Earthquake & tsunami hits Japan

[neeko]

Just how dangerous is Nuclear power relative to other sources of electricity?

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html

Cliff notes:

These are deaths per Terawatt hour.

Coal – world average               161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Coal – China                       278
Coal – USA                         15
Oil                                36  (36% of world energy)
Natural Gas                         4  (21% of world energy)
Biofuel/Biomass                    12
Peat                               12
Solar (rooftop)                     0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)
Wind                                0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)
Hydro                               0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)
Hydro - world including Banqiao)    1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)
Nuclear                             0.04 (5.9% of world energy)

[Royal Flush]

variance

[AndrewT]

Who the hell is dying from solar energy?

Are they counting guys who fall off the roofs of houses while installing the panels?

[rex008]

variance

It's a very good point. It's like winning the main event, very rare and unlikely, but massive when it happens.

It's very hard to attribute deaths to nuclear power in any case, as witnessed by the guesses from various sources on Chernobyl. That's quoted at somewhere between 36 and 300,000.

Who the hell is dying from solar energy?

Are they counting guys who fall off the roofs of houses while installing the panels?

Reading the article, yes, it sounds like that's exactly what they're counting!

[kinboshi]

18,000 dead and the official figure is set to rise.

[thetank]

"What the Japanese people have suffered already is bad enough, but now natural disaster has collided with man made hazard. If they can't cool the reactors at Fukushima, they face full scale nuclear meltdown. The worst may still be to come.

...

I'm not a nuclear scientist, I'm a fashion designer. I don't pretend to be an expert but as a human being and global citizen I'm terrified for the future of this planet for our children, in fact for all life on earth, if we continue on this nuclear path."

Katherine Hamnett on this week's 'This Week'

If all your big pairs have held up recently and you require some tilting, you can catch it on the i-player for a few more days. Starts about 7 minutes in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/zn1cm/

[kinboshi]

[kinboshi]

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/25-other-energy-disasters-from-the-last-year/72814/

[vthiji10]

What sort of warning would they have had?

Is it litetrally just hours?

[tikay]

Stumbled upon a fresh bunch of photographs on "Time Magazine", many of which I'd not seen before.

As time passes since the event, looking back, it seems less & less probable, more & more improbable, almost like a dream.

The international news Media have moved on, to Libya, probably no bad thing.

Can you imagine the huge list of momentous decisions the Japanese Cabinet have to face daily, dozens of decisions any one of which would be a major thing in itself.

I can't help but increasingly admire the stoicism of everyone out there, the locals, the communities, the people, the Country, in the face of such overwhelming tragedy.

It gets worse the more time passes, or it seems to.

Anyway, here's the photos I came upon.......(there are 78 of them)

PS - pardon the snappy link. See "Most Popular", right hand side.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/53375259.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DIWSAsset%26k%3D2%26d%3DE41C9FE5C4AA0A14B5769D13BE66928D23DDDA563F4EB7BC4FAB8288309FB2B5B01E70F2B3269972&imgrefurl=http://www.life.com/image/53375259&usg=__1zNIIReWk4Fkk4i1r4gp4Pwgwp0=&h=594&w=497&sz=62&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=xf9WN50rTZhCeM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspringtime%2Bin%2BEngland%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=AbSJTd6kCcuXhQeArajFDQ

[neeko]

Amazing pics of how Japan has rebuilt a road that was destroyed by the earthquate.

http://www.businessinsider.com/incredible-before-and-after-photos-show-how-fast-japan-is-rebuilding-2011-3

[outragous76]

I'm not being disparaging, but that road is quite clearing "being repaired", the photo is just taken from further back

obv they are doing a great job it getting up and running so quickly, but bad/sensational media reporting get on my tits

[neeko]

who cares if they have not managed to finish it in 72 hours in the UK we would have a 3 year planning enquiry first

[Linux]

Good docu

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/japans-tsunami-how-it-happened/4od#3175951

[kinboshi]

Good docu

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/japans-tsunami-how-it-happened/4od#3175951

Amazing stuff.  Frightening.