Sunday 20 September 2009

You blog, I glob.

                                                            My Blog.

     This, if you are a fast typist like me, can turn itno my glob, my bolog, my blog.  it just depends on the wind speed.  Thank heavens for spell check.
     However, spellcheck  approves wholeheartedly of glob..... Not a crinkly red line or suggested alternative spelling anywhere.
     I have this horrible feeling that one day the earth could come to an unitneted  end because someone spelled no go as on go.
     So let's do our best to cut down the chances.
      "But you are probably the worst typist in the world." I hear you say.
     "Right on, but who's the next worse?..."
And the fact is that solar power, wind power, wave power are an awful lot more people proof than nuclear power.

     "O.K." you say...."but there's global warming."
And I say
     "If you take the carbon footprint of nuclear power from the time you start mining the uranium to getting it (and don't forget dealing with waste and decommissioning afterwards) and look up the facts, you could be surprised.  (Hint: Wind, solar, tidal and wave might come out better.)  Also, don't forget that the more uranium is mined, the less there is left, the harder it is to find and the more energy it takes...(Hint: this one was mentioned by the Oxford Research Group.).
     (Big hint: "The energy cliff")
     ( Massive hint: Go to page 17 of their pdf
SECURE ENERGY? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming, written in 2007.)
     
     Did you? Bit of a mind blower, isn't it?

     So here's looking at Solar.         -0^0-       (shades)

     A new generation of solar voltaic panels are on the way, cheaper, more energy efficient and easy to produce on a large scale. 
     In April I got this information from No 2 Nuclear power:
     "The U.S.Department of Energy, for example, reckons that by 2015 solar voltaic will be economically competitive -so that any new reactors ordered will be economically obsolete before they are even open..."
     And maybe you say "The U.S.A. have a lot more sunshine than we do." And maybe I say:

     "The creation of quantum dots which can be squeezed so that they absorb energy from a wide range of wavelengths, not just when we can see the sun is shining, mean that large scale solar voltaics don't just have to be used in sunny countries."
     This is like being a size 18 and being able to get into a size 14 and looking good in it!  Amazing!
     You can look it up in Wikipedia.


      More facts in later blogs...
     
     And if it's heavy being back at school, or college, if you're a student, stick in there kids.
     When I was at my second school,  the mother of my then boyfriend said  that although it seems like it's going on for ever at the time, in fact it's only a small bit of your life, and she was right.
     

Dendelion, posted on Sunday, 20th September.