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Monday, May 16, 2011

Source of Electricity: Nuclear, Natural Gas, Shale, Fracking, Unocal, Water, & War @nprnews @planetmoney @ezraklein @collapsenet, #collapse

This NPR article ignores the war in Eurasia for natural gas, the war in Iraq for oil, the poisonous side affects of fracking, the amount of time it takes for nuclear power to come online, the cost of waste disposal for nuclear, the WATER cost of fracking, etc....

The WAR in Afghanistan is all about increasing our presence in Eurasia as Unocal builds a pipeline from the Caspian sea through Afghanistan, through Pakistan (expect more ware there) through to the Arabian Sea.

Clipped from www.npr.org

Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables

Protesters ride their bikes and hold flags reading

Engineers probing the ruined nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant are finding yet more damage. Not only did fuel melt in three reactors, they've just discovered a hole in one reactor vessel. And radioactive water continues to leak at the site. That mess in Fukushima has led several governments to reassess nuclear power.

Read more at www.npr.org