overheated reactors. The tsunami has damaged the reactors so that the rod's in the reactors aren't staying cool causing the reactors to overheat and if they continue to do so it could result in a "complete meltdown" which would release dangerous amounts of radiation into sourounding areas. The article says that right now the dangeous levels are only on-site at the plant.
But.... What will be the long term affects of this radiation? What about short term? On the top of this article where i read about all of this "Physicist Michio Kaku tells msnbc's Richard Liu that cooling attempts like using helicopter drops to cool down the 700 tons of spent fuel at Japan's Fukushima reactor site won't be enough, that they would be better served with a 'Chernobyl' approach"
What's going to happen? I think the radiation might just cause zombies to come. What about you?
Fukushima Dai-Ichi is an nuclear plant that has been severely affected by the tsunami that struck on March 11th. The tsunami has caused severe damage to 4 of the 6 nuclear reactors that Fukushima houses and today (march 17th) workers are trying everything they can to cool one of the dangerously overheated reactors. The tsunami has damaged the reactors so that the rod's in the reactors aren't staying cool causing the reactors to overheat and if they continue to do so it could result in a "complete meltdown" which would release dangerous amounts of radiation into sourounding areas. The article says that right now the dangeous levels are only on-site at the plant.
But.... What will be the long term affects of this radiation? What about short term? On the top of this article where i read about all of this "Physicist Michio Kaku tells msnbc's Richard Liu that cooling attempts like using helicopter drops to cool down the 700 tons of spent fuel at Japan's Fukushima reactor site won't be enough, that they would be better served with a 'Chernobyl' approach"
What's going to happen? I think the radiation might just cause zombies to come. What about you?
Eco Event #5 Big Trouble, Little Japan pt. 1
So i felt it necessary to split up whats going on in japan into two seperate posts because there are two very diffrent (but related) things that are happening/happened in Japan recently.
First off the Tsunami/Earthquake. Im sure we've all heard what happened, but just incase you live under a rock ~here~ is an article describing what took place on March 11th.
The Tsunami that struck Japan was caused by an 8.9/10 magnatude earthquake
(thats real bad) this is the 5th largest earthquake since 1900 and the largest in Japan for over 140 years. The city of Sendai was hit by two main tsunami waves, the first about 20ft high and the 2nd about 33ft high. The quake and tsunami have completely ravaged the cities it hit with flooding and physical damage. The death toll now is over 5,000 and there really isnt much hope for the affected places due to a new developing problem with the damage caused to the nuclear industries in the affected area.
The fact that this extremely modern and developed place has been hit by this tsunami is a big deal, alot of people will be out of work and the long term affects of this event are still unfolding. Will Tokyo return to its orginial splendor? How long will it take? What do you think?
First off the Tsunami/Earthquake. Im sure we've all heard what happened, but just incase you live under a rock ~here~ is an article describing what took place on March 11th.
The Tsunami that struck Japan was caused by an 8.9/10 magnatude earthquake
(thats real bad) this is the 5th largest earthquake since 1900 and the largest in Japan for over 140 years. The city of Sendai was hit by two main tsunami waves, the first about 20ft high and the 2nd about 33ft high. The quake and tsunami have completely ravaged the cities it hit with flooding and physical damage. The death toll now is over 5,000 and there really isnt much hope for the affected places due to a new developing problem with the damage caused to the nuclear industries in the affected area.
The fact that this extremely modern and developed place has been hit by this tsunami is a big deal, alot of people will be out of work and the long term affects of this event are still unfolding. Will Tokyo return to its orginial splendor? How long will it take? What do you think?
Eco Event #4 Efficiency = More consumption?
I just read this article and it's somthing that I think is a great point that I have considered before and that i think should be more widley talked about. The article is basically proposing that becoming more efficient may just make us consume more. In the article the writer of the article bases this on the coal and computer industries.What I have thought all along and what this writer is saying is that in order for efficiency to work, we cant drive twice as much because now our car uses half the fuel, if we want efficiency to work we need to learn to control ourselves and do what we need to do, not everything we want to. This doesnt mean stay home! Dont go out! SAVEEEEEE. But it does mean that we need to stop being wasteful and start being EFFICIENT.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
eco event #3 More dead animals?!?
MSN.com is my homepage, and today when i opened up the browser i saw a headline that said "Millions of dead Fish" and i was shocked, because this is now the 2nd time in like 2 or 3 months that a large group of animals has turned up dead and both events took place in the US.
HERE is a link to the article.
The article says that the scientists "tentatively" said that they all died of oxygen depravation. They said they must have all just swam into a pocket where there was no air and died. Is that even possible? couldnt they just swim back to where they could catch a breath? Can there even be just a patch of water off the coast of LA lacking oxygen? I think its very peculiar that twice now in a very short period of time TWO "rare but possible" large deaths of animals have occured with little to no explanation. Im not really sure what to make of it, and i really hope it doesnt continue. This is definetely not "natural selection" as the article suggests.
HERE is a link to the article.
The article says that the scientists "tentatively" said that they all died of oxygen depravation. They said they must have all just swam into a pocket where there was no air and died. Is that even possible? couldnt they just swim back to where they could catch a breath? Can there even be just a patch of water off the coast of LA lacking oxygen? I think its very peculiar that twice now in a very short period of time TWO "rare but possible" large deaths of animals have occured with little to no explanation. Im not really sure what to make of it, and i really hope it doesnt continue. This is definetely not "natural selection" as the article suggests.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
eco event #2
i found this video using stumble, i think you'll like it
http://www.activeion.com/HowItWorks.aspx
i thought this was very interesting, the idea that water with charge could be used as an alternative to cleaner is groundbreaking. Not only will that reshape the cleaning industry but i think it would help us alot, it would eliminate the need for all of these man made cleaners. This is much more sustainable that what we're doing now, and this is a totally natural way to do somthing we go through alot of trouble to achieve now a days.
what do you think?
http://www.activeion.com/HowItWorks.aspx
i thought this was very interesting, the idea that water with charge could be used as an alternative to cleaner is groundbreaking. Not only will that reshape the cleaning industry but i think it would help us alot, it would eliminate the need for all of these man made cleaners. This is much more sustainable that what we're doing now, and this is a totally natural way to do somthing we go through alot of trouble to achieve now a days.
what do you think?
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