tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post4230447301331390372..comments2024-03-27T16:08:30.313-05:00Comments on The Great Change: Fuke-UndoAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-32098811560144929342015-02-23T12:32:57.356-06:002015-02-23T12:32:57.356-06:00Greetings! This proposal got further than I ever ...Greetings! This proposal got further than I ever thought it did, but alas, it ran aground. Still, I thought you might at least find it amusing. <br /><br />Proposal for Ecological Approach to Remediation of Daiichi Nuclear Power Generation Plant in Fukushima, Japan<br /><br />Dr. Richard Freeman<br />October 20, 2013<br /><br /><br />We propose that the clean-up team consider an ecological approach and immediately create some test plots based on this logic. In our nascent vision, an ecological approach would entail sopping up contaminated water with complex, life-supporting carbon structures (a a variety of wood chars, myceliated fungal substrates, humate-rich composts, and algae) and high-CEC clays, sequestering the water-borne isotopes within a complex, dynamic, living ecosystem, and harvesting/collecting and removing for processing surface vegetation and mushrooms containing high concentrations of isotopes (resulting from bio-magnification). This ecological vision also includes building two outlet baffles, one on each end of the inlet bay, in addition to massive structures to dissipate extreme forces from approaching and receding tsunami water flows around the plant. Aside from protecting against tidal force, these massive structures function to slow movement of contaminated water from the two water outlets, using flexible materials (like massive rock gabions) that allow flow but will withstand normal, pounding tidal force (mechanical energy) as well as immense mechanical force from tsunamis.<br /><br />In the following sections, we will provide (I) a brief hypothetical example of this vision -- a starting point open to discussion, improvement, and revision -- and, (II) a hypothetical example of a test plot structure -- also open to discussion, improvement, and revision. <br /><br />An ecological vision for remediation<br /><br />We will start this section with a sub-section on building massive, rock-gabion structures to dissipate daily and tsunami-caused tidal forces. Then, will move on to the sopping, sequestration, and collection processes..... and moreRicksterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11895718181098848417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-59383937366207923672015-02-05T10:32:43.265-06:002015-02-05T10:32:43.265-06:00The Japanese studies bring up an interesting thoug...The Japanese studies bring up an interesting thought; that if all these radionuclides originally came from an element from the earth, uranium, then what is at play in the rock layers that has prevented it from being dangerous at the surface of the earth in the first place? Nature is amazing, isn't it?Danny Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08239701610522812113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-38947428453209295082015-02-05T07:04:13.207-06:002015-02-05T07:04:13.207-06:00sent to Natue Bats Last & Ecoshock:
“We who t...sent to Natue Bats Last & Ecoshock:<br /><br />“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”<br />― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch<br /><br />Just because the world is ending, doesn’t mean we don’t fight, especially if it is hopeless. The Arctic Light Brigade’s “Omnicide 2023-2030″ is using fear to manufacture consent for geo-engineering the Arctic, all while we are doing nothing here at home to remedy the emissions-depletion-extinction problems.<br /><br />The idea of geoengineering the Arctic while we still have diposable lighters, pens, phones etc. is reprehensible in the extreme. Performing crazy experiments while engaging in business as usual is morally repugnant.<br />And, this from someone who’s not even sure what that means.<br /><br />Any of you who do pay attention, know that I’m some kind of crazy über-doomer, but I’ve been on a carbon-charred soil kick lately because it offers a small ray of hope. Albert Bates, over at http://peaksurfer.blogspot.ca/ , has found that some varient of carbon-charred soil can even remedy radioactivity from Fukushima using fossil diatoms and clay minerals.<br /><br />If we don’t pay people to carbon-charr soil in 2015, we’re fucked.<br />A mere 2% increase in carbon-charred soils offsets emissions 100%, making carbon-charred soil 6X more effective than anything else we can do. It also rejuvenate and remediates worn soils. No-brainers don’t get easier than this.<br /><br />Yet, we do have to have milestones, or, markers that show progress. So, if no mention is made of carbon-charring soils in Paris this year, then it is indeed time to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.<br /><br />Any plan to risk life on earth by fucking with the Arctic is incredibly asinine to the max, especially without picking the low-hanging carbon-reduction fruit here at home.<br /><br />added on:<br />Listen to Dr. James White, University of Colorado, who says the earth's climate is not stable and Greenland's ice cores show that the temperature can jump 10-15°C in just a few years. There are even data showing 10°C changes in as little as a year. Rate of snowfall can double in 1-3 years, methane goes up 50% in a lifetime, nitrous oxide goes up 10% in a lifetime. While these dramatic changes in the Arctic are 3 times what the rest of earth experienced, they are definitely more than enough to jam the workings of civilization. <br /><br />I strongly urge Guy to stop quoting Paul Beckwith because of the sheer number of credible climate scientists who do not support him, which by reflection hurts Guy's media credibility. You can listen to James White on this week's Radio Ecoshock. He's scary enough for sure, as well as credible enough i would guess. <br />http://www.reddit.com/r/RenewableEnergy/comments/2qg5s9/mass_extinction_vs_green_energy/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04420950447205737964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-28719471726078226862015-02-04T07:17:14.395-06:002015-02-04T07:17:14.395-06:00Crop and Pasture Lands are responsible for 80% of ...Crop and Pasture Lands are responsible for 80% of species extinctions.<br />A 2% increase in carbon-charred soil will offset emissions 100%, making carbon-charred soil 6X more effective than anything else we can do. It also rejuvenates and recovers worn soils.<br />This buys us time to reconcile world hunger, mass extinction and emissions.<br />Easy to say, hard to do. I cut grass in a trailer park in Canada, so I'm no scientist, but I did dream up a solution, although not too comprehensive, it is fanciful.<br />http://www.reddit.com/r/RenewableEnergy/comments/2tz0s7/how_to_fix_everything/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04420950447205737964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-13113885117344298102015-02-01T16:03:22.366-06:002015-02-01T16:03:22.366-06:00Very interesting. I wonder whether the land can be...Very interesting. I wonder whether the land can be used for agriculture after the radionuclides have been encapsulated by microorganisms. How tough is the 'slime' capsule? If the soil is exposed to sun, from tilling for example, does the capsule break down and release its contents? Is the 'slime' subject to attack from other organisms(in which case the encapsulation might only be temporary)?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251330546889158364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-48992449522229350152015-02-01T10:37:15.004-06:002015-02-01T10:37:15.004-06:00I think, for me at least, scientific inquiry and j...I think, for me at least, scientific inquiry and jargon notwithstanding, is that when we do "get out of the way" or at least take the passenger seat, the engine of nature seems to have answers that to some extent defy our current reasoning. I recall as a kid in San Diego my dad would go to Tijuana to place the races. On the way to the track, I would see all these small peasant holdings where maize and other crops were flourishing being watered by buckets of water. The farmers would use any organic refuse most often burnt in the field. They grew the most wonderful looking corn you can imagine with this "primitive" method without bagged amendments. The science is nice. But, maybe we shouldn't over think this and get on with it. Very nice article.Danny Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08239701610522812113noreply@blogger.com