Monday, November 25th, 2013
STOYAN SARG, PHD, - Foreign Policy Journal
Stephan: Here is the best assessment I have seen on the current status of LENR energy research.
What are the expected major advantages of the new energy of cold fusion? One, obtaining cheaper and small nuclear energy reactors; and, two, avoiding the hazardous radioactive waste. Achieving the first one without solving the second will be a problem. Presently, management of the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is quite expensive, but it is part of the maintenance and the problem is considered solved. At least, it appears to be solved because the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe is a result of bad waste management. The new energy reactors based on cold fusion may not be available for wider distribution if they produce any radioactive waste.
The tests of E-cat HT reactors of Andrea Rossi provided in Uppsala University, Sweden, (2012-2013), and the live test of Defkalion (DGT) Hyperion reactor broadcast on July 22-23, 2013, are reliable demonstrations that cold fusion energy is real. The fuel elements in both types of reactors are nickel and hydrogen, while the technical methods and reaction environments are different. The E-cat HT (high temperature) rector is distinguished from the previous E-cat device that a high temperature metal hydride is used instead of a hydrogen gas. The hydrogen from the metal hydride is […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2013
BRIAN BIENKOWSKI, - Scientific American
Stephan: Here is a major reason why we are facing the crisis of superbugs; the other being the grotesque over-use of pharmaceuticals in industrial animal husbandry. As with climate change it is greed of the few pitted against the wellness of the many. The misuse of our own technologies is destroying our world.
This problem exists because of thousands upon thousands of little thoughtless decisions. Never, ever, flush drugs down the toilet.
Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants.
That’s the finding of a new report by the International Joint Commission, a consortium of officials from the United States and Canada who study the Great Lakes.
The impact of most of these ‘chemicals of emerging concern
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Monday, November 25th, 2013
Stephan: Some good news. The Texas State Board of Education, despite the passionate commitment to willful ignorance expressed by the Creationists and anti-climate change forces on the board still chose to support science, not fantasies.
See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/texas-environmental-science-textbook_n_4326160.html
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Monday, November 25th, 2013
ROSEMARY MASON MB CHB FRCA, - Farm Wars
Stephan: Because industrial agriculture controls the agencies that are supposed to regulate it, we do precious little of the research that should be taking place regarding the industry's use of chemicals. The result, as usual, is wealth for the few and degraded wellness for the many.
For the full report see: http://farmwars.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Glyphosate-at-the-root-of-human-and-animal-diseases-further-evidence.pdf
Follow up letter from Rosemary Mason MB ChB FRCA to Sir Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland regarding Glyphosate and an increased incidence of both human and animal disease.
Dear Sir Harry,
Two months ago I wrote to you as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland about the epidemics of obesity, type 2 diabetes and autism that were reported in Scotland during the course of 2013. A reply does not seem to be forthcoming.
Glyphosate: Another Silent Killer
On 21st October I copied an email to you in which I addressed Prof Jonathan Jones and the BBC about their lack of knowledge about the actions of glyphosate on humans and animals.
Glyphosate Toxicity: Dr. Mason Challenges Scientists and BBC
After Samsel and Seneff published their paper: Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases[i], US mathematician and physicist Dr Nancy Swanson took crop and glyphosate data from the US Department of Agriculture and Disease Data from the US Centers for Disease Control. She found that thyroid cancer (incidence), liver cancer (incidence), diabetes, (prevalence and incidence), autism (prevalence), Alzheimer’s (deaths), Parkinson’s (deaths), Dementia (deaths), intestinal infection, inflammatory bowel disease and peritonitis were linked to the […]
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Sunday, November 24th, 2013
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG, US environment correspondent - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: A reader sent me this in response to the piece I ran yesterday on the five largest carbon polluters. It makes the point even stronger. Basically what this is telling us is that 90 corporations in the whole world are responsible for two-thirds of the climate change causing pollution. Think about that for a second: there are seven billion humans and to maintain the profits of a few thousand individuals, the entire planet must suffer.
One has to ask also, why is it I only find these stories in the non-U.S. press
The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests.
The companies range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon and BP – to state-owned and government-run firms.
The analysis, which was welcomed by the former vice-president Al Gore as a ‘crucial step forward’ found that the vast majority of the firms were in the business of producing oil, gas or coal, found the analysis, which has been published in the journal Climatic Change.
‘There are thousands of oil, gas and coal producers in the world,’ climate researcher and author Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in Colorado said. ‘But the decision makers, the CEOs, or the ministers of coal and oil if you narrow it down to just one person, they could all fit on a Greyhound bus or two.’
Half of the estimated emissions were produced just in the past 25 years – well past the date when governments and corporations became aware that rising greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and oil were causing dangerous climate change.
Many of […]
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