Radiation fears: Update

March 17, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

I made a few entries at facebook:

Walter H. Schneider Radiation jumped significantly from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Tuesday during a fire near reactor No. 4, but dropped quickly after the fire was extinguished.  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/20110316-japan-quake-radiation.html

Walter H. Schneider There is evidence of a lot of irrational fear of the radiation that is emanated by the Japanese nuclear power plants. In a nutshell, those fears are largely baseless, but don’t take my word for it. Go straight to what the experts have to say, and what they say is not hard to understand.

Introduction to Radiation Health Effects and Radiation Status at Fukushima | MIT NSE Nuclear Science and Engineering

Radiation is energy that propagates through matter or space. Radiation energy can be electromagnetic or particulate. Radiation is usually classified into non-ionizing (visible light, TV, radio wave) and ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation has the ability to knock electrons off of atoms, changing its chemical properties….

For anyone whose life is presently dominated and controlled by fears of radiation, and that includes all governments who issue orders for their staff to evacuate Japan, you should not let yourself be ruled by irrational fears and superstitions fueled by sensationalist media hype. Go instead to the experts: http://mitnse.com/

–Walter

Posted in Propaganda debunked, Alternative Energy Sources, Explosions & Fires | Print | No Comments »

Alberta Government: Resistance to powerlines is futile!

March 15, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

From facebook:

Lorne Gunter

The Alberta government is passing bills to make it harder for landowners to resist powerlines being built across their property or to go to court to get compensation. It’s a shameful attack on property rights that threatens the freedom of all Albertans.

Bill an attack on everyone’s freedom

www2.canada.com

The online source for Edmonton news, business, sports, entertainment, classified ads, horoscopes, weather, local news and more.

Posted in Civil Rights, Energy Issues, Community & Industry | Print | No Comments »

Radiationphobia and hysterics

March 15, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Do you fear serious health problems due to being exposed to radiation from the Japanese nuclear plants?

You are not alone.  There is now a run on potassium-iodate in the land of the fearful and many pharmacies have run out of it.  What is that hysteria all about?

There is little to fear.  The situation in Japan is a far cry from being as harmful as other nuclear accidents were, and the dangers from those, too, were blown out of all proportions.  Here is a very informative account of that:

From the Summer 2010 Issue
of 21st Century of Science and Technology

Observations on Chernobyl after 25 Years of Radiophobia
Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.

The worst possible nuclear plant accident produced no scientifically confirmed fatalities in the general population. But there was enormous political and psychological damage, mainly the result of belief in the lie that any amount of radiation is bad.

Here is another item that will do much to allay hysterics, specifically with respect to the nuclear energy plant in Fukushima, that presently and increasingly raise fears of nuclear-energy-induced radiation impacts to heights that have not been seen since the tidal wave of fear about the consequences of the Chernobyl incident was set into motion.

Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors. | Morgsatlarge – blogorific.

There exists a copy of this post on Barry Brooks excellent blog, where you can still use the discussion function: http://bravenewclimate.com

Last but not least, see this:

MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub

Information about the incident at the Fukushima Nuclear Plants in Japan hosted by http://web.mit.edu/nse/ :: Maintained by the students of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT

It is extremely difficult not to become influenced by the fear mongering promulgated by the media. The sad reality is that “The News” are vehicles by which to bring advertising to the people.  One must make a deliberate effort to avoid becoming influenced by the media.  After all, their primary purpose for existence is to influence people and thereby to make a profit.  The media employ professionals schooled and trained in influencing people, all for the sake of profit.

The best news of all to accomplish that with are bad news, better yet, alarming news, and, if the news are not bad enough to achieve that with, then news that have been invented or have been made alarming when they were not and should not have been presented as alarming news in the first place will do better than all others.  “Dog bites man” is not news, “Man bites dog!!” is.

Randolph Hurst was someone who had the reputation of being ruthless in inventing and presenting alarming news for boosting the circulation of his newspapers.  I believe that it was he who once said: “There is no such thing as bad News,” meaning that, for the purpose of increasing circulation, the more alarming the news are, the better, because the greater the circulation numbers, the larger the advertising revenues.

Newspapers derive the vast majority of their revenues from advertising.  The prices charged for copies of their newspapers pay for nothing more than just the paper they are printed on and perhaps putting them into circulation.  The reporting, the editorializing, the writing, the composing, the typesetting, the wages and salaries of their staff, and all of the capital and operating expenses of newspapers are paid through advertising revenues.

Of course, very similar considerations apply to other branches of the media, such as broadcasting.

Increasing the circulation (or the size of a listening or viewing audience) increases the advertising revenues.

I believe that the recognition of that reality is one of the most important things any activists should engage themselves in.

There is an enormous media bias regarding feminism and men’s issues.  I admired many of the human rights activists whom I met throughout my life for being fully aware of that.

Now get this.  That bias in the media is not driven by an evil conspiracy.  It is driven by greed for media profits.  It just so happens that some ideological opportunists exploit the greed of the media for their own purposes.

That happens not only with respect to vilifying men and fathers for the purpose of creating and enlarging a rift between the sexes and to aid the systematic deconstruction of the traditional nuclear family.  The same principle creates opportunities for other fanatical ideologists or pain alarmists such as those who wish to promote their agenda for world domination or perhaps nothing more than their greed for power and wealth by creating unfounded fears about specific environmental issues.

One little aspect of the manufacturing of fears for profit is the creation and intensification of fears regarding nuclear energy.  Accidents such as those at Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima are god-sends for environmental-alarmism opportunists and carpetbaggers.

__________
Note: Dr. Jaworowski’s report on radiophobia may seem at first to be difficult reading, but get into it and become fascinated.

By understanding what Dr. Jaworowski stated about radiophobia and in reading his explanation of how it was created and exploited in connection with Chernobyl you may be making the most important contribution you could ever have imagined to becoming enlightened in your career as a human rights activist.

There is no shame in being duped once…

Posted in Alarmist Insanity, Propaganda debunked, Health issues, Alternative Energy Sources, Pollution: Health Issues, Explosions & Fires, Emission Incidents & Issues | Print | No Comments »

The wind-power scam

March 6, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Daily Mail
28th February 2011

Why the £250bn wind power industry could be the greatest scam of our age - and here are the three ‘lies’ that prove it

By Christopher Booker

1. The first is the pretence that turbines are anything other than ludicrously inefficient.
2. The second great lie about wind power is the pretence that it is not a preposterously expensive way to produce electricity. No one would dream of building wind turbines unless they were guaranteed a huge government subsidy.
3. The third great lie is that this industry is somehow making a vital contribution to ’saving the planet’ by cutting our emissions of CO2 - it is not.

(Read more)

Posted in Propaganda debunked, Alternative Energy Sources | Print | No Comments »

Wind Turbine Syndrome

March 5, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to John Droz, an interesting read from Wind Turbine Syndrome News:

“Infrasound: The hidden annoyance of Industrial Wind Turbines” (France)

—Professor Claude Renard (retired)
Naval College & Military School of the Fleet (France)

Posted in Health issues, Alternative Energy Sources | Print | No Comments »

Availability of electric power “blowing in the wind”

March 5, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Walter H. Schneider

‎”The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end, the head of the power network said yesterday.”
You can see the whole article if signing on for free 1-day trial subscription and searching for “electricity” after clicking on the link for the article.

Telegraph e-paper

dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect.com

Walter H. Schneider Oops, should have stated that the power network of concern is that of the U.K. and that the routine and frequent outages are to be expected because of the vagaries of the weather. In other words, the availability of electric power in the U.K. is blowing in the wind.

Let there be no mistake that what is being shoved down people’s throat is nothing less than a planned, deliberate downgrading of living standards in the U.K. to make them comparable to those in under-developed nations.  Only in under-developed nations is it to be expected that the availability of electric power is unreliable, at best.We had that sort of standard in Germany, after WWII, when electric power and city gas were routinely available only for about a couple of hours a day, at noon and at around 6 pm.In the U.K. now, the lowering of the standard of service for electric power is the result of a deliberate policy to increase wind-power generation, rather than to use thermal power plants with their constant, reliable availability of generating capacity.

Only in the U.K., far from here and not a problem where we live, you think?  Well, think again!

You have not been paying attention:  Have you not seen ENMAX’s full page ads in the local papers?  Related ads by ENMAX have been shown on the local TV channels.  I have even been inundated with those ads when using google.  Have a look and see what those ads show!

“Welcome to the age of the low-carbon diet” my foot!  Only someone who wishes to have his standard of living lowered to that of an under-developed nation would welcome such a diet.  To promote such a thing and even have it supported and enforced through taxpayer-funded subsidies and government policies is insanity at its worst.

This insane policy is not only being promoted by ENMAX.  All of the energy industry is in cahoots on this, and our governments are happy to help them along with that.  You wonder what is in it for the governments?

It is a fallacy to believe the hype that wind power is cheap.  The truth is that it is very expensive, in addition to making the power grid unstable and unreliable.  The more we try to increase wind power generating capacity, the more will the costs of electricity to the consumers go through the roof.  Increased electricity costs will bring increased tax revenues for the governments.  We are being fleeced!  Any consumer who buys into this wind power insanity is having the wool pulled over his eyes, to boot.

Last Tuesday was a very cold day, and the total wind power generated on that day in Alberta was between one and two Mega Watt, between one and two one-hundreds of one percent of the total electric power generated in Alberta.

Yesterday, around supper time, wind-power generated in Alberta was ZERO Watt.  You can check at any time what it is.  That web page is updated every two minutes.  Right now, Mar 05, 2011 09:44, it tells me that 31MW of wind-power are being generated.  That amounts to four tenth of one percent of all electric power being generated in Alberta, while 572MW or 6.5 per cent of the total consumption in Alberta are being imported from B.C. and Saskatchewan.

Posted in Propaganda debunked, Alarmist Insanity, Alternative Energy Sources | Print | No Comments »

Now on facebook

March 5, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

A little more than two years ago (about Nov. 2008) I joined facebook.

Until a few days ago I did not make much use of it.  Facebook felt uncomfortable because, once anything is posted there, it often seems impossible to make corrections.  What bothers me most about using the features of facebook is that it is not always obvious how something that one enters there will be displayed and that, if things turn out differently than expected, corrections or required edits cannot be made anymore to change something into a more appealing presentation.

Well, so what?  I will just have to learn to think things through a bit more before I post them; perhaps not quite like putting one’s brain into gear before putting the mouth into motion but maybe — to put it more aptly — to learn by trial and error.

A few days ago one of my daughters convinced me that faccebook is a practical tool for staying in touch.  After a few days of making more use of facebook and exploring its features, I must say that she is right.

I should have made more use of facebook much sooner.   Now I want to try and figure out if it is practical to show facebook items as links in a blog entry.  Here goes:

Walter H. Schneider

‎”The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end, the head of the power network said yesterday.”
You can see the whole article if signing on for free 1-day trial subscription and searching for “electricity” after clicking on the link for the article.

Telegraph e-paper

dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect.com

Walter H. Schneider Oops, should have stated that the power network of concern is that of the U.K. and that the routine and frequent outages are to be expected because of the vagaries of the weather. In other words, the availability of electric power in the U.K. is blowing in the wind.

And here is another one:

 Walter H. Schneider recommends a link.

 Miss. mom charged after son’s body found in oven

www.foxnews.com

A Mississippi mother was arrested Wednesday in the death of her 3-year-old son after authorities said they found the child’s burned body in an oven. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said…

Posted in Tips and Notes | Print | No Comments »

CO2 has nothing to do with it

March 4, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Global warming trends are not coupled to atmospheric CO2.

Check this:

ICECAP
Mar 02, 2011

“Scientists” Pull a Snow Job on Reporters in Teleconference
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow

The article states, amongst many other interesting facts,

….Many questions still remain to be answered, but these changes in ocean circulation may be important keys for understanding the observed loss of Arctic sea ice.”

CO2 has nothing at all to do with it. Cold open arctic waters serve as a major sink of CO2 just as the warm tropical waters serve as a source.  Roger Pielke Sr. suggests the ocean heat content (OHC) as a more robust measure of temperature trends. Models suggest OHC should be rising rapidly as the greenhouse gases build, especially in the tropics. Here is the buoy based OHC in the top 300 meters of the equatorial from NOAA (between 5 degrees north and south of the equator) Pacific from 130 E to 80W. During El Niños, the eastern half is warm and the west cool, in La Niñas the eastern half is cool and the western warm. The fact there is not net warming, instead actually a slight cooling of the entire belt may the most damning proof that global warming is nothing more than a government funded political campaign.

Read the whole article at http://www.icecap.us/.

Posted in Propaganda debunked, Climate Change | Print | No Comments »

Wind-power generation on a cold day in Alberta

March 1, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

It is cold today.  In central Alberta, at Elk Island National Park, the source of the “local” official temperature values that are being shown for the communities of Andrew, Lamont, Chipman, Mundare and Bruderheim, the temperature reading at 9 a.m. was -39°C.  At the same time, 14km away from Elk Island Park, our thermometer in our backyard in Bruderheim showed -28.5°C.

The winds were slight, about 1-2 kmh.

It will stay cold for some time. It will also most likely snow a bit within the next few days.

There will not be much wind, which is a bad thing for those who have the illusion that wind power is a good thing and that it will be available when they need it most.

(Click on image to see source.  That web page is being updated every two minutes.)

That means that, although of the total Alberta generating capacity a full 5.8% is supposed to be derived from wind turbines, at 11:20 am only 0.022%  or 2.2 hundredth of one percent were being generated from wind power.

The reality of wind power is that a lot of power stations right now are working all-out to produce the increased power required due to the extremely cold weather and are being fueled by natural gas at peak prices, probably at a cost of about $0.07kWh, which means that the cost to consumers will be in the order of about $0.20 to $0.70kWh right now.  Yes, regardless of what rate you pay for what you use right now, the cost of a kWh is around $0.20 to $0.70 right at this moment, and that cost needs to be paid.

So how cold is it in all honesty where you live?  You still have to look up the thermometer in your back yard to get the correct answer for that.  Our thermometer says it is -28.5°C right now (at 9 a.m.) in Bruderheim, not -38°C, and that is a reading that is taken at some distance from the walls of our house, as those readings would be a bit “warmer” yet. as they would reflect more heat radiated by the house.

Many people watch the news to catch up on the weather forecast, or they check the Weather Channel on TV.  Few people take advantage of another feature that is available on the Internet, which feature will tell you everything you wish to know about the weather, without having to have it read to you by someone whose job it is to read it to you so that they can use that as a means to show you a bunch of commercials.

If you are happy with knowing the forecast trend (and historical weather trends many years into the past) at a level of accuracy that the pilots using the Edmonton Municipal Airport rely on, then here is a link to weather information at a glance, without commercials, a link you want to bookmark:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+forecast+Edmonton

The source of the information upon which the information at that link is based is the Edmonton Municipal Airport.

And by the way, is it getting warmer, as Al Gore and David Suzuki are threatening?  Not on your life:

In the mean-time, the makers of wind turbines, such as General Electric, Siemens and anyone else who is reaping copious profits from the climate craze are laughing all the way to the bank — and we pay.

Posted in Climate Craziness, Propaganda debunked, Corruption & Fraud, Alternative Energy Sources, Community & Industry | Print | 1 Comment »