Heatwave shuts down nuclear power plants
The absurdity continues. My rant the other day concerned the lack of integration in Britain's energy sources - I omitted to mention nuclear power simply because it has no duality of function whatsoever. Indeed, a project with any sense would be inclined to avoid such sites like the plague. Our Prime Preacher, in his vast unwisdom, has taken on the additional evangelical chore of promoting these monsters since he clearly can't get his head around the alternatives.
Now we hear of a greater folly courtesy of the headline link above. The current heatwave is merely a foretaste of things to come as global warming now sets in across the planet, yet it seems a few degrees of extra warmth is enough to cause the shutdown of nuclear plants. Can you image the chaos in a high-temperature future where the majority of our power is provided by this wasteful and pollutiing method?
Nuclear power is a long-term folly of an unimaginable degree. The cost of implementing it cannot be covered by the companies responsible - the needed subsidy will cost the state (and taxpayer) a fortune that could be spent developing new sustainable options, the fasle profits then made by the operators will then be siphoned off by corporate interests and shareholders, then finally the entire plant will reach the end of its life with incalculable radioactive by-product left as waste. That "waste" will then be "buried" underground, in all likelyhood leaking out again as the planet seeks to re-stabilise itself during the coming onslaught to its ecosystem. The only recycling prospect his the use of depleted uranium to tip the warheads of bombs for use in the war adventures whereby the victims are suject to a lingering radioactive poisoning.
As we claim to be interested in building "democracy" in a country like the now-wasted Iraq, just remember how many of its population are dying off slowly from the radiation we've hit them with in the last couple of years. Israhell's doing it too to the South Lebanon - in a few decades there will be less population to worry about!
So Blair has departed once again for the heart of Empire. The present he takes is permission for Bush and company to use Scotland for transport "hazardous" materials to the Israhelli war machine. The "present" he gets back is a bit of half0hearted PR by which he looks to be the peace-maker by getting support for a UN force in South Lebanon itself. This is all posturing - Israhell has said itself that it will not accept any international force of peace-keepers provided by the UN. They want the sole decision on contributing nations to any such force - ie: those "on-side" with the Zionist cause.
Blair's Amerikan adventure has been slightly hi-jacked by the Israhell problem anyway. He's over there to hang out with that sub-emperor of sorts, Rupert Murdock. Who knows what misdeeds he's planning at the big News Corporation party?
That last will not feature high on the newswires, if for no other reason than Murdock owns most of them and anything available will be a sanitised or biased pitch. The public show will be the rendezvous with Arnie and photo-ops with environmental projects. Arnie's California may well be diverging from the Bush administration on energy matters, but the entire escapade is symptomic of Blair's addiction to the culture of Amerika itself. Not really the place to be if you want to set an example. His oppostion counterpart in Britain, David Cameron, at least had the foresight to look toward Northen Europe on sound ecological matters.
Not that Blair cares one iota either way. He's reaching his political end-days and will be paying more attention to hob-nobbing with the behind-the-scenes power-brokers with whom his future is pre-ordained.
Later.
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