If you follow me, all 6/7 of you, then you know I think a major catastrophe is upon us and the worst of it will begin this summer. You can think of it in banal terms as “global permafrost collapse”, but in reality that boring description hides a potential extinction level event. Best case scenario: we are heading towards Hot House Earth and large swaths of the planet will become uninhabitable very soon.
The PRC and its leadership have likely been aware of this for a long time, and IF the Covid/Vaccine campaigns were military psychological warfare then perhaps ONE of the purposes of this was to hide massive forced migration of Chinese citizens to climate safe zones in the deep south – S. America, New Zealand, Tasmania, Antarctica.
When I was a kid no one I knew in Western Washington needed air conditioning, ever. This may seem off topic, but as I was out walking today (in early May) I remarked at one of the more obvious cases of someone who had installed air conditioning and it seemed like it was on full power – Port Angeles, WA. This summer a lot of folks, especially in King and Pierce Counties, will be buying AC units, heat pumps, escape from the unrelenting heat.
Also, as a kid 5 decades ago, we were told we never had to worry about GREAT WHITE SHARKS in the Puget Sound, for three basic reasons: a) the orca pods would scare them away, b) the water is too cold and c) there’s plenty of food in the ocean for them or along the coasts. I’d say (a), (b), and (c), used to be true – none of those points are true now. The local orca pods are NOT doing great, the water is warming and FOOD in the wider ocean (see the story of the gray whales) is not the giant feast it used to be.
Add to this, the recent discovery of new sharks in the Puget Sound. Predators will avoid breaking boundary conditions of their habitats IF there is plenty of food. When the food runs low the predator has the choice of staying and dying OR going some place else. While cold water threatens great white sharks, WARM OR HOT water is just as bad for the great white – they like it warm, but not too warm. That’s the Puget Sound now, warm, not too warm, orca pods not doing so great, and plenty of food (for a creative predator).
This summer will be a barn burner, and the Western Washington beaches (like West Beach near Deception Pass) will be very popular.
I wonder if this will be the first summer a large shark attacks a swimmer or other human in the Puget Sound. Ghoulish? – yes. Exaggeration? – no.
Many START-UPs get issued choice insurance plans to cover many scenarios, to include events like this. I’d like to know the casino outcomes on this scenario … someone made money off of a fake startup. Or, they juiced it for the startup capital and left with a note saying “AI ate my homework”. We’ll see, looks crooked.
FUN FACT: decommissioned does not mean SAFE TO IGNORE … sorry if no one told you this.
SAFE REACTOR OPERATIONS NECESSARILY REQUIRE:
reliable supply chains
access to external power
diesel fuel for backup power generation
engineers showing up for work, ideally sober
ambient heat exchange, access to cool water that is predictable in its flow (for BWR type reactors and other types). Some kind of heat exchange is required for moderating the reactor in most cases, the advanced compressed CO2 cooling methods are years away from being ready for prime time.
If we’re entering a new climate regime, “Hot House Earth”? – then traditional heat exchange methods for nuclear reactors will fail. Try keeping a boiling water reactor under control when the EXTERNAL SOURCE water temperature >100F or there are changes in sea level and water flow (for river sources).
