Scientist in japan say the March 11 tsunami had the power of an atom bomb.
They estimate that the wall of water had a punch of 40 tons per square meter. This explains the total devastation of the towns and cities hit by the monster wave.
No more Daylight savings for Russia
“the need to adapt [to the time change] is connected with stress and illnesses.”-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
This spring is the last time Russia will change its clocks. Come October they’ll be no daylight savings to deal with. In 1981 the Soviet Union started a daylight savings program. Russia continued the program, but more and […] Continue Reading…
Britain facing larger and more violent protests, thanks to budget cuts and war with Libya
Thousands of people took to the streets in London, on March 26. Police were attacked with paint bombs and ammonia bombs. Businesses were attacked, even delivery trucks. The Cause? Huge budget cuts for schools and health care, and War.
“It’s been ten years now that we’ve been intervening in wars. We had the war […] Continue Reading…
Diesel powered Locomotives brought back to life after Japan Disaster, Low Tech saving High Tech!
The recent catastrophic disaster in Japan, which tore up many rail lines in northern Honshu, has brought back to life retired diesel powered locomotives.
That’s because, even on the rail lines that have been fixed, there is no electric power to run Japan’s modern electric trains. Electric power is going to be an issue for […] Continue Reading…
Video of Liquefaction in Action near Tokyo Disneyland, found the video on Youtube
I found the home video of liquefaction near Tokyo Disneyland, in Chiba Prefecture, on YouTube.
The two minute 39 second video shows sidewalks splitting, length wise, then moving in opposite directions. Water then begins to surge up from under the sidewalks and streets. The person doing the videography starts running as more water comes up […] Continue Reading…
Official Tsunami evacuation point was Death Trap, warnings were made
In an area of Sendai city, in north east Honshu, Japan, there are survivors who are glad they refused to go to the official tsunami evacuation point, an elementary school. They are alive, but most of the people at the elementary school are not.
Based on computer modeling, disaster officials designated the elementary school as […] Continue Reading…
Without control room power, Nuclear plant operators flying blind, water building up like “swimming pools”!
An analyst interviewed by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), says until the reactor control rooms are turned on at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, plant operators will not know what is going on inside the reactors.
They are trying to get electric power to reactor 2 control room, because reactor 2 is still intact (reactors […] Continue Reading…
Electricity shortage will affect Car makers (and other industries) well into summer
Did anyone think that one nuclear disaster can adversely affect the economy? Fukushima Daiichi is one of the biggest nuclear plants in Japan, all its reactors are down. Even if efforts to control the nuclear disaster are somewhat successful, Fukushima Daiichi is done, its toast, ain’t no more electric power coming from that plant.
This […] Continue Reading…
Disaster directly affecting Electronics makers directly affecting Auto makers
Many of the parts needed to produce cars now, are electronics. The big electronics suppliers for the automotive industry are still shut down after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Renesas Electronics, a maker of semiconductors used to control vehicles, has still not resumed operations.
Hitachi Automotive Systems, does not have full production […] Continue Reading…
Mazda cancels orders from the United States
Mazda Motor will temporarily stop accepting orders from the United States due to a shortage of auto parts, caused by the disasters.
Mazda models being affected by the shut down including the SUV models CX-7 and CX-9, and the Mazda3.