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And most of us know how this will eventually turn out.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant began construction in 1973. The plant's first reactor was completed in 1996, and it began operation.
Work on the second reactor paused in 1988, and only resumed in 2007.
That reactor is now complete — the first newly-operational Generation II reactor since the 1990s.
The new reactor has been granted an operational license, and it will soon begin fueling.
While the Gen II reactors aren't unsafe, they're much less safe than the Gen III AP1000s.
"Compared to a Westinghouse Gen II PWR, the AP1000 contains 50 percent fewer safety-related valves, 35 percent fewer pumps, 80 percent less safety-related piping, 85 percent less control cabling, and 45 percent less seismic building volume. ...
If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours."
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They are making a big deal about this.
But in light of all the military tunnels under the USA ( projects started in 1973 in CA) this California tunnel is nothing.
Here is one interesting article.
And here is another.
The proposed US$68B high speed rail project in California faces extraordinary hurdles, both in terms of budget and time frame. Even Einstein (no, not that one; Herbert Einstein, an MIT civil engineer and top tunneling expert) says the schedule is probably not possible. "Having looked at a number of these long tunnels, [the California] plan is aggressive," said Einstein, who has consulted on a 35-mile-long tunnel under the Swiss Alps. "From a civil engineering perspective it is very, very ambitious — to put it mildly."
New York's 11-mile East Side Access tunnel project is 14 years late and about 2.5x its original budget. If California's 72 miles of tunnels (twin tunnels of 36 miles) go like New York's, that would be over US$160B spent, with an opening date sometime in the 2030s. The article goes through a number of complicating factors for the tunnels, from the major faults they must cross to the melange of rock types they must drill through.
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A low frequency infra wave is sent into the ground, just a few watts worth via a directional beam antenna.
The strata layers vibrate at certain frequency's which those who are looking for oil deposits can decipher.
Rock,water,gas and oil all vibrate differently which makes it possible to accurately determine their presence.
The only problem with the technique is the ground resonates in a domino like effect causing various quakes in the earth.
Think of it in these super simple terms:
You know how dominio's can be stood on edge one after another to create a chain reaction.
What if each successive domino were slightly larger than the one before it until they were very large down the line.
The impact of the final domino would be very large in relation to the first domino.
Tesla knew about this and once said, "I could split the earth in two."
A small amount of energy upfront would build until it becomes intense.
You can bet the military has weaponized this technology.
Some believe that the New Zealand quakes were man initiated to persuade that government to come on board with the New World Order Agenda.
A Bloomberg article makes the case that the U.S. must consider the earthquake situation in Oklahoma a national security threat. The town of Cushing, OK is small — fewer than 10,000 people.
But enough oil is stored there at times to eclipse the entire U.S. daily usage.
"The oil in Cushing props up the $179 billion in West Texas Intermediate futures and options contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange."
In the wake of the September 11th attacks, government officials posted guards near the giant storage facilities; they're that important to the U.S. economy.
Unfortunately, the rising seismic activity in Oklahoma is putting those tanks at risk.
The article argues that if a terrorist attack would threaten national security, so must an equally devastating natural disaster.
This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade.
"Last month the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which oversees oil and gas, ordered wells within three miles to shut down entirely and those between three and six miles from the town to reduce their volume by 25 percent."
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Black absorbes heat from light waves and reflects very little light.
Now there is a black that is even blacker.
Researchers have created the least reflective material ever made, using as inspiration the scales on the all-white cyphochilus beetle. The result was an extremely tiny nanoparticle rod resting on an equally tiny nanoparticle sphere (30 nm diameter) which was able to absorb approximately 98 to 99 percent of the light in the spectrum between 400 and 1,400nm, which meant it was able to absorb approximately 26 percent more light than any other known material — and it does so from all angles and polarizations.
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