I built this tool to help me wrap my head around what I needed to do to produce all the food needed to provide for an adjustable number of people / selling food.
Fortunately, my dogs love Zuchinni of which I had 10 plants.
This spreadsheet provide information on number of plants needed, customizable for number of people, and a "like" factor based on whether you want more of a vegetable or less.
It also gives you plant spacing data, and plant height so you can plan your layout (tall stuff goes to north side)
And it calculates the total square footage needed, including room for walkways and tools and such.
No wonder the neighbors call me "Super Garden Guy" LOL
Enjoy, I will maybe improve this spreadsheet in spring. Bottom line...it worked, besides buying occasional protein (chicken, milk, beer) this garden did achieve the goal of producing all our food.
I think I saw some TSA drones over the garden (Tomato Surveillance Agency)
I got a new BOX account, which allows you to download some of my actual spreadsheets.
TERMS OF USE
Feel free to use these spreadsheets, they are authorized for public use and modification for any anti-nuclear purpose, and only that. It is required that a complete hyperlink to Nukepro shall be included in any use of the spreadsheets.
One of the lies the nukers use is the half life, or the biological half life. Such as cesium leaves the body at the rate of half every 80 days.
No one want to talk about Strontium. I was curious as to the biological half life. So I found the best study on humans, from a real contamination in Russia at the Techa river. The source is cited within the spreadsheet.
Or view the source information here
Dana Durnford
Has been known to rant
Has built a boat and is performing survey of the Canadian coastline.
And not finding much. And catching others in government in blad faced lies about "there never were sea anomones in these water", and then he quickly finds that same researcher in a 5 year old video showing people the anomones in the waters.
The nuketards say that strontium is not very soluble in water.
Well that's all relative.
There are 1.4 million grams of strontium in Fuku spent fuel inventory.
Do you think it might take Billions of liters of water to dissolve all that strontium?
Think again, in one of its very insoluble forms, Sr hydroxide, it
would only take 342,000 liters of
water to dissolve all of it and
transport it into the ocean.
That's approximately a large swimming pool
Good thing they built that plant on an river and knocked the mountain down.
What could possibly go wrong?
Here is screen captures showing the asinine build out of Fukushima, all because GE refused to customize their Mark 1 design with high head pumps.
Every kWH of PV Solar Electric we create is Wealth Created
Every kWH of Electric from oils or coal is Wealth Depleted
Every kWH of Electric from nuclear is Wealth Stolen from the Future
One of the lies of the nuke cartel is simply using information that used to be accurate. Anytime you see anyone quote anything about solar and it is more than 2 years old, well, that information is likely to be completely bunk.
They also like to lie about the percent of supply that nuclear contributes, even if its a simple lie of torturing the statistics. This site pretends that nuclear is 47% of Spains Electricity, and they peg Solar at 3%. Even if accepting that is true, they state it is 2011 data.
And they like to lie about "being antinuke is being pro coal". The reality in Germany is that while solar and reneweable energies made huge strides, coal (both brown and hard) took a nose dive, even as nuclear continued to fall
And they like to lie about "renewable is expensive and homeowners are getting hit with big cost increases". The article below, translated from German shows how costs are going down
In reality, Spain is shutting down it's nuclear fleet. The plant at Santa María de Garoña, was a single low output 366mW Boiling Water Reactor Mark 1 no less. Good riddance!
Spain only had 6 plants, now it has 5, good work, keep going.
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And for numb-nuts of the month award goes to Japan, for allowing asshat utilities to cripple the fledgling Solar PV industry.
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Although
it can be disturbing, it is also useful to review the "pro nuclear"
news sites. You can easily see the spin and slantedness, as well as
get real news. Here is one site you may want to put on your
bookmarks.
This article is hilarious, Sellafield
working 24/7 to make sure the open air pools are "safe". This shite
has been kicking around, abandoned for over 50 years. The fuel is
damaged and they are using underwater robots to handle broken abused
neglected rods.
And if really have a strong stomach, check out the ridiculously Pro nuke, infamous Rod Adams who does visit Nukepro by the way. Sorry Rod, you are woefully misguided.
First it matters whether the fuel came from a Boiling Water Reactor (like Fukushima was, and like dozens of operating reactors in the USA are) or from a Pressurized Water Reactor.
Second, it matters the degree of fuel "burn up". The more burn up the fuel gets, the more radiation and nasty elements it will have. It will also produce more heat after it is done fissioning. So it will require greater time to dry cask, and greater care in making sure the cooling systems are sized correctly and have adequate backup.
And finally, in the case of Fukushima, the rates of heat production are GREATLY determined by whether there is ongoing fission. We strongly believe that there has been ongoing fission in the underground Coria. There are repeated example of local radiation levels going up after the Coria are jostled by earthquakes. Then 3 to 7 days later, elevated readings in the USA are noted.
I am getting ready for 1.5 months of solid solar design and build out, so no time to play geek with the numbers. If anyone has time, crank up a spreadsheet an email it to me. I will post it up on the site here. Take the meltout estimated KG and apply wattage.
1 Watt = 3.412 BTU/Hour
1 Watt running for 1 hour = 3.412 BTU
1 BTU is the energy needed to heat 1 pound of water one degree Fahrenheit
Any geeks out there?
I will also be reporting in the next several weeks with airline Geiger videos and testing of Pacific Ocean Waters and air samples.
Critics of nuclear energy argue plants like Ginna pose a safety risk to the community. They cost too much to maintain. Uranium fuel costs are rising.
Renewable energy is becoming more popular.
"New Yorkers, particularly Rochester ratepayers who are going to bear the burden of subsidizing this plant, if this agreement goes through, really deserve to know what the choices are," said Jessica Azulay, Program Director, Alliance for a Green Economy.
They can't compete on the open market. They can't compete with natural gas, nor coal, nor solar. In fact now, nuclear is the most expensive way to make electricity.
The petition references
a 10 year purchase power agreement (PPA) that required RG&E to buy
energy from Ginna, but that deal recently expired.
Now Ginna is selling its energy on the wholesale market, something
Constellation said is not sufficient enough to cover its revenues.
With the petition, Constellation is looking to enter into a new
Reliablility Support Services Agreement (RSSA) with RG&E, that would
"forestall the Ginna Facility's retirement."
The Owner is called CENG, which is majority owned by Exelon. The same company in Illinois is extorting more money from the ratepayers, at least trying to.
By Nukepro calculations, Exelon is going to need a 82% increase in sales price in order to break even and make a fair profit. SHUT THIS DOWN!
Ginna is a 581MW PWR
They have been losing about $100M a year.
Based on the rated output, and assuming a 90% capacity factor, that would generate 4.58 Million Megawatt Hours, or 45.8 Million Kilowatthours.
Simple math, the loss per kWH is over 2.2 cents per kWH. No JOKE, well the joke is going to be on the rate payers if they can manipulate the Utiltiy Commission.
What an absurd loss per kWH. Ginna was purchased by Exelon for $408M in 2003.
Their 10 year deal with rGE to buy power at 4.4 cents per kWH
In their plea to "give us more money" they have the audacity to claim that they deserve more money because of "operational risk"
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of CENG corporate overhead). Further, in addition to incurring these losses, CENG has not been
And of course these nuclear asshats play the "carbon card"
They point at a study done which concludes the geographical area needs reliable power, and then they extrapolate that to mean the area needs them.
The plant is over 40 years old, AND they state in their filing that large capital expenditures are needed to keep running. You can see the age of this plant by the 1970's "puke nuke" colors
Just 12 years after this plant went critical in 1970, human error caused a release of a reported 485 curies of noble gas. That is a LOT. Enough to contaminate 89 billion Costco chickens up to 100 Bq/kG.
Here is the supporting information on the rate increase they need to make a "fair profit"
Look at these sale prices for Klunker Nuke Plants....even when they are cheap, they die from economics
Vogtle will cost 80 times what Kewaunee cost, and Kewaunee died from economics
So the plant cost $400M, but it could cost $4 Billion to decommision it. hmmmm, what a deal!
Per the NRC, San Onofre is over $4B
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For an answer to this question, we look to the San Onofre Nuclear
Power Plant in Southern California. In 2012, it was revealed that the
new Mitsubishi tubes put in were wearing prematurely and in June of
2013, it was announced that the plant would be shut down entirely. The
plant would be decommissioned, beginning in early 2016.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Comission, the process would take
around 20 years and cost $4.4 billion, the most ever for
decommissioning a plant."
The petition references
a 10 year purchase power agreement (PPA) that required RG&E to buy
energy from Ginna, but that deal recently expired.
Now Ginna is selling its energy on the wholesale market, something
Constellation said is not sufficient enough to cover its revenues.
With the petition, Constellation is looking to enter into a new
Reliablility Support Services Agreement (RSSA) with RG&E, that would
"forestall the Ginna Facility's retirement."
The petition references
a 10 year purchase power agreement (PPA) that required RG&E to buy
energy from Ginna, but that deal recently expired.
Now Ginna is selling its energy on the wholesale market, something
Constellation said is not sufficient enough to cover its revenues.
With the petition, Constellation is looking to enter into a new
Reliablility Support Services Agreement (RSSA) with RG&E, that would
"forestall the Ginna Facility's retirement."
The petition references
a 10 year purchase power agreement (PPA) that required RG&E to buy
energy from Ginna, but that deal recently expired.
Now Ginna is selling its energy on the wholesale market, something
Constellation said is not sufficient enough to cover its revenues.
With the petition, Constellation is looking to enter into a new
Reliablility Support Services Agreement (RSSA) with RG&E, that would
"forestall the Ginna Facility's retirement."
We have found radiation at levels high enough to raise health
concerns for the people who continue to live daily with this
contamination. We have also shown that the authorities have consistently
underestimated both the risks and extent of radioactive
contamination. Based on our results we called for a significant
extension to the evacuation area, which was later implemented. We
advised that until decontamination was completed, children should be
held back from their schools to avoid high radiation levels. We have
also found that official monitoring stations systematically
underestimate the radiation risks for the population.
Our analysis of the threats to public health have given residents an
alternative to the often contradictory information released by Japan’s
authorities since the Fukushima disaster began.
The teams are made up of Greenpeace radiation experts who have been
trained in radiation monitoring and the use of sophisticated measuring
devices.
Locations and details of radiation levels to date are shown on the
maps below.
Click a flag for details on the levels of contamination
found. Raw data as well as sample analyses can be found in spreadsheets
further down the page.
This paper is done by a PHD. It mimics what I already know. When Kewaunee was purchased as a Klunker for $200M and is shut down based on economic reasons when the retail rate for electric is 14 cents per kWH in the area.
Then how can Vogtle, at a cost of $16,000 Million and selling to the retail in Georgia at 8 cents make any sense?
Hint: if you live in Georgia, you either shut that shite down now and make the investors eat it, or you are going to have massively increasing electric costs.
Get the word out folks!
Interesting that yesterday, the traffic sources to Nukepro had Ukraine and France in 3rd and 4th place, behind USA and Canada.
And very interesting that my second favorite "failed empire" the UK comes in behind all the NON ENGLISH speaking countries, Ukraine, France, Poland, Germany, and Russia.
Nukepro gets more visitors from Russia than from the UK. Wow. See results in the table below.
Its also interesting that traffic from Facebook has now exceeded traffic from ENENEWS
Please link to Nukepro when you can
And here is a funny video, A public apology RE British Poly-Ticks
This is a Japanese Film about the Fukushima Disaster and it's real immediate impact on families
Watch it and Drop a Comment
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Such a tragedy. Horrific.
We could conserve enough energy, by capturing more of the wasted or
rather rejected energy, to rid ourselves of nuclear power and it's
disgusting impact. Nuclear only contributes 8.27% to our total needs,
however, check the graph, and you will see it sure seems like 100% of
the energy generated this way (and a couple of others) is rejected. See
our governments own data by following the link (might want save these
too as ya never know when things just disappear) https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/
We just don't need it. Nuclear power plants only boil water, to turn a
turbine, and to do so they create enormous amounts of waste, danger and
cancer (among many other diseases) We need to be smart, and say no!
Do not be fooled by the mingling of nuclear hazards with solutions to become "carbon free" it is a lie!
Be wary of all international "deals" to work on global warming.
Remember, not only is is deadly dangerous mutating etc.. it generates
enormous amounts of heat! Especially when coriums burrow into the
earth!
These monsters also contaminate our precious limited supply of fresh
water at an enormous rate. It isn't just the ridiculous amount of tax
dollars wasted, but the cost to our collective resources, as organisms,
is entirely too great.
Excellent comment. Would you mind if I copy-and-pasted it into other areas outside of Enenews to try to educate others?
Also, after reading your comment I looked up nuclear-energy-water
usage and each nuclear power plant uses from 10,000 to 30,000 gallons of
water PER MINUTE.
Japanese people are usually pretty quiet, respectful. Especially to those of higher rank, especially to teachers.
When young Japanese start confronting professors and yelling at them, well we could be reaching a tipping point.
The Japanese are not dumb. I spoke to a native Japanese, a 45 year old "girl", who is probably average intelligence. She still lives in Japan. I mentioned "Heh, just in case you weren't aware, Fukushima is A LOT worse than what the news is saying, and it continues to leak radiation every day."
Her response was remarkable, because, again, Japanese are normally very polite. She said with an air of both irritation and disdain "OF COURSE, we ALL know".
They love their country, many are starting to hate their Government.
Click CC at the lower right and you will get the translation subtitle into English
I made this chart. Several other blogs have copied it nearly verbatim, and I am happy that others want to spread actionable information to protect people (would have been nice to get a proper credit though). I had the chart translated to Japanese as I was sending a Geiger to Japan to help families address their real risk. See bottom for the Japanese version.
This is a super condensed table on how to interpret Geiger Readings. Use it to supplement your own research and getting a "block of knowledge".
If you take this radiation stuff at all seriously, then get a Geiger. All the rest is guesswork.
Radiation Alert Inspector, $530 to $600 Amazon
Sometimes, Radiation reporting websites will express radiation readings (based on assumption of Cesium) as microREM/Hour. AS an example, if they are stating 11 microREM/H you divide by 100 to get .11mSv.
This table is based on the Radiation Alert Inspector which is a fine pancake tube type device. The Clicks that any device produces are based on its own "efficiency" in detecting various types of the alpha, beta, or gamma. These can then be converted to a mSv making a huge assumption, i.e. the isotope. Usually Cs is chosen for this guess. But you don't really know the mSv until you know the isotopes involved.
If you have a cheaper, small tube type Geiger, you are going to pick up less Clicks.
And Here are LIVE radiation reports from independent reporting stations.
I am sending my Radiation Alert Inspector to Japan to a family that needs real data---soooo You won't see an Oahu based reporting station until I get my next Geiger delivered.
Simple:
He is using the EPA reports that include very sensitive gamma radiation
reading (in 8 different energy ranges incidentally), compared to radnet
which is comprised of VARIOUS Geiger counters, that are catching some
Alpha, but mostly beta and gamma and they are not as sensitive.
So a CPM means little unless you the type of Geiger that took it.
Seeing
50CPM on a nice Radiation Inspector Alert would not be a "take action
level" but if you have an el cheapo $160 Geiger, and you are seeing
50CPM it may very well be a "figure out what the hell is going on"
moment.
- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html#sthash.nIbzHJX8.dpuf
Hi
Stock. Are you able to explain the discrepancy between Bob Nichol's
Your Radiation This Week and http://radiationnetwork.com/ above? - See
more at:
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html?showComment=1443820247655#c7297177129227982770
Can you explain the difference between the Veterans today report and http://radiationnetwork.com/ above
Simple:
He is using the EPA reports that include very sensitive gamma radiation
reading (in 8 different energy ranges incidentally), compared to radnet
which is comprised of VARIOUS Geiger counters, that are catching some
Alpha, but mostly beta and gamma and they are not as sensitive.
So a CPM means little unless you the type of Geiger that took it.
Seeing
50CPM on a nice Radiation Inspector Alert would not be a "take action
level" but if you have an el cheapo $160 Geiger, and you are seeing
50CPM it may very well be a "figure out what the hell is going on"
moment.
- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html#sthash.nIbzHJX8.dpuf
stock here:Simple: He is using the EPA
reports that include very sensitive gamma radiation reading (in 8
different energy ranges incidentally), compared to radnet which is
comprised of VARIOUS Geiger counters, that are catching some Alpha, but
mostly beta and gamma and they are not as sensitive.
So a CPM means little unless you the type of Geiger that took it.
Seeing
50CPM on a nice Radiation Inspector Alert would not be a "take action
level" but if you have an el cheapo $160 Geiger, and you are seeing
50CPM it may very well be a "figure out what the hell is going on"
moment.
You know, in a world where you have to go to the Russians, the Germans, and Al Jazerra for real news, you just got to ask yourself....do you feel lucky, well do you?
And here is a Reactor Bldg 4 meltout, with a "gamma correction" to reduce the side building shadows and show the melted corium from the equipment pool where they were getting ready to load MOX into the newly replaced shroud of reactor 4.
A great site...they are into exposing lies. I am into exposing truth. Both work. LOL
At the bottom is a video of Reactor 4 Melt Out. This is important. AGR and myself both independently came to the conclusion that TEPCO was also experimenting with MOX in Reactor 4. They were not licensed to, and MOX is way more dangerous. However, the pro-nukers have MOX as their main sales tool to "get rid of existing nuclear waste" and to soup up the old clunker plants using the MOX to extract profits and keep their "precious" industry alive.
Admitting that MOX is EXTREMELY dangerous, and caused a mini nuclear explosion at Reactor 3, AND admitting that the new MOX in the equipment pool at reactor 4 melted out due to its increase reactivity and therefore heat and radiation....well that would shoot their MOX down, and it would shoot their source of their highfaluting livelihood down. And they can't have that, even if the face of ocean killing disasters. So they cover up and lie.
At Reactor 4, the new MOX they were loading (ready to load in the equipment pool) melted down and out. And when corium contacts cement, it pretty much immediately releases all its cesium and start making 10 fold the normal amount of strontium. At Reactor 4, spent fuel pool, there was a 9 hours fire, and certainly a lot of poison was released, but that stopped with borated water. But not the MOX fuel, that burned through the stainless steel liner, and 3 feet of concrete.
MOX-GATE you heard it here first.
MOX is way more dangerous than just Spent Fuel. Spent Fuel used to be the most dangerous thing on earth. Well, the nuclear scientists have now out done themselves.
Here is the proof on the Reactor 3 Nuclear Explosion due to MOX
Here is the proof that Reactor 4 was NOT a hydrogen explosion caused by hydrogen from Reactor 3...incredulously against their claim, Reactor 3 blew up the prior day, no walls, no containment, no hydrogen, even the pipe going the tower can be seen lying open in the rubble. These "experts" don't even think that we deserve credible lies.
Reactor 4 was a MOX Fire, followed by MOX explosion, and meltout.
They state that because Europe and USA are doing it, we should too. France is the worst offender. They are bankrupt and stealing from the future by using nuclear.
One thing is clear though. Reprocessing of fuel to create MOX is 10 times more expensive that putting it into Dry Cask. But the pro-nukers need to have a way to lie to pretend that MOX can make it all go away. It doesn't, it just avoid that problem of otherwise dealing with the spent fuel, and creates a current income stream and justification to keep plants open.
Risky
