THE GREEN MIRAGE

Review of Forbes On-line Magazine Article
“Solar Energy Revolution: A Massive Opportunity”
By: Tom Tamarkin
Founder Fusion4Freedom & President USCL Corp

Excerpts:

"Tesla Motors is a great company and the electric car is a great idea. However as more and more are built we must generate much more electricity to charge their batteries. Today, setting nuclear aside due to public perception, fossil fuel electricity is the lowest cost, and most reliable."

"Solar in fact is not an appropriate utility baseload grid level solution based on cost, required land area, operational expenses, and short life cycle."

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LIghts out?

The Inquisitr invited Tom Tamarkin, founder & CEO of USCL and EnergyCite®, for a no-holds barred discussion:

Despite all the misleading and overly optimistic claims to the contrary, the truth is that by the year 2060, all the planet’s known reserves of fossil fuel will run dry. Before we begin our discussion about the depletion of the world’s oil reserves and the fact that there is no current alternative energy technology other than nuclear fission capable of replacing oil, I think it would be useful if you gave our readers an insight into your background as an innovator in the energy industry, and as a humanitarian trying to build a better world.

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Where have all the robots gone?

For now, Tepco's alternatives to continuing to expose workers to radiation are few. The power company could resort to using “jumpers,” which Reuters describes as “people who rush into a highly radioactive area, do one job, and then jump out within minutes. Some in the industry even refer to them as ‘gamma sponges' or ‘glow boys' because they can absorb a year's worth of radiation in those few minutes.” In an arguably stranger twist, both Germany and the U.S. have also offered to lend Japan radiation-proof robots to take some of the burden off the flesh-and-blood workforce.

Come again? Is it really possible, given the nation's famous obsession with artificial intelligence, that Japan doesn't have its own? Japanese robots can shred the violin, play baseball, build cars and strut down the catwalk. In fact, when I was in Japan reporting on the disasters earlier this month, I saw a humanoid robot directing traffic away from a closed lane on the highway late at night. Sure, the bot robs somebody of a salary, but it also probably saves human lives. Get that traffic safety person — with the vision to apply Japan's technological proclivity to real life — over to disaster preparedness. Stat.

What's in Store for Japan's Embattled Nuclear Workers?

[I don't think that the 'glow boys' are shiny happy people though...]

Japanese: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone"

President Obama’s Trivial Pursuits

Keith Koffler: The Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions...

Japan's apocalypse now

UK DAILY MAIL: Rescuers pick their way through a wasteland of bodies, wreckage and people washing in rivers

Potassium Iodide: Minimizing Down Wind Radiation Exposure from Japan

TheDocIsIn has done our homework for us (I live less than 20 miles from the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles):

Living on the west coast of the United States and concerned about potential down wind effect of Japan’s nuclear reactors “melting down”, we were prompted to call a number of local stores (within a 30 mile radius) seeking potassium iodide tablets. None were available. Several online sources were “sold out”. This prompted an Internet search on the topic and the information copied below was most helpful...

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UPDATE RE: Potassium Iodide for Prevention of Internal Uptake of Radioactive Iodine

Issue:

Questions about use of potassium iodide during current crisis in Japan

Details:

Health care providers, call center staff etc, are being inundated with questions and requests about purchasing potassium iodide products in the wake of Japan's current nuclear power plant crisis.

Directives:

In the mean time, to assist clinicians who are being pummeled with requests for potassium iodide and/or questions about the use of potassium iodide during the current crisis, please refer to the FAQs posted by the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control. These FAQs should assist in educating both yourself and your patients about this issue.

California Dept. of Public Health FAQ:
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/RadiationFAQS2011.aspx

CDC Info about Potassium Iodide:
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp#howmuchki

The new "green" nuke!

Uranium Is So Last Century...

Not So Fast With Those Electric Cars

Investors Business Daily reports on alternative energy myths: A government report says reliance on electric cars will do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and may merely shift our dependence on foreign sources from one set of dictators to another.

The Prophet Obama

Since Time Magazine has been allowed to call Obama a prophet, I am going to state that he is more likely the False Prophet spoken of in the Book of Revelation (New Testament) regarding the "end times."

Even more strategically devastating than his castigation of Israel as the villain in the Arab-Israel conflict is Obama’s stated policy towards Iran. In Cairo, Obama offered Iran nuclear energy in exchange for its nuclear-weapons program. This offer has been on the table since 2003 and has been repeatedly rejected by the Iranians. Indeed, they rejected it yet again last week.

Obama must know that his policy will not lead to the hoped for change in Iran’s behavior. And since he must know this, the only rational explanation for his decision to adopt a policy he knows will fail is that he is comfortable with the idea of Iran becoming a nuclear power. And this is something that Israel cannot abide by.

The only silver lining for Israelis from the president’s speech in Cairo and his general positions on the Middle East is that Obama has overplayed his hand. Far from bending to his will, a large majority of Israelis perceives Obama as a hostile force and has rallied in support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against the administration. This public support gives Netanyahu the maneuver room he needs to take the actions that Israel needs to take to defend against the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran and to assert its national rights and to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists and other Arab and non-Arab anti-Semites who wish it ill.

Caroline Glick Exposes Obama