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How Do We Get The Future We Want


I never dreamt I'd experience a future with so much unrealized potential.

When I was young, in the 60's, in the Seattle area, if you were white, Capital Hill, which was essentially 90% black back then, was a place you didn't want to go because if you for example stopped at a red-light and there was a car in front of you four black men would break your windows, drag you out of your car, and beat the shit out of you just for fun.

I had a hard time understanding this when I was in 4th grade and earlier because we had some black kids in the neighborhood and they were like everyone else, we all got a long, played together, maybe got into some mischief together but it wasn't the destructive things people do today.

Then our shitty city decided that the schools weren't "mixed" enough so they bussed children from the South part of the city which were mostly black up to the North which were mostly white. I was fortunate to be able to stay into a school close to my home even though my friends were sent to schools in the south. The local blacks continued to behave as they always had, but those imported organized gangs and all sorts of fights ensued. I had one of these gangs jump me and start whaling on me and I fought back and even though I did not start this fight, I merely defended myself, I'm rewarded with a three day expulsion. I pointed out I didn't start the fight, they accused me of being racist, I pointed out I had black friends in the school, didn't matter I was racist.

It was pretty much this way through out junior high school (our school system was divided as elementary school grades kindigarden - 6th, Jr. High 7th through 9th, and high school 10th through 12th, though my Jr. High and High were across the street from each other and advanced students were allowed to go acrosss the street and take some of their high school classes early. There was some magical boundary crossing the street because in the high school, none of this racial stuff was happening.

At first, I did not understand why this was happening, but then I came to understand that in high school, instead of random forced bussing they had a different system to encourage racial mixing and that was the high schools each had what they called "magnet school" programs which means each school had unique programs that other schools didn't. Our high school had a radio station and electronics classes and an Olympic size swimming pool and students would come there to use one of those facilities or take part in a program those facilities provided, everyone in Seattle was permitted to choose high school that interested them, so even though we had a lot of black people there, and they weren't local, they were there by choice and that was the big difference.

So for me at least the puzzle for that situation had resolved, and by the time I was in high school the situation on capital hill was changing. The police started to actually police it, property values increased, the run down buildings were bulldozed and new homes and businesses were built and it became an area that was less racially polarized. When I try to understand why people mostly lived in peace there for a while, poverty used to be the norm when it was almost all black, now not so much. So I thought ok, probably economic conditions had a lot to do with it's previous situation, a lot of poor black people forced to live there because they didn't have the means to live in other places. When the economy improved those that remained did so by choice and were no longer living in poverty. It occurred to me that back in school, those blacks that were native to the local area also were not living in poverty because the neighborhood was one of reasonable affluence.

Biden added support for economic well being having a lot to do with us being able to get along, because after Biden got in office and ruined the local economy, Capital Hill has gone back to being a war zone. In fact it's worse than that now, it's the entire city.

There is someone up at the top that wants to destroy us, someone who wants to reduce our population, and wants those of us who remain to live in poverty. Covid vax has killed five people for every one person it's saved. This was obviously planned because they started developing the vax before the first hints of the lab grown disease was created and released into the public. They create a situation where there is a shortage of energy and food to cause massive deaths, and accelerated it with injected toxins. I don't know who all the players are, obviously Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Uval Harrari, Rockefuckers, Rottchilds, but who is at the head of this? I don't know, I'm sure Henry Kissinger was one of them also, but thankfully that bastard finally died.

We could have such a future ahead of us if we could eliminate the influence of these bastards. By creating these artificial scarcities, they cause us to fight each other over the remaining resources when we are not each other's enemy, THEY are our enemy. If not for them we could put our energy into creating a better future for ourselves, get fusion reactors working, get molten salt fission reactors working, continue improving space technology so we can mine resources from off the planet where there is no natural life to be hurt.

We need to identify our true enemy and stop fighting each other. Put an end to this bullshit and move on to achieve our destiny.

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Whenever a Life is Lost, ALL of us Lose.


We are in need of many material things, rich people think that the rest of us do not contribute and we are just worthless eaters. But if you look through history what have rich people contributed? Precious little. Because the majority of the world is not wealthy, the majority of important inventions come from the poor or middle class. They often become rich in the process, like Elon Musk, but they usually don't start off that way. The majority of the rich contribute nothing but schemes for self enrichment and power grabbing.

This is the problem with the thinking of the depopulation agenda folks like Ehrlich, Schwab, Harari, Gates, etc.

It is not just a matter of consuming and running out of natural resources, because no matter the rate, a given natural resource will run-out. It is more about man's ability to adapt and use new resources that are abundantly available. Even resources that are scarce are almost infinitely abundant, they are just difficult to get to because they are distributed very widely and sparingly like rare Earth's, or because they are buried deep within the Earth like precious metals because of gravitational separation, or because they are mixed with other things that take a lot of energy to separate, like water.

One invention could change all of that, a working hydrogen fusion reactor. And because the rate of improvement recently exceeds Moore's law, and because we are less than a factor of ten away from that is needed for commercial break-even, this is very near. But who might provide us the missing puzzle piece? Perhaps a child in Gaza that just got eliminated by an Israeli Bomb.

What I liked about Trump, instead of being like Biden and focusing on getting the biggest slice of the pie he could, he focused on making the pie bigger, and this is what we need to do. There is a huge universe out there and there does not appear to be a whole lot of competition for resources, and we are very close to being able to travel it, if we would just stop killing each other, fighting over existing resources, and instead focus on making the pie bigger.

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KOL


I don't know when this picture was taken but during the 60's and 70's when I was growing up, they are one of two local "top-40" stations, KJR being the other. KOL was located on Harbor Island, and their tower had large NEON KOL sign on the tower, while I was studying for my 1st class radio telephone operators license, I visited Bill Wolfenbarger there often. It was my opinion that KOL was what AM radio was about back in the day. Unfortunately as time went on the music stations drifted towards FM, and AM stations generally changed format. KOL was one of the last to abandon the "top-40" format, but when they did they went to country rather than talk radio and that format did not work, largely because we had another well established AM country station, KAYO, but KAYO died as a country format and went to a political talk radio format when an FM station went country. Anyway I love the way the old transmitter was constructed with all the glass so you could see everything. Back in those days, most AM stations were high level plate modulation, not electrically efficient but provided the best audio until Harris Gates came out with their pulse width modulation which produced the best of both worlds. CCA also had a modulation scheme which used a peak and carrier tube with the peak tube being phase modulated, such that it could either add to the carrier tube or subtract from it, depending upon the phase relation it introduced, but that phase component really created a lot of distortion resulting in not very clean audio.

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Too Fast


This happened about five or six years ago, before global warming got rid of all the snow, just kidding, it still snows here. At any rate this idiot was going too fast for conditions and decided to enter the post office by sneaking between the bus stop and tree and driving through a fence and over a six foot embankment to get to the post office parking lot. It's a lot easier to use the driveway but I guess this guy just liked the challenge. He wasn't quite up to it though, needed more speed or a heavier vehicle because he didn't quite clear the fence.

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SlimFast


This is SlimFast from the Church of Lazlo back when he was on KNDD 107.7. I took this photo at the Beach House studio just before Brian Aubert from SilverSun Pickups performed there. Really wished the corporation hadn't recalled Lazlo to their station in New Orleans, he had a hell of a show at KNDD, really good at audience involvement and had a good ear for local talent.

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Orbs - UFO Photos


These are all orbs that I've photographed many years ago. All the single orbs were either photographed while riding the Edmonds Ferry towards Stanwood, or on Sunset Beach near the Edmonds terminal of the Ferry, except for the photo with multiple orbs in it, that one was photographed from Juanita Beach, and it happens a commercial Jet flew through the clouds at nearly the same elevation minutes later, and because I recognized the airplane type I was able to lookup the fuselage diameter and then by counting pixels determine the size of the orbs, they are only 7-8 feet in diameter.

These were all looking North from the Edmonds ferry in Washington State, or from the Beach near the Edmonds terminal. They appeared to be over the Whidbey Island Naval Air Base or close.



This one was over the Juanita Beach at the North end of Lake Washington.

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Oni and Socrates


Oni and Socrates, 2nd and Third cat we had. Technically Oni was my daughter's cat, my mother-in-law had a feral cat give birth under her house. After the kittens were dug out we took one of them home, the Orange Tabby there, he was a hellion at first, hence the name Oni, basically demon in Japanese, but he rapidly socialized and ended up being quite a good cat. Socrates is the grey cat, We took him in after the neighbors across the street moved out abandoning their cat. After my first cat died, Fred, he got very pissy with me as if he blamed me for Fred's death so I gave him to my oldest son Carl, but he died from cancer a couple of years later.

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Uncensored Search: https://yacy.eskimo.com/


If you just want a search engine that is simple and returns you asked for not what the WEF fuckers WANT you to read, try: https;//yacy.eskimo.com/

On Bing or Google, typing in "Climate Hoax" brings you results about "Climate Denyers", but on Yacy, if you type in "Climate Hoax", you'll get stories like this one. We don't manipulate your results, we give you what you ask for!

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Yacy.Eskimo.Com


You won't find this story on Google, or Bing (bing means sick in Chinese), because they don't want you to know about their wealth transfer scam.

For a search engine that the WEF and Klaus Schwab don't control, see:THE UNCENSORED SEARCH ENGINE

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This is statistics for July 8th, 2023 through November 8th 2023 for King County.
I'm a pureblood, no Gates artificial RNA in my blood. You can see that we did better than the vaxed in terms of raw numbers. But then they "age adjust" them to show us doing worse. Just another example of lying with statistics.

Myself, I'm unvaxxed. I got Covid 19 in March of 2021, I tested positive for five days, symptoms lasted for seven and it was a fairly nasty cold for me with one day of upset stomach. My max fever was 100.7, I am 65, diabetic, and overweight.

My 40 year old son got vaxxed, has had covid five times now, one of those times had a fever hit 103.7, nearly had to be hospitalized. He is not diabetic or overweight.

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Godzilla -1


Went and saw Godzilla -1 tonight. hands down the best Godzilla ever. Unlike the others I've seen this one was in Japanese with English subtitles.

Unlike pretty much every other Godzilla movie I've seen this one had a good cohesive coherent story line.

The sets were excellent, really looked pretty authentic for the time as did most of the props, the effects were so good that save for Godzilla it was hard to tell what was effects and what was real. Godzilla looked extra gnarly in this one except for the lighted spikes, that was a bit hokey.

Music score was good, sound effects were good, really thundered. It was
like the old movies x 1000. I expected something special being the 70th anniversary of the original and they did not disappoint.

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I want to see the Killing end, but how can there be peace with a people who believe this?


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Our Government "HATES" it's people, they have been robbing the people since 1913 when they created the "PRIVATELY OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE" & the "IRS" extortion rackets to fleece the wealth from the nation, it's not federal nor does it have any reserves because it is criminal in nature and this group has stolen America right out from under the dimwit Americans and still is to this day.
It's very obvious who the people in this government caters to because it has the largest lobby group in DC with major bribery power and all of these people who serve, serve that group's interests which is destroying the nation from within and that makes them all traitors to this nation... PERIOD!

Not one of them are actually there to serve the American people and that is a fact and the general public is to dam stupid or damn ignorant to even recognize it for what it is, we're all gonna pay the price for apathy!

White collar crimes are far worse that street gang crimes or even mafia's, why? because these criminals have the nation behind them and will fight in their criminal wars and so on, your serving a criminal organization while thinking your not.

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Global Warming


In the average persons life they produce about 20,000 gallons or one tanker truck's worth of pee. Multiply that by seven billion people in the world and that's a whole lot of pee.

It would seem to me that the environmental impact of that much pee must be substantial. Probably worse than carbon dioxide which would explain why Klaus, Yuval and company are trying to snuff us all out.

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Cat Induced Nightmares


One of my cats, sometimes both, like to sleep with me. When they sleep next to me that is fine but the heavier of the two, a 14lb tomcat likes to climb upon my
back and sleep after I've gone to sleep. For some reason inevitably when he does
that it induces bad nightmares. I just had one in which an evil doctor was trying to inject me with chemical infusions and I'm all tied up on a bed and he's trying to stick needles in me attached to tubing attached to chemical pumps, and I'm all tangled up in the tubing and fighting the needles out of the doctors hands and trying to inject him.

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Great Barrington Declaration - Anti-Tyranny, Perhaps Consider Signing, At least Read.


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This is written by Alma Deutscher, It is a concert in honor of the victims of the attack in Israel October of this year.


She has been playing piano and violin since 3 years old, composed her first concert at 4, she is 16 or 17 year, was 12 in 2017. It reminds me a lot of Jean Sibelius's Valse Triste which was featured in the scene of a cat in a bombed out city remembering his former home in a bombed out apartment in the film Allegra Non-Troppo. It is a play on the Disney Movie Fantasia but also a beautiful bit of Art Work on it's own. It was for me a very sad and emotional scene in the film and I get the exact same emotional experience listening to this.

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Dream Invented a Trans-medium Machine


I dreamt I invented / flew / swam / road a trans-medium sports transportation device last night. I think this idea came from a youtube video in which they stated that hydrogen was not toxic to breath and could be used to make a breathable air mixture like helium oxygen albeit explosive.

Here's how it worked. You had an experimental plane tube like section. The prop was driven by a very trick single cylinder motor. The piston of the motor was a metal with a high strength and curie point and there was a head built out of alternating layers of metal that would conduct a magnetic field and one that wouldn't. (yea I know wear would be high) and behind it a coil of copper wire.

The cylinder moving would convey a magnetic field to the coil or vice versa. The motor would been entirely sealed with the head exposed outside with cooling fins but the exhaust and intake would go to valving that either went to source of air and fuel and exhaust or a sealed box. In the sealed mode the air intake would also seal.

This would allow the device to act as a gasoline motor/alternator in air mode and as an electric motor in underwater mode. The head would have a third solenoid operated valve so that in electric motor mode compression is relieved.

You'd have an advanced battery pack as well and some electronics that consisted of bridge rectifier charge regulator or alternately inverter. It would probably be lithium / sulfur chemistry because nothing else could provide the necessary density. The regulator would monitor charge state and force a surfacing if too low and shut down charging if too high or battery gets too hot.

The wings would be multiple fold-able design and shaped for maximum lift as this would not be intended as a high speed device owing to power and weight balance not being ideal. They would have tensioning cables arranged to unfold and tension them for flight operation. A largish rudder and vertical stabilizer along with power modulation and a vertical winglet attached to a front steering wheel would assist in directional flight control, ground steering, and directional control on the ground in conjunction with rear rudder.

To save weight the cockpit would not be enclosed and the front wheel and rear wheels would always be extended. There would be a hydrolyzer to provide an oxygen and hydrogen atmosphere for breathing under water.

Excess hydrogen not needed for the breathing mixture could be used to inflate a balloon for buoyancy. The rudder and vertical stabilizer could also be used for dive/surface and directional control.

I don't know if material engineering could even make this all practical, but it would be a cool stunt device for an escape or invasion device in a bond movie.

Anyway, I'm posting this hear firstly for entertainment, at least If found it interesting to fly / ride / submerse in the dream, and second, so it gets on the Fediverse and by extension on Wayback Machine so if anyone does do the engineering and tries to patent it, I can claim prior art, get the patent and license it to you.

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Maybe we could install automatic theft detectors that when they detect theft could turn themselves on, throw themselves in reverse, and actuate the accelerator. Eliminate crime at it's source!


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Guy is so lucky I'd love to work on a big cat preserve


in reply to Nanook

Is it not very naughty of cats not to protect the interests
of mice? Maybe it is naughty. It is certainly natural.
If, however, letter writing can stop the bad regulations,
could it not get some of the 194 states out of the WHO
altogether? Could it not perhaps abolish the WHO?
Suppose there were no WHO ... . Did not the obviously fake
pandemic get promulgated in nearly all states without
the WHO having any special powers?
Makes me think of red herrings.

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Ubuntu Snaps


Is there anyone who agrees with me that Ubuntu snap packages are doing no favor to Ubuntu or it's users?

My experience was that Firefox was a good stable browser until they changed
the package from *.deb to snap. Ever since that time I constantly get interrupted with pop-ups telling me to exit the browser now for updates and if that isn't bad enough it constantly freezes now while watching videos, writing
something, just regular use

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Found Dog Alert, Shoreline WA Region


Good Evening,

A LOST dog was brought into the clinic today. He has no collar/identification and no microchip.

He is a male neutered doodle-mix, likely over 5 years of age. If you recognize this dog, please let us know via email as we are closed for the weekend.

Cascade Pet Hospital
(206) 362-3668
14731 Aurora Ave N Shoreline, WA 98133
www.cascadepethospital.com

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Ariel School Alien Encounter involving 60+ children and some school staff.

I had heard of this before and I was also familiar with John Mack but I was not aware that John Mack had investigated this incident. I just saw a documentary that interviewed many of the children that were there that day but were now adult as well as some of the staff.

I'm less than a month from 65 now but when I was ten years old I had my own encounter, and the creatures I saw were different than these but I've never had any close encounters since. I've seen and photographed orbs but never seen any creatures that were associated.

My encounter seemed to have been to show me a technology that I did not understand at the time and still do not completely though I do understand that it had something to do with paramagnetic materials and arrangements, as if there was a whole technology that could be derived from them but not enough to know what practically can be done.

Anyway because of my encounter I've had a lifelong interest in the subject, they often seem to have a telepathic element and usually it's more elaborate than my own experience. In my own experience there was some communication of emotion telepathically bit not really of fact but these others often do involve factual elements.

In the Ariel school they communicated a somewhat non-specific environmental concern but it was communicated that our use of technology would only harm us.

The problem I have with this is that without technology we could not feed the people of this planet, and any being capable of interstellar travel would certainly know this. Asking us not to use technology seems akin to asking us to just die, and this is not something I'm willing to comply with. And the fact that the deep state seems to be asking or even telling us the same suggests perhaps that this message is not of terrestrial origin.

I wish I could communicate with this alien group so I could ask, just how do you expect us to survive without technology and clearly you are using technology, how do you justify saying to us do as we say not as we do? I would want to know their history and if they've gone through a similar ecological challenge and how did they get through it without extinguishing their own race?

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Stop Making Sense


Went and saw "Top Making Sense", the restoration 2023, and it was excellent. I've never been to a Talking Heads performance and I regret that now because I never realized the continuity of their music until you hear and watch them perform a lot of it back to back, and you hear the sense of continuity and kind of unbounded infinity of space and time.

The quality of the sound recording was also excellent, save for a handful of songs where the right side facing the drum set from audience's perspective, was not miked well, but otherwise over all excellent.

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Mastodon


I'm trying to bring up a Mastodon instance and running into this:

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile --trace
** Invoke assets:precompile (first_time)
** Invoke assets:environment (first_time)
** Execute assets:environment
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute assets:precompile
** Invoke webpacker:compile (first_time)
** Invoke webpacker:verify_install (first_time)
** Invoke webpacker:check_node (first_time)
** Execute webpacker:check_node
** Invoke webpacker:check_yarn (first_time)
** Execute webpacker:check_yarn
** Invoke webpacker:check_binstubs (first_time)
** Execute webpacker:check_binstubs
** Execute webpacker:verify_install
** Invoke environment
** Execute webpacker:compile
Compiling...
Compilation failed:
yarn run v1.22.19
info Visit yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.


warning You don't appear to have an internet connection. Try the --offline flag to use the cache for registry queries.
warning You don't appear to have an internet connection. Try the --offline flag to use the cache for registry queries.
error Command "webpack" not found.

I do have an Internet Connection, I also have plenty of RAM, 256GB with 512GB swap.

Any helpful hints appreciated.

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Modest Mouse and Pixies Fucked Over by Ticket Bastards and Climate Change Bullshit Arena in Seattle


False Advertising, Theft, 4th Amendment Violations, Shit Audio, Two Great Bands was it worth it?

Well, I won't do it again. Ticket Master advertised the tickets at $35 each, seemed like a pretty decent price but I actually paid $131 for two tickets by the time Ticket Bastards added all their bullshit fees. I was not informed in advanced that I'd be irradiated and just short of body cavity searched to get in. I DO NOT GO TO PLACES THAT VIOLATE MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS and ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY DO NOT INFORM ME IN ADVANCE, Hence I will not be going to another Ticket Master event nor other events at the Arena. I had a pocket knife which I use for my work, which I was going to be going to immediately after the concert stolen. Well actually extorted, either waste $131 in tickets OR give up a $47 knife. Now as for the audio. The speakers in the Arena are utterly incapable of any bass frequency below 100Hz, had at LEAST 20% harmonic distortion, had absolutely NO transient response on the lows, the highs were good if you sat in a location directly facing the stage, but if you were off to the side, nothing above 8Khz, though you could hear the higher frequencies delayed by about 1-1/2 second after it bounced off the rear of the auditorium. Unfortunately the hanging prison mattresses added to the ceiling during reconstruction didn't help that much. If they had spent a quarter of the amount they spent on LEDs it undoubtedly would have been a better experience, but what would have helped the most would be some semblance of respect and civility and basic honesty on the part of Ticket Bastards and the Arena security staff. I go to lots of events in Tacoma and NEVER get treated like this. Sad to see the city I was born in turn into such a piece of shit.

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Ball Lightning


This is one of the coolest ball lightning videos I've seen, especially it's interaction with electrified rails and with the power lines. Really would like to understand the physics of these things. It surely involves some very intense fields in order to create the arc to the power lines many feet away yet it doesn't arc to the ground and ground itself out.

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Anti-Nuclear Propoganda


It is my personal belief that nuclear fission is the ONLY chance the human race has of surviving and prospering up until the point where hydrogen fusion or some totally unknown at this time technology can provide us with reliable, abundant,
economical, and long term viable energy.

But after a number of nuclear accidents, even though the total number of deaths that have resulted are far lower than ANY other power source including all of the renewables, people are paranoid to the point where it's very difficult to license a new reactor and particularly it is difficult to license new safer and much more sustainable designs.

I want you to understand the bullshit that the anti-nuke people go through, first see this film:

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I want you to note here that after mentioning the legacy of nuclear waste from the Hanford program to make Plutonium from the bomb, he makes the statement that Washington has the highest per capital cancer rates in the nation, this is patently false.

See this chart below, (unfortunately, Friendica's composer will not allow me to inline the chart as I would like) and you will see that Washington State ranks 20th from the lowest to highest in terms of deaths per 100,000 due to cancer. In other words, we are not even average in cancer rates, we are BELOW average. See that Oregon, who gets it's drinking water from the Columbia, which is the contaminated river they are speaking about, has a similar rate. So right there, the very first premise of this film is ONE BIG FAT LIE.

Also notice some of the lowest areas of deaths by cancer on this chart, are the states were above ground nuclear testing was carried out, Nevada (16th lowest cancer deaths), Colorado (4th lowest cancer deaths), New Mexico (9th lowest cancer deaths), and Alaska (34th lowest cancer rates), of all of these only Alaska has cancer rates above the 50th percentile. Colorado is particularly interesting in that it has relatively high background radiation rates not because of the nuclear testing but because it's so high above the atmosphere that there is relatively little shielding of cosmic rays.

The states where the highest cancer rates are tend to be the farming states, so it would seem farming chemicals, probably in large part "round up", would seem to be a much higher contribution to cancer than nuclear waste.

And this is with today's rather poor from either a safety or waste production standpoint boiling water or pressurized water reactors, and the main thing that makes these reactors so dangerous is that they operate at pressures of around 300 atmospheres in order to raise the boiling point of water to around 600-700C because at lower temperatures the thermal efficiency is poor. And in terms of waste production usually these reactors are only 1 or 2 pass, use only the energy available in the U-235 isotope of uranium and recover less than 1/2 percent of the Uraniums energy potential, and this is precisely what makes the waste a problem.

A different type of reactor, a molten salt liquid fuel reactor addresses both the safety issues and the waste and proliferation issues. We should be building these in huge numbers because not only could they produce as much energy as we need to power the planet for more than 1000 years just using the waste from existing reactors, but they could extend the lifetime of existing resources to provide power for the next million years, even more if we extract uranium and or thorium from oceans. And at the same time they eliminate the the long term actinide waste, it just becomes additional fuel, leaving only short term fission products which return to the radioactivity level of the fuel that was initially mined in 300 year or less, and much of those isotopes have medical or industrial uses.

They are anti-proliferation because while they do produce plutonium PL-239 that in theory can be used in bombs, they also produce other isotopes of plutonium which are simply too hot to isolate from the PL-239 and which would cause the bomb to fizzle rather than to explode, that is to say you can't separate it economically by any of the classical methods, diffusion, distillation, centrifugation, thermal diffusion, exchange reactions, lasers, and electrolysis, because it's too hot to handle so it is just left in the reactor core to burn and produce energy.

Now the reason these reactors are so safe, 1) They do not operate at significant pressure, less than two atmospheres generally, just enough pressure to circulate the fuel through the primary coolant loop and heat exchanger, 2) the fission products are constantly removed so if the reactor is scrammed there is no residual source of heat, in a boiling water reactor, the fission products remain in the fuel rod and even if the chain reaction is stopped entirely they still provide enough heat to cause a melt down. 3) A meltdown can't occur because liquid state is the NORMAL state of the reactor. 4) The reactors are self regulating and self adjusting to load with NO mechanical devices. The liquid salt mixtures have a high expansion coefficient that moves the fissionable atoms away from each other as it heats up slowing the reaction, or brings them together as it cools off increasing the reaction and this happens with NO mechanical interventions. At Oak Ridge, they built and operated a test molten salt reactor, they pulled all the control rods so the reactor was going full-tilt, shut off the cooling, and allowed the reactor to run this way for 24 hours, no damage resulted. 5) If by some weird unforseen means the reactor DID actually overheat, it would just melt a melt plug and allow the liquid fuel to drain into a much larger drain tank that would separate the fuel far enough to stop the chain reaction entirely, and with little fission products, because they are continuously removed, there is so little residual heat that just normal radiative cooling of the tank to it's surroundings is sufficient for the fuel to cool down and solidify. 6) Because there is no water in the reactor tank, no hydrogen is produced so there is no potential for a chemical explosion like those that happened at Fukushima to disperse the radioactive elements. Further since only the actinides are in the reactor and the much more radioactive fission products are continuously removed, even if you have an explosion, for which there is neither a chemical nor nuclear basis, you wouldn't distribute these products across the nearby land. The absolute worst nuclear accident you can have is frankly a plumbing leak in which some of the fuel would spill upon the floor and solidify, and since it doesn't have fission products, it would not be intensely radioactive and easily scooped up and thrown back into the reactor tank.

So there are three very compelling reasons we should build these reactors, first, safety, they are safe based entirely on the principals of physics and need no safety equipment to activate to keep them that was, they are inherently safe. Second, they can burn the existing actinide waste for fuel, turning a million year waste disposal problem into a 300 year waste disposal problem so we aren't leaving a nuclear legacy to future generations, and third, they can eliminate the need for fossil fuels, and pull the entire planet out of poverty. We mustn't let stupidity as promoted by this film which is chucked full of lies and damned lies, to deny us this future.

While we currently have none of these reactors in the US, the Russians have been operating several for upwards of 50 years without incidence, and the Chinese, Indians, French, are experimenting with them. Japan has been experimenting with a similar but less safe design that uses molten sodium rather than salts, and the issues are two fold, one is that sodium is more corrosive than the salts although salts are somewhat corrosive, but water at 700C is very corrosive, and the other is that sodium is highly flammable and self ignites when it comes in contact with the air, and Japan did have a accident in their experimental reactor of this nature and had it shut down for repairs for some time as a result so for these reasons I do not favor these reactor types except given a choice between a boiling water reactor and these I'd prefer them, but molten salt is a much safer option.

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