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Japan's nuclear crisis and the 2011 earthquake tsunami: Let's cool the political meltdown. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine →
That’s how we deal with tragedies in the oil business. Accidents happen. People die. Pollution spreads. We don’t abandon oil. We study what went wrong, try to fix it, and move on.
Contrast this with the panic over Japan’s reactors. For 40 years, they’ve quietly done their work. Three days ago, they were hit almost simultaneously by Japan’s worst earthquake and one of its worst tsunamis. Not one reactor container has failed. The only employee who has died at a Japanese nuclear facility since the quake was killed by a crane. Despite this, voices are rising in Europe and the United States to abandon nuclear power. Industry analysts predict that the Japan scare, like Chernobyl, will freeze plant construction.
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Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a world-killing event - by Terrence Aym - Helium →
Seems pretty far-fetched but at least we’ll either be dead or past it in six months.
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"Organic" pesticides aren't necessarily "green" pesticides →
When the data was converted into the environmental impact on a field use basis (pounds needed per acre), the organic pesticides did not fare so well. The mineral oil had by far the largest environmental impact factor, a whopping 280.2 rating; the next most damaging pesticide only garnered a 12.5 environmental impact factor. The fungus did better, but still ranked fourth out of six in terms of least environmental impact.
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The Oil Drum | Deepwater Oil Spill - A Longer Term Problem, Personnel - and Open Thread 2 →
So what we had was BP running out of 50,000 barrels of mud in a very short period of time. An amount far and above what they deemed necessary to kill the well. Shutting down pumping 16 hours before telling anyone, including the president. We were never really given a clear reason why “Top Kill” failed, just that it couldn’t overcome the well.
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