If you happen to see a nice shiny blue Epomis beetle then run like hell … _ _ That is one seriously brutal beetle and it’s a damned messy eater as well.
Reactor one in relatively unbuggered condition! With the MSM having the attention span of a 3 year old high on fizzy drinks, it is hardly surprising that Fukushima related news has disappeared from our view. Unfortunately, the real story seems to be taking a turn for the downright buggered as Japan confirms [...] Scribbling back in March on the “green deal” plan to create more jobs than there are people to fill them (or something similarly deluded), I suggested that those jobs would not last very long at all without some form of compulsion : Not a very long lived green economy in my view but [...] I thought I was surprised when watching this one but the following video from Infectious Greed shows a surreal scene as the tsunami struck the Sendai airport turning a dry runway into a rather bizarre transportation related version of the Generation Game conveyor belt (cuddly toy, fondue set, helicopter, light aircraft …) : [...] From NHK, pity the poor buggers doing their best to prevent further calamity at the crippled nuclear plants in Japan : Plant radiation monitor says levels immeasurable A radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers there are exposed to immeasurable levels of radiation. The monitor told NHK that no [...] Being one of the filthy smoker underclass in the UK, I was amused to find out that Estonian cigarettes are far less dangerous than their UK equivalents or at least you would think so from the health warnings on the packets : The translation being “Smoking may kill”. Somewhat different I think you [...] Spotted over at Watts Up With That, the following video shows what happens when the brake fails on a large wind turbine during a gale : _ Who said these things were useless? I would class that as quality entertainment with additional marks for the gunshot like sound when the blades finally slap [...] Having left the emerging springtime UK last Friday, arriving in Estonia was much like travelling back in time three months to mid-winter all over again. Being English, the weather tends to come up as a topic of conversation and it is interesting to hear people talking of how long and hard this winter has [...] As I am off to Estonia tomorrow, the following Telegraph article is quite timely : The Department for Transport is carrying out research to see whether the existing use of traffic lights around the clock is justified. One council, Portsmouth, has applied to the DfT, volunteering to carry out the trials on behalf of [...] What have we got so far? Japanese nuclear reactors shut down automatically when the earthquake hit the country but the electrical system failed after being swamped by a 10m sea surge which lead to a loss of coolant/coolant scenario. The residual decay heat generated in the fuel rods raised the pressure in the uncooled [...] An interesting one from ZeroHedge in which Tepco finally admits that the (seemingly) alarmist news reporting about the situation in Japan is actually not too far from the truth : TEPCO Director Weeps After Disclosing Truth About Fukushima Disaster … TEPCO managing director Akio Komori who was openly weeping as he leaves a [...] Something of a Piracy theme today it would seem with the following BBC article suggesting to me that our government is completely missing the point (as always) when it comes to the security of our energy supply : Somali pirates could create a “huge catastrophe” by disrupting the UK’s energy supply, former head of [...] One from BBC News that possibly goes beyond the call of science : Bigger bottoms are definitely better – for swans at least. Scientists at the UK’s Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust are measuring the size of Bewick’s swans’ behinds, to see if they have the fat reserves to survive their long migration to Arctic [...] Spotted over at Not a Sheep‘s place, ABC News Australia has some amazing before and after photographs showing just how devastating the Tsunami damage around Japan’s Northern coast actually is. The link to ABC News above has several images – hover your mouse above each image to move the divider left and right to [...] The video below showing what appears to be a rather large detonation at one of Japan’s crippled Nuclear Plants. At 0:47 seconds into the video you can clearly see a shock wave coming off the building as something gives way – I just hope that it wasn’t the containment vessel letting go otherwise they [...]  |
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