Skeptical Science New Research for Week #13 2024
21 minutes ago
Yes, it is possible |
1878. Inactive since 1983 (a decorative light is displayed). 20 m (66 ft) octagonal cast iron tower with lantern and gallery, mounted on an octagonal stone base. Tower painted white with two narrow red horizontal bands; the lantern dome is also red.Three shots from various angles.
Mommy? |
"The risks associated with the expanded use of nuclear energy are orders of magnitude smaller than the risks associated with fossil fuels," the letter added.Furthermore, as written in the esteemed New York Times:
"But if the world decides in the 2030s and 2040s that it is time to deploy a new fleet of reactors, those will be based on work done in the few labs like this over the next decade, experts predict.That's right.
“In a carbon-constrained world, with that time frame, you better have some advanced reactors ready to go,” Dr. Peters said."
"Five of the eight computer models surveyed by BoM for its latest forecast published today (Tuesday 2 December 2014) suggest that El Niño thresholds for sea surface temperature will be exceeded this month.
However, the El Niño is likely to be weak and brief with only two of the models forecasting that it will be maintained into the southern hemisphere Autumn."
Yalta Breakwater Lighthouse from Panoramio |
From Flickr by Patrick Costello |
"The local go-ahead came after the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said in September it believed the two units at Sendai met toughened safety standards introduced after the Fukushima accident in 2011.
The actual restart, however, is likely to be delayed until next year as technical procedures are still under way, including more NRA approvals for remedial work at the site."
"Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks has said that if Europe's biggest economy doesn't reduce coal use, it has no chance of meeting its 2020 target of cutting Earth-warming carbon emissions by 40 percent from three decades earlier.
Hendricks' cabinet colleague in charge of the economy and energy, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, sees things differently and has argued that coal is here to stay, citing energy security, cost and many thousands of jobs.
"We can't simultaneously get out of nuclear and coal," Gabriel, the leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) who co-govern with Merkel's conservatives, has said."
"The coal boom in Germany is in part an echo of US shale gas boom.
Cheap natural gas in the United States means coal is being exported to Europe where it undercuts expensive Russian gas, making cleaner and more flexible modern gas plants unprofitable, and several have shut down.
Another factor has been the collapse of the European emissions market, a system meant to factor in the environmental cost of burning fossil fuels. As the penalty for carbon emissions has dropped in price, coal plants have become more lucrative."
1 | (1) | Chelsea | 32 | ||||||||
2 | (2) | Southampton | 26 | ||||||||
3 | (3) | Manchester City | 24 | ||||||||
4 | (4) | Manchester United | 19 | ||||||||
5 | (5) | Newcastle United | 19 | ||||||||
6 | (6) | West Ham United | 18 | ||||||||
7 | (7) | Swansea City | 18 | ||||||||
8 | (8) | Arsenal | 17 | ||||||||
9 | (9) | Everton | 17 | ||||||||
10 | (10) | Tottenham Hotspur | 17 | ||||||||
11 | (11) | Stoke City | 15 | ||||||||
12 | (12) | Liverpool | 14 | ||||||||
13 | (13) | West Bromwich Albion | 13 | ||||||||
14 | (14) | Sunderland | 13 | ||||||||
15 | (15) | Crystal Palace | 12 | ||||||||
16 | (17) | Aston Villa | 12 | ||||||||
17 | (16) | Hull City | 11 | ||||||||
18 | (18) | Leicester City | 10 | ||||||||
19 | (19) | Burnley | 10 | ||||||||
20 | (20) | Queens Park Rangers | 8 |