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Sellafield/Windscale refs: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article885555.ece https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sellafield Auntie Google is your friend. Now, the Wikipedia article is a Wikipedia article; a starting point for research rather than an endpoint. But there's plenty of history there, and I expect someone who wanted to spend...
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"I'm arguing the way I am because I don't want to see, in my own lifetime, the start of a catastrophe which will claim tens of millions of human lives." Authoritarians always talk about protecting people. Always. The war? It's...
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Thank you for the information on German green initiatives. I agree with you, pretty much down the line. Deployment in the developing world is an issue, scaling up is an issue. The risks are huge. And yet matters cannot continue...
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On climate change denialism, collapsing: A few years back as part of the attack on climate science (and in particular the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph) Senator Joe Barton commission an assessment of the work of Michael Mann and others from...
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Sorry--I didn't realize (probably forgot) you kept a late schedule. Houses over 75 years old are often less trouble energy-wise than the ones built post-1950, at least in the USA, whose builders (designers is often the wrong term, kraw) assumed...
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"You are, I fear, selectively cynical. Checking sources and reading the original papers is the only way to getting at the truth, because the mighty and powerful have no monopoly on lying. [...] People selling new and marginal products (like...
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This is something of a test; I've tried signing in with my Google account. I hope the blog now lets me post links. Rocky Mountain Institute, Reinventing Fire Amory Lovins, RMI founder, Reinventing Fire, Berkeley Lab Distinguished Lecture Series (two...

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Charlie Stross commented on Radioactive turd, meet punchbowl
So were all those air and army bases for the US mostly turned back into farm land? Pretty much, yes. They certainly weren't turned into cities. A bunch of the heavy bomber bases nearest to cities got turned into municipal airports, or things like the Scottish Museum of Flight at East Fortune that need a runway. The army bases, however ......
Charlie Stross commented on Radioactive turd, meet punchbowl
I have a couple of LED lights around the flat -- IKEA sell a really nice directional gooseneck reading lamp (with a clip for a base). It may be rated at 5 watts but it's capable of lighting up quite a large room, or focusing to bring a book page up to daylight levels. But I reckon it'll be a few years yet before it's time to start swapping out the CFL bulbs for LEDs. We're still at the soak-the-early-adopters stage of the development and deployment cycle. (Like CFL bulbs inthe mid-1980s.) Given the design life of LEDs, I suspect...
Moderator Alan commented on Radioactive turd, meet punchbowl
In England, Silverstone Circuit is an old airfield. Actually, on occasion, it is still a major airfield - it claims a world record of 4200 aircraft movements between dawn and dusk on one day. That's a landing or takeoff every few seconds....
Moderator Alan commented on Radioactive turd, meet punchbowl
That being the day I do not attempt to visit my mother. Whose address is [number redacted] Graham Hill, Silverstone, Northants. On the topic of reclaimed airfields, there was a US 355th Fighter Group airfield near us, between the villages of Littlington and Steeple Morden. The only sign today is some Nissen huts being used for agricultural storage, and a memorial at the gate on the road. If you look at it with Google Maps, you can see where the main ~4000' runway 4/22 must have run....
errolwi commented on Radioactive turd, meet punchbowl
An 'I told you so' post from an Aussie aviation journalist. http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2011/05/24/some-plain-talking-about-nuclear-lies/...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
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Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
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