Nuclear Energy

In the year 2050, I suffer from a serious heart attack. Artificial intelligence spots it with embedded sensors and alerts emergency… — In the year 2050, I suffer from a serious heart attack. Artificial intelligence spots it with embedded sensors and alerts emergency services immediately. A doctor conducts noninvasive surgery using microscopic robots, saving my life. Fast forward to the year 2100. Biotechnology has cured cancer and slowed down biological aging. On…

GREENING THE ENERGY SOURCE — GREENING THE ENERGY SOURCE In line with their climate pledges, many countries are racing to achieve a carbon-neutral economy by the middle of the century. Globally, energy is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for about 25% of total GHG emissions Link. Therefore, reimagining the energy infrastructure…

A nuclear accident that happened in 1979 colored how many viewed Skylab’s impending reentry. — A nuclear accident that happened in 1979 colored how many viewed Skylab’s impending reentry. Less than three months before Skylab’s reentry, a nuclear incident of unprecedented proportions unfolded around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, striking fear into the city’s (and nation’s) populace and effectively ending the United States’ commercial nuclear power industry. Much…

Introduction — Introduction Fermi Paradox states the paradox that our universe doesn’t appear to be filled with Alien civilizations, on the contrary of the abundunce of exoplanets and well-aged galaxies and stars. Current scientific community resolves this paradox by introducing the concept of great filter, which kills alien civizations that are not…

Warning: Spoilers for Netflix Show Meltdown. — Warning: Spoilers for Netflix Show Meltdown. Netflix’s latest documentary Meltdown: Three Mile Island directed by Keif Davidson, gives a shaking account of the events surrounding the first (allegations abound about similar events before in the Soviet Union, hidden from public, as well as relatively less serious incidents in the US) serious commercial nuclear accident at Middletown…

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/04/the-establishments-obsession-with-nuclear-power-just-wont-die/ — https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/04/the-establishments-obsession-with-nuclear-power-just-wont-die/ Fossil fuels need to be phased out. Renewable energy won’t be adequate to power our current lifeways. Nuclear energy is toxic and dangerous. Part of the process of greening our society will be movement away from things that are toxic and dangerous.

Looking at past temperatures across the world, over the last 40 years the Earth has been warming at the rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius per… — Looking at past temperatures across the world, over the last 40 years the Earth has been warming at the rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade, which means that we have risen in total around 0.8 degrees. Our global surface temperatures in 2021 show that we are still currently on…