just seen this morning same info on C span,
the same problem europeans debated for decades. france. germany. belgium.
and others. what to do with the waste. why not to shut the nuclear power
plants. Germany just decided that.Completely...
remember three miles island and tchernobyl. Europeans have no oil, so they
developped first nuclear, now also alternative energy power sources. heat
pumps, solar energy development. the oil companies are the leaders in such
research, imagine exxon on that theme : what do they say ? ( france's
Total-Elf Aquitaine is now a world class producer of solar chips...)
and they learned to use less energy. no air conditioning everywhere. no
overheated public spaces in malls. better insulation in housing . no
wooded houses. small cars. Volkswagen,Citroen Renault, Fiat, and the most
succesfull: the Mini- Cooper ( english clear minded Alex Issigonis , thanks
for the transverse front engine, the mac pherson shock absorber/pivot
wheel,a.s.o.)
The US just followed Europe in small car design, and they still don't
like/use such, as the Beetle, too small when crashing a SUV, probably...
waste,waste,waste , everywhere...
but ?
> From: bc <human@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
>
> Research and Special Programs Administration
>
> [RSPA-2002-11270, Notice No. 02-4]
>
> Advisory Notice; Enhancing the Security of Hazardous Materials in
> Transportation
>
> AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), DOT.
>
> ACTION: Advisory notice.
>
> [there are many ironies in the deadwood and tumbleweeds
> blowing around these vacated lands and township industries.
> yet, another coincidence being that the recent Yucca Mountain
> nuke-waste depository is on the west coast (arizona) and most
> of the 350 or so (450?) nuclear plants in the USA are on the
> _west_coast, meaning that the rail and highway systems are
> how the waste will be transferred, traffic jams and derailments
> not withstanding. thus, there is a context for such a government
> study or advisory notice, and it is not hard to imagine that the
> security of such (may it be said, inane in many ways) planning
> will backfire as security becomes the traffic jam, and as more
> and more security at high-profile events showcase how little is
> learned from terrorizing people, ordinaray people not at the big
> events. instead, the security in its overt placation of aggressive
> unearthing of bad-ones, leaves a wide-open gaping-hole into the
> everyday terrors, those roads and lack of mass transit systems
> which leave people to fend for themselves, against themselves,
> as the security clampdown of the homeland continues on and on.
> maybe if some New Urbanists hopped on the terrorism bandwagon
> there would be some 'smart growth' planning so that nuclear and
> dirty-bomb by default waste travels through bedroom communities,
> to make the case, by the economic politicale, that it's Bad Design.
> plus, the US President okay'd the Yucca Mountain site today, and
> if security of the homeland is the issue, it is secondary to bluff,
> and to short-term solutions with unfettered business as usual,
> which is truly terrorizing in terms of homeland defense of the
> ordinary citizens, in turn causing terrors on the homeland that
> are constructed by a lack of ethical and courageous leadership
> to bring the public (and private) society in a better direction.]
the same problem europeans debated for decades. france. germany. belgium.
and others. what to do with the waste. why not to shut the nuclear power
plants. Germany just decided that.Completely...
remember three miles island and tchernobyl. Europeans have no oil, so they
developped first nuclear, now also alternative energy power sources. heat
pumps, solar energy development. the oil companies are the leaders in such
research, imagine exxon on that theme : what do they say ? ( france's
Total-Elf Aquitaine is now a world class producer of solar chips...)
and they learned to use less energy. no air conditioning everywhere. no
overheated public spaces in malls. better insulation in housing . no
wooded houses. small cars. Volkswagen,Citroen Renault, Fiat, and the most
succesfull: the Mini- Cooper ( english clear minded Alex Issigonis , thanks
for the transverse front engine, the mac pherson shock absorber/pivot
wheel,a.s.o.)
The US just followed Europe in small car design, and they still don't
like/use such, as the Beetle, too small when crashing a SUV, probably...
waste,waste,waste , everywhere...
but ?
> From: bc <human@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
>
> Research and Special Programs Administration
>
> [RSPA-2002-11270, Notice No. 02-4]
>
> Advisory Notice; Enhancing the Security of Hazardous Materials in
> Transportation
>
> AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), DOT.
>
> ACTION: Advisory notice.
>
> [there are many ironies in the deadwood and tumbleweeds
> blowing around these vacated lands and township industries.
> yet, another coincidence being that the recent Yucca Mountain
> nuke-waste depository is on the west coast (arizona) and most
> of the 350 or so (450?) nuclear plants in the USA are on the
> _west_coast, meaning that the rail and highway systems are
> how the waste will be transferred, traffic jams and derailments
> not withstanding. thus, there is a context for such a government
> study or advisory notice, and it is not hard to imagine that the
> security of such (may it be said, inane in many ways) planning
> will backfire as security becomes the traffic jam, and as more
> and more security at high-profile events showcase how little is
> learned from terrorizing people, ordinaray people not at the big
> events. instead, the security in its overt placation of aggressive
> unearthing of bad-ones, leaves a wide-open gaping-hole into the
> everyday terrors, those roads and lack of mass transit systems
> which leave people to fend for themselves, against themselves,
> as the security clampdown of the homeland continues on and on.
> maybe if some New Urbanists hopped on the terrorism bandwagon
> there would be some 'smart growth' planning so that nuclear and
> dirty-bomb by default waste travels through bedroom communities,
> to make the case, by the economic politicale, that it's Bad Design.
> plus, the US President okay'd the Yucca Mountain site today, and
> if security of the homeland is the issue, it is secondary to bluff,
> and to short-term solutions with unfettered business as usual,
> which is truly terrorizing in terms of homeland defense of the
> ordinary citizens, in turn causing terrors on the homeland that
> are constructed by a lack of ethical and courageous leadership
> to bring the public (and private) society in a better direction.]