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1. resumer (resumer@quitter.no)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2016 12:22:40 UTC resumer

   • Power Engineering International
   Good news Tuesday: "A planned restart of Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest, could be off the table after Sunday's surprise election of an anti-nuclear governor in Niigata prefecture. [...] Commentators called Yoneyama’s election a significant setback for the government’s energy strategy, which includes restarting many of the nation’s reactors after implementing stringent safety upgrades in order to bring nuclear power generation to 20-22 per cent by 2030. Shares in the plant’s operator Tepco fell by 8 per cent in response to the news." via @peiio [@rse clear case of people ain't stupid] https://quitter.no/url/640101
   • resumer (resumer@quitter.no)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2016 14:46:28 UTC resumer

     • romina
     @xj9 The obvious implications of your comment are: 1. there is a hierarchy of energy sources that qualifies nuclear as 'our best option' above fossil (source?) 2. ... of which the latter I did not even promote although that is what you are implying 3. that our rate of consumption is left out of the scope of the solution to the problem and is considered, hence, a growing variable or a constant at best 4. the usual narrowing down the argument on 'our energy' in order to leave out effects of 'our radiation pollution' and 'our security-political side effects' of nuclear fuels. What you call 'our dependency' is nothing else but another word for a recent 20th century type of life style (as so eloquently put by Marlon B. here https://quitter.no/url/640454) which may, historically, dwarf compared to more immediate and factual dependencies on clean and particularly non-ionising soil, water and air. All that being my humble and likely uneducated opinion. https://quitter.no/url/640455