Preparedness for when

pineapple

OK... For even more doom I tuned in half way through an interview with Martin Lewis where he was being asked about the financial crisis. He explained what would happen in the case of a 'financial reset' - a last resort measure. He said all debt would be wiped out - but all savings too. :eek: Great if you have a mortgage etc - not so great if you have been going without for years to pay off your home earler and definitely not good for anyone with savings

VJsmum

I think there would be a riot if they did that. But I can believe a haircut.

My money is going into bricks and mortar.

Butterfly_Brain

jk0 wrote: »

Fukushima is in the news again today:

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-11-08/we%E2%80%99re-most-dangerous-moment-cuban-missile-crisis

They are just preparing to remove the fuel rods from reactor 4. The other reactors are too radioactive to go near because the nuclear core has melted out the of the bottom, and there is no technology to retrieve them.

This with the prospect of further earthquakes, and further tidal waves!

Isn't it time the whole place was encased in an enormous concrete sarcophagus similar to Chernobyl, to protect it?

They are currently building a new sarcophagus for Chernobyl

http://rt.com/news/chernobyl-new-safe-confinement-773/

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I don't think you can guarantee a Nuclear anything is 100% safe no matter how meticulously the thing is built and maintained, no matter how up to date and modern it is in its construction and no matter how competent and fully trained are the people operating it. There is always the potential for accident and human error and events of nature like the Tsunami in Japan. I don't see however that there is a viable alternative to Nuclear Power if we all wish to live lives the way we do today with all the electrical generating capacity needed to exist in comfort in 2013. I have a feeling that Nucelar is here to stay at least as long as there is the need for the amount of power we use as a race, I may be wrong? but I don't see how else we could maintain our current lifestyle, Lyn xxx.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Whenever I think about nuclear power I think about Homer Simpson at the Springfield nuclear plant, then it all makes sense. Mrs LW, I totally agree there is nothing on the horizon that can replace that big oil-shaped space in our civilisation in the way that nuclear can. We can run a society off solar power and wind power but we'll be doing without a lot of modern energy dependent applicances (including cars) and I don't think people will aceept that any time soon. So in the slow crunch that is peak oil I think nuclear is here to stay. What I really can't understand, on a parochial level, is why we need the French and Chinese to build new nuclear facilities here, in the country where Rutherford split the atom :mad:
Anyway, added some wooly thermal leggings to the winter preps today, we may not have energy but at least we have sheep :rotfl:

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Just had hailstones and heavy rain (at the same time) here.

westcoastscot

Bob it's freezing here - heavy hail showers for days now, with longer outbreaks of heavy rain in between and really windy - the boat has been in early the past couple of days too. Winter's definitely here!!!

[Deleted User]

It's not freezing right now (was last night. Woke up to frost on the cars, and it was 35f/2c at 9am), and there's not much wind, but boy is it wet.

[Deleted User]

Ordered that solar charger I linked to the other day.

Also, a 4 pack of 2900mAh, Ni-Mh, AA rechargeable batteries.

Is 2900mAh the highest you can get, in AA rechargeables?

Also, a couple of Ni-Mh, rechargeable, PP3s.

pineapple

I've had 'a man in' today sorting out bits and pieces in the house. Girls don't you just hate it when there is a strange bloke hovering round the bathroom? I just couldn't bring myself to clamber past him to get to the little room and finally - when I just had to go - I found a private corner of the patio..... :eek:
So I can tell you it is definitely chilly round these parts!