2012-03-15, 06:22 | Link #2521 |
Honyaku no Hime
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Japan Direct - a look at the country beyond the headlines Since it is frustrating to be trapped by the West's habits of sensationalism and not reporting more on the human stories in regards to the entire disaster, so the BBC it seems have been trying and updating with articles, videos and stuff related more to the people trying to get one 1 year later.
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2012-03-17, 00:36 | Link #2523 |
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Location: Half Australia, Half Tokyo, Bits and pieces in US
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The earthquake the oth day was nothing big.
The train stopped for safety purposes, and some areas liquified again, but that's it. I think anything less than a magnitude 7 gets shrugged off these days. |
2012-03-24, 01:53 | Link #2524 | |
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Japan's Fukushima to host geothermal plant: report
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2012-03-24, 05:24 | Link #2525 | |
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It's a stop-gap technology, and there are limited places where you can build it, but we now know there is no perfect solution. Best to branch out and spread your bets on multiple options. They can't all fail at the same time.
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2012-03-25, 08:27 | Link #2526 | |
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Tsunami ghost ship drifts near Canada coast
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2012-03-25, 15:07 | Link #2527 | |
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2012-03-26, 01:17 | Link #2528 |
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Japan left with one nuclear reactor after shutdown
Well, well, well... According to the link, Japan has only one functional nuclear plant remaining after protests prevented the restarting of the Niiagata plant. If the Hokkaido Plant gets shut down by protest in May, Japan might become nuclear free through brute public pressure. Who knows if this sticks, but I certainly wasn't expecting this. I guess in the end no plant can operate without local citizen approval, I just don't expect this to happen to ALL of them. Best of luck to them. I personally think this is going hysterical, but I understand that everyone has the right to defend themselves from what they view as threats. The transition to renewables might happen in Japan first ahead of everyone else. And all because they are now running out of options.
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2012-03-26, 01:30 | Link #2531 |
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Japan's been restarting old gas power stations and burning imported gas. They are basically burning money. There is also country wide power saving efforts and government regulation on industry power restrictions.
It is hard to imagine. Japan used to depend on nuclear energy so much. How they handle the transition would be a test case recorded for posterity. The question is which would happen first? The money runs out and Japan has permanent rolling black outs, fear of nuclear plants subsiding and the plants come back online, or some miraculous advancement made renewables viable as replacements.
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2012-03-26, 08:13 | Link #2532 |
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I went on a guided tour of New Zealand last year. Driving near one of the country's many coal mines, our guide said the Japanese are one of their biggest customers--but what they mainly do is dump the coal in the ocean as a sort of energy reserve in case of emergency, and also so they don't have the problem of windblown coal dust.
Have they been raiding this reserve lately? |
2012-03-26, 08:52 | Link #2533 | |
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2012-03-26, 20:04 | Link #2535 | |
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Opportunity Time Supply and demand. You don't want to pay to dig it out at a time when you need it most and at a time when the labor costs and other factors will make it expensive. So your taking advantage of a window of opportunity costs.. if the phrase makes sense. so just: get it out now as cheap as possible and store it for later. The USA has huge oil reserves for this reason. |
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2012-04-11, 09:05 | Link #2536 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Cant remember, if this was posted in here, but just for the record.
Once in a while, i check on the livestream and on youtube about the current status and events, that are happening on the Fukushima Power Plant. Here are three of many, very... unique videos of the Fukushima livestream. Check this video from 2:07 . It speaks for itself. "Say cheeeeese". Check from 0:24, a man pointing his finger right towards the camera. Its still not known, who this was, but the best speculations so far are, that he is a reporter, who snug in or that this is a TEPCO worker, who knows the truth and tells us "you are next".
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2012-05-01, 14:02 | Link #2537 |
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Someone's Harley washed up in British Columbia.
Hopefully the owner survived, and will get his/her bike back. (The finder brought it to the Japanese consulate in Vancouver, just as the Japanese government has been asking people to do up and down the NW North American coast.) If not, would some "lucky" Canadian be able to keep it? (I say "lucky" because the bike will probably be cursed. ) Last edited by andyjay729; 2012-05-01 at 14:24. |
2012-05-01, 14:25 | Link #2538 | |
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P.S I heard of this from a friend.....someone immediately crashed a BMW he bought because the original owner was murdered overseas and almost died. Never buy/take a dead man's belongings if you are not his/her kin...especially anything that is deeply loved or a can be used as a weapon.
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2012-05-02, 12:08 | Link #2539 |
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They found the owner, fortunately, so no need to worry about bosozoku ghosts demanding their wheels back.
There's a link here to another story about a signed soccer ball being returned to its owner a couple months ago. (Next time I'm keeping it! Now get off my lawn 'fore I have to take my belt off, ya good-fer-nothing little whippersnappers!) |
2012-05-02, 12:32 | Link #2540 | |
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