Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life”
Tiny amounts of this miracle molecule make life on Earth possible
Paul Driessen 8/14/2013
http://q.gs/4rLun
Carbon Dioxide: The Green Greenhouse Gas of Life (and ‘miracle molecule’)
by Paul Driessen
August 13, 2013
http://q.gs/4rLs3
What if we could turn carbon dioxide into electricity?
7/24/2013
http://q.gs/4homB
Carbon Is Life: Why humans and wildlife depend upon carbon dioxide nutrient, and how false global warming claims put all our lives at risk
Paperback – June 25, 2013
by Ron House
http://nuke6.blogspot.com/2013/09/carbon-is-life-why-humans-and-wildlife.html
If carbon dioxide is so bad for the planet, why do greenhouse growers buy CO2 generators to double plant growth?
June 22, 2013
http://adf.ly/QxZCj
Al Gore backlash: Why environmentalists are celebrating rising CO2 levels
6/02/2013
http://q.gs/4hHgr
Global warming debunked: NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere
May 22, 2013
http://q.gs/4hHhF
(NaturalNews) Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA's Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long claimed are overheating and destroying our planet are actually cooling it, based on the latest evidence.
Pioneering British firm produces 'petrol from air' in breakthrough that could solve the world's energy crisis
Stockton-on-Tees-based Air Fuel Synthesis claims they can make petrol directly from water and carbon dioxide in the air
10/19/2012
http://q.gs/2N6uT
CO2 myth busted: Why we need more carbon dioxide to grow food and forests
March 31, 2013
http://q.gs/4hHht
Carbon tax proven useless against global warming
December 18, 2012
http://q.gs/4hHiK
(NaturalNews) For years, global warming advocates have argued that implementing some sort of carbon tax would substantially reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by the heavily industrialized United States.
CO2 & Climate Facts
1/2009
http://q.gs/4rLwp
Top 15 Climate Myths
1/2009
http://goo.gl/iixVPV
Monday, September 30, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Pro-Nuke Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy Power Plants
Bill Gates and China Developing Nuclear Reactor
Dec 7, 2011
Welcome to CRWE Newswire News Update, I'm Christina Collins --- Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. co-founder says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor --- Wednesday, Gates said during a talk at China's Ministry of Science & Technology that the idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste --- Gates backs Washington-based TerraPower, which is developing a nuclear reactor that can run on depleted uranium --- He says TerraPower is having good discussions with state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation --- Gates says possibly as much as a billion dollars will be put into research and development over the next five years --- Thank you for joining me for and stay with us for all your latest in News for CRWENewswire NewsUpdate, I'm Christina Collins
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Bill Gates on Energy Innovation
11/23/2011
Bill Gates on the Potential of New Nuclear Technology
May 12, 2011
Bill Gates reflects on the future of nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. "Software simulation changes the game," argues Gates, highlighting the advantage of being able to virtually test new designs before building them. ----- Energy Innovation: A Tour of the Most Promising Technologies to Replace Oil and Coal Bill Gates, Co-Chair & Trustee, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairman, Microsoft Corporation in conversation with Chris Anderson Bill Gates III is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. In July 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates continues to serve as Microsoft's chairman and an advisor on key development projects.
Bill Gates: "I love nuclear."
From a speech delivered at MIT, Bill Gates discusses his support for nuclear energy. Recorded April 21, 2010 | Kresge Auditorium | Cambridge, MA.
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
Feb 20, 2010
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! (Video)
5/3/2011
http://q.gs/2YFmI
Dec 7, 2011
Welcome to CRWE Newswire News Update, I'm Christina Collins --- Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. co-founder says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor --- Wednesday, Gates said during a talk at China's Ministry of Science & Technology that the idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste --- Gates backs Washington-based TerraPower, which is developing a nuclear reactor that can run on depleted uranium --- He says TerraPower is having good discussions with state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation --- Gates says possibly as much as a billion dollars will be put into research and development over the next five years --- Thank you for joining me for and stay with us for all your latest in News for CRWENewswire NewsUpdate, I'm Christina Collins
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Bill Gates on Energy Innovation
11/23/2011
Bill Gates on the Potential of New Nuclear Technology
May 12, 2011
Bill Gates reflects on the future of nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. "Software simulation changes the game," argues Gates, highlighting the advantage of being able to virtually test new designs before building them. ----- Energy Innovation: A Tour of the Most Promising Technologies to Replace Oil and Coal Bill Gates, Co-Chair & Trustee, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairman, Microsoft Corporation in conversation with Chris Anderson Bill Gates III is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. In July 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates continues to serve as Microsoft's chairman and an advisor on key development projects.
Bill Gates: "I love nuclear."
From a speech delivered at MIT, Bill Gates discusses his support for nuclear energy. Recorded April 21, 2010 | Kresge Auditorium | Cambridge, MA.
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
Feb 20, 2010
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! (Video)
5/3/2011
http://q.gs/2YFmI
Monday, September 16, 2013
Carbon Is Life: Why humans and wildlife depend upon carbon dioxide nutrient, and how false global warming claims put all our lives at risk
Carbon Is Life: Why humans and wildlife depend upon carbon dioxide nutrient, and how false global warming claims put all our lives at risk
Paperback – June 25, 2013
by Ron House (Author) http://amzn.to/164y7xe
CARBON IS LIFE is the must-read book for everyone concerned with the environment and the wonderful creatures who share it with us. The writer, a trained scientist, shows why carbon dioxide, far from being “pollution”, is actually the essential basis of life on Earth.
The book is written for the intelligent lay reader. It shows, with reference to thousands of peer-reviewed scientific experiments, how more carbon dioxide in the air will feed hundreds of millions of humans and untold numbers of wildlife.
This means that, as a society, we are currently setting up taxes on carbon that will force us to do exactly the opposite of what is needed to help the planet and ourselves. These are huge and vitally important claims, the truth of which would require us to completely reverse course on all our ‘climate change’ policies.
Accordingly, Carbon Is Life sets out the case in a clear and logical way so that the reader can verify the facts for him- or herself. But as important as the hard facts is the puzzle of how we could all come to believe the precise opposite of the truth?
To gain some insight into this, the author explores our situation as members of a unique technological species, and our exile from the natural world that followed from our technological mastery, and which is portrayed symbolically in the story of the Garden of Eden.
The book ends with some suggestions from the author about our future and our choices as the “thinking, tool-making, language-using, record-keeping, technological, star-gazing, story-telling, civilisation-building species that nature made us.”
About the Author
Ron House is a trained physicist and a computer science lecturer, who decided to investigate the global warming theory after retirement from full-time teaching. He is a spiritual inquirer with a keen interest in philosophy, a combination which led him to discover the ethical theory which he called the Principle of Goodness. He and his wife Gitie have a special relationship with a family of Australian magpies and their butcherbird, currawong, and noisy miner friends. Ron has authored books and papers on computing, ethics, philosophy, humanities, and wild birds. http://amzn.to/164y7xe
Paperback – June 25, 2013
by Ron House (Author) http://amzn.to/164y7xe
CARBON IS LIFE is the must-read book for everyone concerned with the environment and the wonderful creatures who share it with us. The writer, a trained scientist, shows why carbon dioxide, far from being “pollution”, is actually the essential basis of life on Earth.
The book is written for the intelligent lay reader. It shows, with reference to thousands of peer-reviewed scientific experiments, how more carbon dioxide in the air will feed hundreds of millions of humans and untold numbers of wildlife.
This means that, as a society, we are currently setting up taxes on carbon that will force us to do exactly the opposite of what is needed to help the planet and ourselves. These are huge and vitally important claims, the truth of which would require us to completely reverse course on all our ‘climate change’ policies.
Accordingly, Carbon Is Life sets out the case in a clear and logical way so that the reader can verify the facts for him- or herself. But as important as the hard facts is the puzzle of how we could all come to believe the precise opposite of the truth?
To gain some insight into this, the author explores our situation as members of a unique technological species, and our exile from the natural world that followed from our technological mastery, and which is portrayed symbolically in the story of the Garden of Eden.
The book ends with some suggestions from the author about our future and our choices as the “thinking, tool-making, language-using, record-keeping, technological, star-gazing, story-telling, civilisation-building species that nature made us.”
About the Author
Ron House is a trained physicist and a computer science lecturer, who decided to investigate the global warming theory after retirement from full-time teaching. He is a spiritual inquirer with a keen interest in philosophy, a combination which led him to discover the ethical theory which he called the Principle of Goodness. He and his wife Gitie have a special relationship with a family of Australian magpies and their butcherbird, currawong, and noisy miner friends. Ron has authored books and papers on computing, ethics, philosophy, humanities, and wild birds. http://amzn.to/164y7xe
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Radioactive Tokyo Japan Radiation Test
Shocking Tokyo Japan Radiation Test by Chris Busby (Fukushima Fallout)
Jul 25, 2012
http://youtu.be/1Vurvqo5IWw
http://youtu.be/p9pk42kdL4k
Radioactive Warning! Tokyo Olympics 2020 Don't say we didn't Warn you!
9/04/2013
http://youtu.be/Eiygukn7l48
Japan Should Step Out Of The Race For The Olympics: Radioactive Tokyo
9/04/2013
http://youtu.be/5ghHlnwyNhQ
Tokyo's Radiation Olympics
9/08/2013 EnviroReporter
http://q.gs/4mSbm
Fukushima failures threatening to derail Tokyo's 2020 Olympics bid
The team behind Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics Games is scrambling to save its long and expensive campaign from falling victim to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
9/05/2013
http://q.gs/4mSZe
Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US
Mar 25, 2012
http://q.gs/4mncu
Jul 25, 2012
http://youtu.be/1Vurvqo5IWw
http://youtu.be/p9pk42kdL4k
Radioactive Warning! Tokyo Olympics 2020 Don't say we didn't Warn you!
9/04/2013
http://youtu.be/Eiygukn7l48
Japan Should Step Out Of The Race For The Olympics: Radioactive Tokyo
9/04/2013
http://youtu.be/5ghHlnwyNhQ
Tokyo's Radiation Olympics
9/08/2013 EnviroReporter
http://q.gs/4mSbm
Fukushima failures threatening to derail Tokyo's 2020 Olympics bid
The team behind Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics Games is scrambling to save its long and expensive campaign from falling victim to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
9/05/2013
http://q.gs/4mSZe
Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US
Mar 25, 2012
http://q.gs/4mncu
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Taishan nuclear plant safe, says deputy general manager Olivier Bard
Taishan nuclear plant safe, says deputy general manager Olivier Bard
Deputy general manager argues nuclear facility to operate from December is no threat to city
8 September, 2013
Olga Wong, SCMP
A manager of a power station labelled "the most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world" by Hong Kong engineer Albert Lai Kwong-tak sought yesterday to dismiss talk that it poses a threat to the city.
The nuclear power plant 130 kilometres away in Taishan, Guangdong, is due to start operating by December and will be the first in the world to use a new Franco-German pressurised-water reactor, known as EPR.
It has taken about four years to build, while two other plants using EPRs, in Finland and France, look as if they will take 10 years to build after a series of delays.
A fourth nuclear power station using the untried, third-generation technology is planned in Britain, where it has met with opposition from the public.
Hong Kong concern groups have asked whether the fact the Taishan plant was completed ahead of schedule is a sign the Chinese government is less stringent about nuclear safety than European governments.
"Taishan is smoother and faster because China kept on building nuclear plants for 20 years and France has to rebuild the skills. It stopped doing it for 15 years and workers have already retired," said Olivier Bard, deputy general manager of the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company - a partnership between French electricity company EDF and state-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power.
He added that the delays in France had nothing to do with safety issues.
Bard, in a talk organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers yesterday, said the Chinese government was "demanding" on safety standards compared to European governments.
Dr Luk Bing-lam, chairman of the Hong Kong Nuclear Society, said the Chinese government had asked for about 100 technical adjustments, while the British project had had fewer than 80 adjustments.
Bard defended the safety of the fully digitised Taishan plant, which is said to consume less fuel and produce less radioactive waste.
Luk said the public might have an irrational fear of the nuclear plant, adding that any leak was unlikely to affect areas beyond 10 kilometres.
Deputy general manager argues nuclear facility to operate from December is no threat to city
8 September, 2013
Olga Wong, SCMP
A manager of a power station labelled "the most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world" by Hong Kong engineer Albert Lai Kwong-tak sought yesterday to dismiss talk that it poses a threat to the city.
The nuclear power plant 130 kilometres away in Taishan, Guangdong, is due to start operating by December and will be the first in the world to use a new Franco-German pressurised-water reactor, known as EPR.
It has taken about four years to build, while two other plants using EPRs, in Finland and France, look as if they will take 10 years to build after a series of delays.
A fourth nuclear power station using the untried, third-generation technology is planned in Britain, where it has met with opposition from the public.
Hong Kong concern groups have asked whether the fact the Taishan plant was completed ahead of schedule is a sign the Chinese government is less stringent about nuclear safety than European governments.
"Taishan is smoother and faster because China kept on building nuclear plants for 20 years and France has to rebuild the skills. It stopped doing it for 15 years and workers have already retired," said Olivier Bard, deputy general manager of the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company - a partnership between French electricity company EDF and state-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power.
He added that the delays in France had nothing to do with safety issues.
Bard, in a talk organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers yesterday, said the Chinese government was "demanding" on safety standards compared to European governments.
Dr Luk Bing-lam, chairman of the Hong Kong Nuclear Society, said the Chinese government had asked for about 100 technical adjustments, while the British project had had fewer than 80 adjustments.
Bard defended the safety of the fully digitised Taishan plant, which is said to consume less fuel and produce less radioactive waste.
Luk said the public might have an irrational fear of the nuclear plant, adding that any leak was unlikely to affect areas beyond 10 kilometres.
Green groups fear 'most dangerous' nuclear power plant on Hong Kong's doorstep
Green groups fear 'most dangerous' nuclear power plant on Hong Kong's doorstep
Green groups say flawed and untested technology puts city at risk from 'world's most dangerous nuclear power plant'
5 September, 2013
Ernest Kao, SCMP
A nuclear power plant being built just 130 kilometres away from Hong Kong was yesterday labelled by green groups the 'most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world'.
A nuclear power plant being built just 130 kilometres away from Hong Kong was yesterday labelled by green groups the "most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world".
The plant in Taishan, Guangdong, is using technology that has never been used before and would put the city and another 30 million people at risk in the Pearl River Delta in the event of a Fukushima-style meltdown, say nine groups, including Greenpeace, Green Sense and the Professional Commons lobby group. They are calling on Hong Kong authorities and the provincial and national governments to look again at the risks involved.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, due to start operating in December, will run on two European pressurised reactors, or EPRs - a Franco-German pressurised-water reactor design which the groups say is still immature technology.
French nuclear power giant Areva sealed an €8 billion (HK$92.53 billion) deal to build the two reactors for China's state-owned Guangdong Nuclear Power Group in 2007. Construction began in 2009.
"It is very risky to import a European nuclear reactor technology that has not even met the proper nuclear safety standards and regulations in Europe," said Albert Lai Kwong-tak, an engineer and a policy expert at independent lobby group the Professional Commons.
Two EPR projects, one in France and another in Finland, have been plagued by delays after safety-related flaws were found. Both projects are not expected to be completed now until 2015 at the earliest, despite construction commencing years earlier than in Taishan.
Lai said that upon completion, Taishan would be the "most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world" given its potential radiation level was three times higher than Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
"Design flaws such as how to power cooling systems for its external spent nuclear fuel pool in the event of an emergency have not been addressed," he said.
"A digitised and automated emergency control unit also lacks a manual override … these are all lessons which should have been learnt after Fukushima.
"One must ask if Chinese authorities have taken any of these into account."
EPR technology is widely regarded as simpler, safer and more fuel-efficient.
Responding to media reports last week, the Security Bureau said the plant was too far away to have any impact on Hong Kong.
Chieng Ching-chang, a visiting professor at City University's department of mechanical and biomedical engineering, agreed.
"The distance between Taishan and Hong Kong is very far compared to the evacuation distance - usually in the order of five to 10 kilometres," she said. "EPR is a third-generation reactor and should be at least one order of magnitude safer than second-generation reactors in terms of core-damage frequency."
Areva did not respond to a request for comment yesterday.
Green groups say flawed and untested technology puts city at risk from 'world's most dangerous nuclear power plant'
5 September, 2013
Ernest Kao, SCMP
A nuclear power plant being built just 130 kilometres away from Hong Kong was yesterday labelled by green groups the 'most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world'.
A nuclear power plant being built just 130 kilometres away from Hong Kong was yesterday labelled by green groups the "most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world".
The plant in Taishan, Guangdong, is using technology that has never been used before and would put the city and another 30 million people at risk in the Pearl River Delta in the event of a Fukushima-style meltdown, say nine groups, including Greenpeace, Green Sense and the Professional Commons lobby group. They are calling on Hong Kong authorities and the provincial and national governments to look again at the risks involved.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, due to start operating in December, will run on two European pressurised reactors, or EPRs - a Franco-German pressurised-water reactor design which the groups say is still immature technology.
French nuclear power giant Areva sealed an €8 billion (HK$92.53 billion) deal to build the two reactors for China's state-owned Guangdong Nuclear Power Group in 2007. Construction began in 2009.
"It is very risky to import a European nuclear reactor technology that has not even met the proper nuclear safety standards and regulations in Europe," said Albert Lai Kwong-tak, an engineer and a policy expert at independent lobby group the Professional Commons.
Two EPR projects, one in France and another in Finland, have been plagued by delays after safety-related flaws were found. Both projects are not expected to be completed now until 2015 at the earliest, despite construction commencing years earlier than in Taishan.
Lai said that upon completion, Taishan would be the "most dangerous nuclear power plant in the world" given its potential radiation level was three times higher than Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
"Design flaws such as how to power cooling systems for its external spent nuclear fuel pool in the event of an emergency have not been addressed," he said.
"A digitised and automated emergency control unit also lacks a manual override … these are all lessons which should have been learnt after Fukushima.
"One must ask if Chinese authorities have taken any of these into account."
EPR technology is widely regarded as simpler, safer and more fuel-efficient.
Responding to media reports last week, the Security Bureau said the plant was too far away to have any impact on Hong Kong.
Chieng Ching-chang, a visiting professor at City University's department of mechanical and biomedical engineering, agreed.
"The distance between Taishan and Hong Kong is very far compared to the evacuation distance - usually in the order of five to 10 kilometres," she said. "EPR is a third-generation reactor and should be at least one order of magnitude safer than second-generation reactors in terms of core-damage frequency."
Areva did not respond to a request for comment yesterday.
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