At last... reason and science seems to be winning... What about the media?

The debate on global warming is "warming"... Read this article in the wall street journal, "The Climate Change Climate Change"

• In the Czech Republic 11% of the population believes humans play a role
• New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program
• Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers
• Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief.
• Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history.
• Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion.
• A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)
• The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02.

Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software

Namibie, producteur d'uranium

Article intéressant sur la production de l'uranium dans cette région du monde.

L'industrie nucléaire qui construit des usines de dessalement d'eau pour les mines, aurait intérêts à fournir de l'eau potable aux habitants vivant près des mines. Elle pourrait aussi participer au développement local et améliorer les conditions de vie des habitants.

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Medvedev visits Namibia with eye on uranium

Uranium deposits in Namibia's deserts, which could make the country a top producer of the nuclear fuel, are drawing growing foreign interest, seen in this week's visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The first-ever visit by a Kremlin chief on Wednesday and Thursday is expected to include a delegation of hundreds, with an emphasis on reviving cooperation in uranium mining and energy production.

"The whole energy issue will be discussed," Namibia's charge d'affaires in Moscow told AFP.

Russia has shown interest in Namibia since 2007. An exploration license was awarded to a joint venture led by Tekhsabexport, a Russian state firm that sells uranium. Moscow offered Namibia its controversial technology for floating nuclear plants.

"Nothing has happened" since then, said Robin Sherbourne, group economist for South Africa's Nedbank in Windhoek. "We'll see what happens this time."

Such projects are spreading across this southern African country, which aims to benefit from renewed global interest in nuclear power with its large uranium deposits, which are currently mined at only two locations.

The main mine, Rossing, runs five kilometres (three miles) long and 350 metres (1,100 feet) deep -- but was threatened with closure in 2003 when prices for uranium oxide plunged to nearly nothing as the global supply was inflated by enriched nuclear fuel from the former Soviet Union.

But fears of climate change have revived the search for carbon-neutral energy, sending uranium prices back up.

More than 40 reactors are being built in 11 countries, notably in Russia. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expects that at least 70 nuclear power stations will be built around the world in the next 15 years, doubling the global supply of nuclear energy.

Rossing -- majority owned by Australian giant Rio with a 68.6 percent stake, but with a 15 percent stake held by Iran, 10 percent by South Africa, and three percent by Namibia -- announced a 112 million dollar expansion in 2006.

The same year, Australia's Paladin Energy re-opened the Langer Heinrich mine, also located near the Atlantic coast.

That has propelled Namibia to the top ranks of global producers, behind only Canada, Kazakhstan and Australia, with output 4,366 tonnes of uranium oxide -- representing 10 percent of the world's production.

And the industry's growth is just beginning. The government awarded three licenses last year, and the French group Areva in 2007 bought the Namibian firm holding exploration Trekkopje, where production is expected to begin by year end.

"Namibia could increase its production to 42 million pounds (a four-fold increase) within five years, which could make us Number 1," Sherbourne said.

To achieve that, Namibia first must tackle two major obstacles.

The desert has no water needed to control the dust and radiation from the mines. Areva has built a desalination plant on the Atlantic coast, which could eventually meet the growing needs.

The country also lacks enough energy. Namibia already imports half of its electricity from South Africa, which is suffering an energy crisis itself.

Windhoek is considering new coal or gas-fired plants, and has floated the idea of building a nuclear plant by 2018.

Old technologies that becomes "new" because of the greens...

I don't understand why, we work on old, non-efficient technologies when we have better ones at less cost... This article talks about some new contract Lockheed Martin is getting involved in. I suspect it is to please the "greens" and their lobbies.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6543901.ece

Its scientists are working on a plan to harness the difference in temperature between the surface of the sea and the ocean depths to generate electricity.

The concept predates even Lockheed’s involvement. French physicist Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval came up with a plan to tap the ocean’s energy in the late 1800s, and a small plant was built in Cuba before the second world war.

The basic idea is simple. Warm water at the surface of the ocean is used to heat a liquid with a low boiling point, such as ammonia. The evaporating ammonia gas drives a turbine, generating electricity, and is then cooled back to a liquid by very cold water pumped up from the depths of the ocean. Other versions of the plant include desalination as part of the process, making fresh water as a byproduct.

To generate significant amounts of electricity, large volumes of water need to be moved. A full-scale plant, which is Lockheed’s goal, would use a wide pipe descending several hundred metres into the ocean - a significant engineering challenge that the company thinks it might be able to meet by exploiting the kind of advanced composites it uses on military aircraft.

Lockheed is going ahead with the ocean research under a contract it was awarded last year by the Department of Defense.

Lockheed is going ahead with the ocean research under a contract it was awarded last year by the Department of Defense.

Chris Kubasik, executive vice-president electronic systems at Lockheed, said the electricity produced would be fairly expensive. “Depending on the size of the plant, we are looking at about 25 cents to 30 cents per kilowatt hour, which is maybe double what you would pay in the continental US. But somewhere like Hawaii, where they rely on imported fossil fuels to generate power, they are already paying more than 50 cents.”

My comment on the Times articles.

Very nice...Lets spend billions on R&D on unproven technologies that will provide electricity at 25 cents to 30 cents per KWh when we have proven, efficient nuclear power stations that can produce the same KWh for 5 times less. Al the crazy things we do for indulgences and "green" lobbies.

Le rôle des banques, quel est-il exactement?

J'ai trouvé intéressant ce passage à l'écoute du film "the international"

The banks, their objective isn't to control conflicts in the world, it's to control de debt that the conflict produces. You see the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. This is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, wheather we be nation or individuals slaves to debt.

Ce passage, bien que tiré d'un film de fiction, m'a rappeller qu'il est intéressant de faire le lien avec ce passage et le fait que la dette du canada a bondit dans les années 70.Source

Écouter ce petit vidéo pour comprendre le pouvoir des banques.

Nouvelle de l'Iran - 17 juin 2009

Est-ce que les élections ont été truqué?

The man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry – the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third – was killed in a suspicious car accident, according to unconfirmed reports, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran.

Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran’s interior ministry, was killed yesterday in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked results that showed the elections were rigged by government use of new software to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19 million votes, and should therefore be president. We will try to get more details later.

Le mémo coulé, dit que 42 millions de votes ont été exprimés

1. Mousavi: 19,075,623 votes
2. Mehdi Karroubi: 13,387,104 votes
3. Ahmadinejad: 5,698,417
4. Mohsen Rezaee: 3,754,218

Source, Real News Network

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