Recent content by ElliotLake

I wondered that too; my house has a switch box so I can use generator power in winter outages (without endangering linesmen trying to make repairs). And there's a power line near me with "caution, reversing voltage" warning or some such. So--lines distributing electricity from Fukushima, could...

1mm poly is a lot thicker than standard greenhouse poly, too (6mil).

@Hiyodori: Insufficient fluid intake IS dehydration--and splitting hairs, the heart stops-- "cardiac dysfunction" -- when you die of dehydration. My father was a physician who did a lot of emergency work, I am familiar with these things.

SteveElbows: I don't know about the Cali sites, but Portland and Seattle are large seacoast cities and.. Boise is I believe the only one in Idaho where there are sensors in use. Plus, standing under the Rockies, it catches Pacific weather as well. So, seem sensible to me to check those sites...

I'm not going to click the link, it would be too distressing to read the details, but I took care of my elderly mother as she was dying, and for them to leave bedbound people to die of dehydration means they left them for a really long time. A long, agonizing time. Not only in pain, but...

Indeed: Radiation understated after quake, Japan says http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/world/asia/07japan.html?_r=1

I've no nuclear experience but have built & fired a lot of kilns, and that red substance is nothing like any brick (kiln or otherwise) I've seen. The weird blue red in overburnt bricks goes along with melting, slagging not crumbliness. Boiler bricks would be whitish to white, high duty (high...

Highly doubtful it's brick; that's a wrong red for bricks, too bluish-red, too "red" for brick. Appears too as though whatever the red is, it got there after the pile got pushed together.

[/PLAIN] Thanks for this. If that black object is is roof sheeting though, it must have something substantial attached to it, as it neither looks nor moves like heavy metal sheeting I have seen peel off roofs in high winds. Those move more the way leaves do, twirling and shearing...

Things are already disappearing, and access as well; Kyodo news for instance has trimmed accessibility. There is software to add wikis to sites, perhaps this forum's host has such a capability?

[/PLAIN] Lurker with first question: how is it that the edge of the opening on right hand side is so very clean and sharp --yet appears to have rebar curled back from it? Or are those shadows from above, and a doorframe unmarred by the explosion?