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KennethSchustereit The Old Bolillo! - KennethSchustereit's Blog - Victoria Advocate http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit I suspect I'll be writing about just a little bit of everything. I've been writing for more than 25 years. Here, however, I have noticed things are different. In a letter to the editor whenever someone rebutted a letter I wrote I'd do a line-by-line rebuttal and almost 100% of the time that was sufficient to silence anyone. Now I've noticed all the novices out there who mis-quote, take liberties with their paraphrasing and just down-right say you said things you can prove you never did! Blows my mind! You can clearly correct someone quoting them ver batim, introduce documentation to back your point, give credible references for where you got the information and they still want to argue! I say again; Blows my mind! I suspect I'll be writing about just a little bit of everything. I've been writing for more than 25 years. Here, however, I have noticed things are different. In a letter to the editor whenever someone rebutted a letter I wrote I'd do a line-by-line rebuttal and almost 100% of the time that was sufficient to silence anyone. Now I've noticed all the novices out there who mis-quote, take liberties with their paraphrasing and just down-right say you said things you can prove you never did! Blows my mind! You can clearly correct someone quoting them ver batim, introduce documentation to back your point, give credible references for where you got the information and they still want to argue! I say again; Blows my mind! en-us Global Warming debunked by environmentalists? How can this be? http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8555 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8555 <div><font face="Verdana" size="7"> <p align="center">Global Warming:</p> </font><font face="Verdana" size="5"> <p align="center">A common sense look at nonsense!</p> <p> </p> <p>According to a <a href="http://www.scienceclarified.com/"><u><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff" size="5">www.ScienceClarified.com</font></u></a><font face="Verdana" size="5"> informative article on alternative energy, “Controlled nuclear fusion is believed by many scientists to be the ultimate solution to the world’s energy problems.”</font> </p> <p>However, many have opposed nuclear energy because of the relatively miniscule amount of radioactive waste the process produces. This in spite of the fact that, “Energy Secretary Samuel Bodeman, in a November 9, 2007, letter to National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Ciccerone, said many nations with nuclear energy technology are committed to moving forward with used fuel processing.” At a recent meeting of sixteen nations, “It was evident that a growing international consensus exists that supports urgently moving forward to develop the political and technical framework for closing the nuclear fuel cycle,” Bodeman said.</p> <p>Now, let us sit back and realize that in spite of the bright prospects of recycling spent nuclear fuel, the fact that nuclear energy produces no (that’s ZERO) greenhouse gasses and the fact that new Generation III nuclear reactors are safer, more efficient and use less uranium fuel, extremist environmentalists still viciously attack nuclear power!</p> <p>This is what leads me into this expose’ on global warming! Everywhere I look today I see the interestingly errant science of global warming preached almost like it’s a religion! Those scientists and researchers who have dared step out of the crowd of lemmings have been labeled paid agents of ExxonMobile. </p> <p>According to an April 4, 2008 article by NPR staff writer, Richard Harris (definitely NOT a paid agent of ExxonMobile), entitled <em>The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat, </em>“…80 to 90% of global warming involves heating of the ocean’s waters.”</p> <p>According to Harris’ article, “Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all in the past four or five years.”</p> <p>Is this correct? A major tenet on which the theory of global warming is based has been challenged by, not ExxonMobile or their paid off scientists, but by a decidedly sold out promoter of global warming! And admitted to, on a decidedly sold out on global warming media venue: NPR! How can this be?</p> <p>Harris went on to quote Josh Willis of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (as far as I recall NASA is not a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobile), NASA has been studying the instrument findings. “The Argo System robotic buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.” Hmmm! “…no warming of the global oceans!” <em><u>All 3,000 instruments gave the same basic readings! </u>(A deduction on my part since anomalous readings would have prompted a different article altogether.)</em></p> <p>Willis said, “Sea level rises when the oceans get warm because water expands. <u>So with the oceans not warming,</u> you would expect to see less sea level rise. Instead the sea level has risen about ½ inch in the last four years.” Indeed, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “the average sea level rise between 1961 and 2003 was only 0.007 of 1 inch!” Hmmm! I don’t think we’ll be taking a gondola to the top of the Empire State Building any time soon at that rate!</p> <p>“But in fact,” Willis said, “there’s a little bit of a mystery. We can’t account for all the sea level increase we’ve seen over the last four years. One possibility is that the sea has, in fact, warmed and expanded and scientists are somehow misinterpreting the data from the diving buoys. But if the aquatic buoys are telling the right story that raises a new question: Where is the extra heat going?”</p> <p>So the oceans are expanding and have risen ½ inch but 3,000 scientific instruments say the oceans are not warming!</p> <p>So Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (again, definitely not a paid subsidiary of ExxonMobile) says <strong><em><u>it’s probably going back out into space.” </u></em></strong> <p> </p> </p> <p>Ah, excuse me! Pardon me! Time out, please! “…going back out into space?” Let me see, the global warming promoters have been telling us for years about our “carbon footprint” and that man is causing a layer of carbon dioxide to form trapping heat and causing everything from pimples to palpitations and now we are told by the same bunch, when they come up missing the actual heat, that it’s escaping out into space? Pardon my incredulity but something smells here!</p> <p>Let’s back up here just a moment. Weren’t we told that chlorofluorocarbons were eating away at the ozone layer allowing in harmful radiation? If the “hole in the ozone layer” is allowing in radiation would it not allow heat radiation to escape? And then what about this new thick layer of carbon dioxide holding heat in? Can someone please talk out of only one side of his mouth at a time?</p> <p>Were not entire new state bureaucracies brought into existence to regulate the air conditioning and refrigeration industry at a cost of billions of added costs to the taxpayer and consumers? All predicated on the idea that two heavier than air gasses can magically travel miles into the ozone layer and destroy it?</p> <p>Trenberth said, “The earth has a number of natural thermostats, including clouds which can either trap heat and turn up the temperature, or reflect sunlight and help cool the planet.” Oops! Another conundrum? If the ice caps are melting from global warming caused by the oceans warming caused by carbon emissions, then we are missing not only some heat but a lot of water too! Since water evaporates and becomes clouds, according to the polar ice melt the world should be covered by a thick layer of clouds cooling the earth!</p> <p>Harris concluded his interesting and unintentional debunking of the global warming myth by adding, “Tenberth and Willis agree that a few mild years have no effect on the long-term trend of global warming.” Is it just me or does anyone else’s mind get in a serious twist trying to understand these two?</p> <p>What’s scary is that these are the same type of people foaming at the mouth in opposition to nuclear power! </p> <p>Ilan Lipper and Jon Stone of the University of Michigan (Not a subsidiary of ExxonMobile) and co-authors of “<em>Nuclear Energy and Society” </em>In addition to the economic benefits achieved through the use of nuclear energy there are environmental benefits as well.” I guess so! There are no particulate releases into the air and for those still clinging to the man made global warming myth there are, as mentioned previously, no greenhouse gasses emitted for nuclear reactors! In fact, according to Lipper and Stone, “America’s nuclear energy plants reduce electric utility emissions of greenhouse gasses by 20 percent, or 128 trillion tons per year.”</p> <p>“More than 400 nuclear power plants are operating in 25 countries around the world today, supplying about 17 percent of the world’s electricity, said Lipper and Stone. 400 around the world and the only deaths ever recorded were in Chernobyl where the Russians built a graphite tube reactor (graphite burns at high temperature) in a tin building! Lipper and Stone reveal that, “About 83 new nuclear reactors are being built around the world.” But no! The fixated extremists in the United States would rather have energy rationing and a lead-acid battery closet for their solar panels and wind mills!</p> </font></div> Water Research Group Meeting Monday http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8547 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8547 <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Water Research Group will meet Monday at 7PM at the Victoria Electric Coop. The meeting promises to be very colorful with lots of revelations concerning water projects that threaten Victoria's water resources.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On the agenda:</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Looking into the new HDR Engineering report for the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project. Discussion of the Region N proposal to add a groundwater component to the Mary Rhodes pipeline. Uranium mining in Victoria County. The Tri-County flooding study and discussion on the upcoming legislative session. Tim Andruss of our Groundwater District will answer some questions concerning their efforts to create a management plan and rules. A discussion of the proposed GBRA pipeline from the Exelon Reservoir to Coleto Creek and new TxDot strategies to promote the TransTexas Corridor..</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A vote of the membership will be taken as to whether to hold a late fall meeting concernd with the Exelon Nuclear Project.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Materials will be available at the meeting to oppose the TransTexas Corridor and uranium mining in Victoria.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No funds collected at the meeting will ever be used to promote or oppose the Exelon Nuclear Project.</font></p> Uranium testing. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8511 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8511 <p>You can have your water tested for uranium isotopes for $86.00 with the state. Here is the testing protocol.<a title="blocked::http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/lab/mrs_en_test_water.htm" href="http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/lab/mrs_en_test_water.htm">http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/lab/mrs_en_test_water.htm</a></p> <p>It would be wise to have your well tested to prove historical water quality. Then file that information with your important papers AFTER you've copied it and sent a copy to your attorney and the Victoria County Groundwater Conservation District!</p> <p>An added precaution would be to place a legals ad in the classifieds giving the location of your property and state that your water has been tested and historical quality verified.</p> Hmmm! The thing the public isn't told! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8505 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8505 <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><strong>From:</strong> <a title="kenneths@awesomenet.net" href="mailto:kenneths@awesomenet.net">kenneth schustereit</a> </div> <div><strong>To:</strong> <a title="rray@sanmarcosrecord.com" href="mailto:rray@sanmarcosrecord.com"><font color="#810081">rray@sanmarcosrecord.com</font></a> </div> <div><strong>Cc:</strong> <a title="alandis@sanmarcosrecord.com" href="mailto:alandis@sanmarcosrecord.com">alandis@sanmarcosrecord.com</a> ; <a title="gregharman@gmail.com" href="mailto:gregharman@gmail.com">Greg Harman</a> ; <a title="tbower@express-news.net" href="mailto:tbower@express-news.net">Tom Bower</a> ; <a title="tbozick@VICAD.COM" href="mailto:tbozick@VICAD.COM">Tara Bozick</a> </div> <div><strong>Sent:</strong> Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:06 PM</div> <div><strong>Subject:</strong> Questions</div> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><font face="Verdana">Mr. Ray,</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">I read with interest your paper's piece on the Texas Water Atlas. I'd like to have one.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">I do have some questions however, if you don't mind.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Are you aware that Canyon Reservoir has been contaminated with mercury? Are you aware that this same water flows down stream and is joined by the sewer effluent of five cities and one school?</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Did you know that this water is then joined by the contents of polluted process water dumped by Invista/DuPont via a TCEQ permit?</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Are you aware that GBRA plans to mix this swill with brackish groundwater from Calhoun County and pipe it to San Marcos and Boerne via a 60 inch pipeline called the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project? </font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Are you aware that GBRA has been planning this since prior to last session and never told Calhoun County officials they were planning two groundwater well fields there?</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Are you aware that I mailed copies of that TCEQ permit to members of the Boerne and San Marcos Chambers of Commerce 18 months ago and never got a reply?</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Betcha $10 the answer to most of these questions is "No!"</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Kenneth </font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">361 578 4436</font></div> Karen Hadden, please go home! Revised and revisited! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8431 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8431 <p>Karen Hadden, the professional environmental extremist seems not to be happy with anything! Environmentalists from Austin and San Antonio have been warning for years that development in the Hill Country and I-35 Corridor past that area's natrual resource carrying capacity will cause more runoff and flooding in the Lower Basin!</p> <p>Yet some of these same environmentally minded folks are saying there isn't enough water for the Exelon Project! As I write this plans are drawn for yet another development in Guadalupe County to develop the last pristine property in the county! Ok, Karen! Which is it? Make up your mind!</p> <p>For many years, ever since Jane Fonda played the daring reporter in <em>"China Syndrome</em>" enviro-nuts have whined about safer production of power. So now comes the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor which is not only safer but uses less uranium fuel to produce electricity and yup...you guessed it! It's still not enough!</p> <p>Go home, Karen! Find something useful and productive to do with your life! For a change! Oh, and thanks for all the help you DIDN'T give helping to stop the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project! Guess it wasn't high profile enough! </p> The importance of Gore-bal Warming! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8439 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8439 <p><font size="4">Irene Sendler, a lovely and courageous woman was one of the most dedicated and active workers in aiding Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Her courage enabled not only the survival of 2,500 Jewish Children but also the generations of their descendants.</font></p> <p><font size="4">Ms. Sendler would go into the Jewish getto and bring out babies and children hidden in boxes. Her dog was trained to bark noisily to cover up their crying whenever German soldiers got near. She would take the children to monestaries and convents. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize but it was given instead to Al Gore for his loony book on Global Warming!</font></p> <p><font size="3">Thank to Life and Family Advocates for this insightful look into the global warming saga! Al must be proud!</font></p> Solutions to Lower Basin flooding! It doesn't take a PhD! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8345 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8345 <div> <p>A <em>Dallas Morning News </em>investigation found that suburban sprawl has encroached on hundreds of dams in Texas that were once in remote locations – including dozens in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. </p> <p>Urbanization upstream from dams increases the amount of runoff after an extremely heavy rainfall. Some dams may not be able to handle the volume, and that may pose a greater risk to life and property in neighborhoods downstream.    </p> <p>Ok, did everyone read that correctly? Now please consider this:</p> <p>When Tommy Hill told those meeting in Victoria that the last study of the flooding problem was halted because the Corps stopped funding it, GBRA had a $47 million plus budget surplus!</p> <p>While GBRA was running a full page ad in the Canyon Lake newspaper advising that residents there needed to conserve water, Bill West was in Boerne telling developers there not to let a lack of water slow down development! This is true! Ask Bob Wickman of Canyon Lake!</p> <p>Understand that GBRA <u>WANTS</u> to study river flooding! In 20 years, if left up to GBRA, they will still be looking for other people's money to study flooding in the Lower Basin! They know what the problem is, they just don't want anything done about it!</p> <p>The more runoff in the Hill Country caused by paving over the recharge zones, the more flooding in the Lower Basin and the more water GBRA can sell! The more water backed up on private property in the Lower Basin, the lower the parts per million of pollution in the water!</p> <p>During the flood of 2002 both sides of the spillway at Canyon Dam were breached! I saw the photos on the news! Now consider please how many homes, sidewalks, streets, ditches, mini-malls, home improvement centers and parking lots have been built since then. If the SAME rain event happened today what would all of that extra runoff do? How many would die?</p> <p>Why am I so blasted confident that there will indeed be enough river water for the Exelon nuclear plant! Re-read the last two paragraphs! Use your own common sense! It doesn't take a PhD. to read the writing on the wall!   </p> <p>Remove the diversion dam, the dams on Hog and Goff Bayous and clean the river channel out from bank to bank! There! I've solved the problem in the Lower Basin as far as water backing up! I'll expect my $1.5 million check in the mail this week! I'll hold my breath until it gets here!</p> </div> speakupvictoria.com, Hey, I'm still speaking up! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8219 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8219 <div>Veritas! Latin for truth! Something you don't want getting in the way of your campaign to stop the Exelon Project!</div> <div>No, Mr. Figer I am not a spokesman for Exelon. Exelon has not given me a dime or promised me anything! Neither has VEDC.</div> <div>I have spoken out on behalf of this project, the ethanol plant, the Coleto Creek expansion, the Navigation District upgrades and the four year college because I believe I speak for the vast majority of the average working people in this area who're suffering right now!</div> <div>We need these jobs and benefits! They will provide a small insulation against a national, state and local economy that's in deep trouble!</div> <div>No one has promised me anything! You can read the paper through the threadbare blue uniforms I wear. My mother finally broke down today and bought me some socks and underwear! I have zero dollars in the bank and two over-burdened credit cards! I'm on disability from a serious thyroid illness that has left me unable to work in my craft as an electrician. I have a $14,000 surgery upcoming. I get $1076 per month on the 3rd and it's usually gone by the 5th! I'm wearing a pair of shoes I bought at a resale shop two years ago. I have one good suit that I'm going to get married in. My truck needs $1000 worth of work and my teeth need $5000, yet I've spent well over $300 researching, producing, copying and distributing two well-researched reports on this project and Generation III nuclear technology in general. No one asked me to do this, it's just something I do well. I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do! People respect what I have to say because I have a 30 year reputation of doing my homework before I speak!</div> <div>I answered all the questions on your website, posted them on my blog and you have remained silent! You've had three opportinities to speak up in a public forum and ask questions. You decided to keep quiet! You have decided to sit back and throw rocks from behind the scenes instead of standing up in a crowd and asking your questions! And what ignorant questions your website questions are. I support the project and I could ask better antagonistic questions than you're doing! Argumentum ad ignorantiam! Ms. McMaster has so much more courage than you!</div> <div>I shall await the publishing of your press conference today with excited anticipation!</div> <div>Veritas! Veritas! Veritas!</div> <div>No, Mr. Figer, I'm not an Exelon spokesman!</div> <div>No, Mr. Figer, I'm not a spokesman for Exelon!</div> Dear speakupvictoria.com, I'm speaking up! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8136 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/8136 <p><strong><em>I decided to republish my blog today to answer yet another of speakupvictoria.com's questions. "Why aren't other cities lining up to get a nuclear plant?"(paraphrased) Well, the answer to that question is very simple! Not many other cities have the surplus water needed for the project! To further answer that question;  if Bay City weren't already in line for another unit at STNP they would happily slit our throats for the Exelon project! Just ask them!</em></strong></p> <p>I also found it interesting that the two main spokesmen for this group are strangely silent and refuse to come out and speak up on this public forum! I'm certainly nothing to fear for these two well-heeled college graduates! Or do they fear the bloggers? Do they fear the people who have nothing better to do than sit back and prove them wrong! There are a lot of us out here that may want <strong><em><u>them</u></em></strong> to answer a few questions! Like, why is it they seem to have a <strong><em><u>we've got ours, the hell with the rest of you </u></em></strong>attitude?</p> <p>So here's your opportunity!</p> <p>speakupvictoria.com keeps asking questions in their advertising but remain silent every time a public opportunity is given to ask questions! Therefore I decided to answer some of their concerns!</p> <div><font face="Verdana">John and Bill,</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Man you guys are making this easy! You are aware that Exelon was not even a corporation when the original tritium leak occurred. It's public knowledge. If you'd taken the opportunity you've been crying for to ask hard questions in public, you'd have found that Exelon bought people's land from them to mitigate this leak on a plant they purchased. If you'd taken that golden opportunity to ask those questions you'd have learned that because of Exelon's efforts to install and operate a rigorous new groundwater testing system at all their plants they found tritium at another plant they bought and are cleaning up that site as you read this on a leak they didn't even cause!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">But no! You sat back and smugly remained silent! That way you can continue to sit back and throw rocks! This is indeed the third opportunity you've passed up to ask your hard questions in public.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">If you had bothered to ask those questions you keep talking about you'd have learned months ago that the plant will not require near the 75,000 a/f of water GBRA promised them. You would have also found out that I personally warned them about GBRAs reputation and they were doing their own independent studies anyway! You would have also learned that they plan a 105,000 a/f reservoir with a possible addition to that and that their engineers have already figured in evaporation rates and seepage back in to the aquifer! You would have also learned that the actual seepage rate from the cooling pond will exceed the amount of groundwater needed for the plant creating a net increase to the aquifer!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">If you had bothered to come to the Exelon presentation at the groundwater district months ago you'd have been able to ask public questions about anything you wanted! No! You weren't there. Neither did either of you attend any of the technical forums for the management plan. I made all but one!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">"...wetlands, bays and estuaries...!" Hmmm, I've been nominated to serve on the stakeholder's group studying that very issue! Oops! You weren't there for that were you? The city, county, VEDC and private individuals nominated me to serve on this group. Where were you if you're so concerned about the bays and estuaries? </font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Is the site geologically sound? Would a national energy firm with a board and stockholders to answer to build a multi-billion dollar project without doing geological and hydrological studies and take core samples? No, and you know that because you are aware of the core samples and site work they are doing right now! Leaking into the groundwater! Hmmm! Yup, there will be seepage of cooling pond water back into the aquifer. However, if you'd bothered to show up at the groundwater district and ask you'd have learned that Exelon will be drilling a large number of monitor wells around the plant to check that very thing!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Yes, the plant will be 12 miles from Victoria. The greatest danger is that irrational, unreasonable and unfounded fear of nuclear technology will drive away the jobs and capitol investment that would help insulate Victoria from hard economic times! If you had spent the time and effort I have to research Generation III nuclear technology you'd know exactly how safe it is! If you'd spent the time I have building and installing some of the technology used in process safety you'd have no problem with it.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Ahhh! The "safety record of the technology!" Good question! If you'd bothered to do your homework you'd know that the new Advanced Boiling Water Reactors(ABWRs) are indeed very advanced. In fact, as I sit and write this, the Japanese are building three ABWR plants. The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor(ESBWR) is even more advanced than those! It employs less pumps and piping and uses less nuclear fuel. Which technology are you asking about? The 30 to 50 year old technology used to build the last plant in the United States or the Generation III planned for Victoria? There are a number of ABWRs operating safely around the world.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">It can easily be secured! Tell you what, you drive a bobtail truck down to the STNP plant in Bay City and make a run for the gate! Just leave a note on what to do with your body!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">It's going to be very difficult for a nuclear accident to happen since the ESBWRs cooling water is stored directly above the reactor. Should the core overheat and crack the containment shell the cooling water drops down and drowns the core. Since the cooling water is indeed stored above the core, it is gravity fed to the core and does not have to rely on pumps to flood the core. Fewer pumps and less piping means less to go wrong or fail. In the nuclear industry the ESBWR is deemed "passively safe."</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">I fully expect nuclear waste to be recycled in coming years but storing it on site will certainly create no greater risk since it's stored in very secure concrete vaults. And considering the efficiency of nuclear power and especially the efficiency of the ESBWR it will take many years to build up even a small amount of spent nuclear fuel. In fact, the old reactors that have been running for 30 to 50 years all together have only produced enough spent fuel to cover one football field only seven yards deep. Let's see that's how many billions of KWHs for that miniscule amount of fuel? In all that time they have produced no green house gasses or particulate air pollution.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Intelligent people would indeed wonder about the reputation of a community that would not allow such a huge capitol investment! Perhaps anyone with such an irrational, unreasonable and unfounded fear of this technology should indeed live elsewhere! Let's not contaminate our gene pool with more ignorance!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">Personally, I expect my property values to increase. That is, of course, unless uranium exploration starts within miles of my house.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana"><strong><em><u>"Will there be enough water for economic development?"</u></em></strong> I cannot believe you asked that! Bill Richter and I fought the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project in order to stop San Antonio from getting <strong><em><u>our</u></em></strong> water for <strong><em><u>their</u></em></strong> economic development and now that we indeed have a chance at economic development and a huge capitol investment, <strong><em><u>you come out and oppose it! </u></em></strong></font><font face="Verdana">And then have the audacity to say you're worried about economic development? Give me a break!</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">"The plant introduces economic risks without truly exploring alternative energy options!" "<strong><em><u>Truly</u></em></strong>" <strong><em><u>I believe it's your own lawyer, Jim Blackburn, who is presently suing to oppose a wind farm on Kenedy Ranch! The last time I checked wind power is a popular form of "alternative energy!"</u></em></strong> Perhaps your camp should get all your ducks in a row before speaking up!  </font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">There you go, Bill and John! "5 key questions!" I addressed them all. Try visiting Bill Harris at 114 N. Main! Sit down and he'll furnish all the technical data you need to answer your questions.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana">I'm going to post this on my Advocate blog so everyone in the area will be able to get in on this conversation!</font></div> Global Warming and computer modeling! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/7424 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/KennethSchustereit/7424 <font face="Verdana" size="6"> <p align="center"><img height="141" src="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/3rdparty/editor/editor/Image2.gif" width="216" alt="" />What is computer modeling?</p> <p align="center">And how is it related to Global Warming?</p> </font><font face="Verdana" size="5"> <p align="center"> </p> <p>Having worked very hard to keep the water resources of Victoria County IN Victoria County for several years now I have become familiar with computer modeling.</p> <p>A computer model is an extrapolation of facts, assumptions and computations entered in to a computer in an effort to simulate a given set of results.</p> <p>Wikipedia describes a computer model as, “…a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system.</p> <p>Having been a part of the Technical Forum that created the computer model for the Desired Future Condition (DFC) of our aquifer, I was able to have input on what information was fed into the model. This computer model was needed to help our water conservation district create the district’s management plan required for all districts by the state.</p> <p>In the case of our district’s DFC there were certain hard data used and this was added to common <u>assumptions</u> and the DFC was formed. The old adage, “Garbage in-garbage out!” still works here. The more hard data input into the model the more accurate the model is! That is the reason our district has asked for volunteers around the county to allow the district to test and measure their wells. Therefore an evenly spaced group of data can be added to the model increasing it’s accuracy.</p> <p>So, after enough data is gathered, the model becomes less extrapolation and a better picture of the amount of water we have and the true DFC. More actual data-less assumption!</p> <p>Now that we have an idea of what a computer model is, let’s discuss global warming. If you listen carefully to those who constantly warn of <em>this</em> <u>projected</u> disaster or <em>that</em> terrible scenario, they almost always talk about the computer modeling that has been done that is projecting or predicting those terrible things to happen.</p> <strong><em><u> <p>Now listen carefully please!</p> <p>Worse yet, I had no trouble digging up the documented information that debunks much of what the extremist environmentalists scream about every day. I can scream about the documentation proving them wrong all I want but they have believed this garbage for so long it’s become almost a religion to them. <u>Many don’t ever intend to even consider the truth of the matter!</u> <p>I support nuclear power because, other than uranium mining, the industry has great promise in it’s effort to fulfill the energy needs of the fast growing State of Texas in a safe, clean and efficient manner!</p> <p>The GE/Hitachi <em>light water </em>reactor planned for Victoria County will be more efficient, safer and use less uranium fuel than it’s older predecessors! It does not present a danger to even it’s closest neighbors and massive amounts of groundwater will not be needed for it’s operation!</p> </p> <p><strong><em>I am an environmentalist! I do practical things every day to conserve resources for those coming behind me! I will not, however, fall prey to extremist propaganda!</em></strong></p> </u> Worse yet, those who created the computer models are now finding that the data fed in to those models was, in many cases, incorrect to begin with! The Polar Bears are at record numbers according to federal wildlife officials! So, those computer modelers are now scrambling around trying to explain why the oceans haven’t flooded coastal property! Trying to explain why their own instruments are telling them that the oceans have not warmed!</em> Disaster has been predicted for more than fifteen years now and, after reading the evidence I have presented from published media reports, the disasters just aren’t happening!</strong></font>