p.s.: if only we could harness the immense & ravenous power of internet trolling for our energy needs...perhaps youtube could send out free motion generator rings to be worn on one's typing fingers if enough thumbs downed are earned...that and a headband that generates a small amount of current every time someone frowns or their temples pulsate with nerd-quaking troll-rage.
Pretty interesting! This would be good music to write to, I think, which is to say I enjoy it and the way its mood unfolds atypically. It reminds me ever so slightly mood-wise of the song you sent me a few years back based on that apocalypse movie...the one where you call out "dad?" at the end. That song's still neat, btw. I'd pay to have more of your songs if there was a place to get them...your website now shows some yuppies kissing on a gondola next to a jaguar.
Great performance honey! It's plain to see that nuclear power is attacking human genetics. No other energy or nature catastrophe does this. You just watch what happened there of malformations where artificial radioactivity is spreaded, also by Uranium bombings. Nuclear power is not cheap, it's the most expensive energy. But all the politicians who sponsored it before don't like to confess now it was a misinvestment. Why does no insurance want it if it's so safe? hahaha, you pay yourself! ^^
Noam Chomsky recently said, "There are two major threats of the lives and death of the humankind. One is the environmental catastrophe, the other is the threat of nuclear power."
Coal and gas power plants have killed innumerable more people via pollution than nuclear power ever has, not to mention the environmental damage. Unless you can come up with a magic alternative, nuclear power is still a much safer and cleaner alternative. Even Chernobyl, the tragedy that it was, is only estimated to have killed a few thousand, long-term
Also do you know how much radiation a coal power plant emits into the atmosphere every year?
The anti-nuclear lobby is irrational and idealistic, not to mention ignorant on energy issues as a whole. If we took their advice, we'd all be living in caves with no electricity. All they succeed in is fear mongering and blowing things way out of proportion to keep society scared.
More effort needs to be made to improve renewable energies so that one day that's all we'll need, but until then, we still need power, and nuclear IS better than fossil fuels.
and don't even get me started on peak oil. If it hasn't already begun it will within our lifetime, and unless we're prepared, we can only imagine what will happen to society when oil becomes too expensive to use as fuel. We need to start preparing now. Pave the way for the future one step at a time instead of holding on to old technologies until they completely destroy us - which is exactly what will happen sooner or later. It boggles my mind how shortsighted people can be.
@MrFreeGman I read an article today in Forbes stating that "The amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II". How is this a safer cleaner alternative to even coal and gas? Chernobyl continues to cause illness and death, especially in people who weren't even alive at the time of the catastrophe. Greenpeace has a good video up about the long term effects of Chernobyl.
You forgot this part of the article: "but it noted a simple comparison between an instantaneous bomb blast and long-term accidental leak is impossible and the results could be “irrelevant.”
Greenpeace "research" is a joke. Their objective is to spread ideology. The WHO estimates about 4,000 total deaths; Greenpeace estimates >200,000. Hmm.
And again, do you have any clue as to how many people die annually from pollution related to fossil fuels? It's not even comparable.
The point is we don't know, that there is no way of measuring or containing the nuclear waste that is being released into the atmosphere but it appears to be bad. This is a major failure of the technology. Right now at Fukushima they are burning waste, redistributing caesium into the air! Greenpeace interviewed first and second generation victims of Chernobyl, people who are stricken with cancer and have had several organs taken out because their land is saturated with nuclear waste.
So your solution is to build more fossil fuel plants which we KNOW do insurmountably more damage to our health and environment than nuclear power? Nice logic there.
@MrFreeGman I never mentioned oil/gas you did to create a fallacious argument. NO SHIT oil/coal is bad for people and the planet but I wasn't talking about that. You know, there might be some corruption involved when Canada makes billions off of uranium mining and Obama's biggest campaign fundraiser was nuclear power baron. Funding for Bio-techonogy research has been slashed too. I wonder why we have few comparable alternatives, hmmmm.
Your argument against nuclear power is inherently an argument in favour of fossil fuels. You have to have one or the other, there is no other feasible replacement for our nuclear plants.
If you're going to be anti-nuclear, AND anti-fossil fuels, then what exactly is your proposal? Advancements ARE being made with renewable energy, but they're not going to become our prominent energy source over night; it will take decades at least.
@MrFreeGman No actually it isn't so you can stop speaking for me. In BC where I live over 80% of our power is hydroelectric (0% is nuclear). There ARE other options. They do depend on geographical circumstances and available technologies but they do exist as successful renewable resources. It's not all or nothing.
So you're only anti-nuclear pertaining to your specific region, not Canada as a whole, or the world for that matter? Okay...you could have made that clear from the beginning.
Here you go: "It is estimated that 0.3 million people die annually world-wide from societally-imposed, fossil fuel-based electricity generation pollutants (carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulates, volatile organics and heavy metals, notably mercury) and 170,000 people die annually world-wide from coal burning-based electricity generation"
That's PER YEAR. Even if that 200k figure for Chernobyl is correct, which it's not, it's not even comparable as I said.
@darianryder The children in Fukushima have iodine-131 in their thyroids and it is accumulating. I will be overjoyed if there are no deaths related to Fukushima down the road but that's seems very unlikely. It is affecting us on the other side of the pacific too. "Infant mortality in eight cities in the U.S. Northwest jumped 35 percent after Fukushima, according to an article by internist and toxicologist Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on the Counterpunch website in June."
@darianryder You don't have to "let" me have the final word because I put this video here to provoke discussion. Nuclear reactors are not natural, we build them, sometimes even on fault lines! Then we seem to neglect to maintain them. Yesterday's minor earthquake in North America forced two similar substandard reactors off line. The same thing could happen anywhere at anytime because natural disasters are not preventable. Nuclear disasters are 100% preventable.
@darianryder thanks and virtual hug accepted:) I don't profess to know everything about the world's energy issues but in terms of cost, I think that the long term social and environmental costs of nuclear power are far too high a price to pay. In the best case scenario where there are no accidents we are still amassing large quantities of nuclear waste. That our only solution is to bury it in the ground is disconcerting to say the least. In Canada only 15% of power is nuclear, hardly worth it.
couldn't resist this cosy title - the press half-life is definitely shorter than of radionuclides. Arsenyevitch (Tarkovsky) would have liked to have this as soundtrack for The Sacrifice...
@erinmerle I'm pretty sure *y*o*u* would like it! ;) actually some of your scene and color management reminds me of it. do know the "Wind" movie only in parts. the system "protect and survive" is extremely disgusting: a murderer telling me how to save my life, haha, ridiculous! cheers from nuc pow plant-removing banana-land! ;))
And once again, the wondrous Erin knocks a track out of the park. :D
brandonwilliford 1 month ago in playlist Originals
Quite a remarkable video...albeit in a chilling way.
MrVideoRater1 4 months ago
p.s.: if only we could harness the immense & ravenous power of internet trolling for our energy needs...perhaps youtube could send out free motion generator rings to be worn on one's typing fingers if enough thumbs downed are earned...that and a headband that generates a small amount of current every time someone frowns or their temples pulsate with nerd-quaking troll-rage.
ninkly 5 months ago
Pretty interesting! This would be good music to write to, I think, which is to say I enjoy it and the way its mood unfolds atypically. It reminds me ever so slightly mood-wise of the song you sent me a few years back based on that apocalypse movie...the one where you call out "dad?" at the end. That song's still neat, btw. I'd pay to have more of your songs if there was a place to get them...your website now shows some yuppies kissing on a gondola next to a jaguar.
ninkly 5 months ago
Struggling to find words to describe how your art makes me feel ! !
Thought provoking to say the least, really enjoyed this piece !
brucewbowser 5 months ago
Great performance honey! It's plain to see that nuclear power is attacking human genetics. No other energy or nature catastrophe does this. You just watch what happened there of malformations where artificial radioactivity is spreaded, also by Uranium bombings. Nuclear power is not cheap, it's the most expensive energy. But all the politicians who sponsored it before don't like to confess now it was a misinvestment. Why does no insurance want it if it's so safe? hahaha, you pay yourself! ^^
Alyssasrealm 6 months ago
Noam Chomsky recently said, "There are two major threats of the lives and death of the humankind. One is the environmental catastrophe, the other is the threat of nuclear power."
erinmerle 6 months ago
Coal and gas power plants have killed innumerable more people via pollution than nuclear power ever has, not to mention the environmental damage. Unless you can come up with a magic alternative, nuclear power is still a much safer and cleaner alternative. Even Chernobyl, the tragedy that it was, is only estimated to have killed a few thousand, long-term
Also do you know how much radiation a coal power plant emits into the atmosphere every year?
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
cont...
The anti-nuclear lobby is irrational and idealistic, not to mention ignorant on energy issues as a whole. If we took their advice, we'd all be living in caves with no electricity. All they succeed in is fear mongering and blowing things way out of proportion to keep society scared.
More effort needs to be made to improve renewable energies so that one day that's all we'll need, but until then, we still need power, and nuclear IS better than fossil fuels.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
cont...
and don't even get me started on peak oil. If it hasn't already begun it will within our lifetime, and unless we're prepared, we can only imagine what will happen to society when oil becomes too expensive to use as fuel. We need to start preparing now. Pave the way for the future one step at a time instead of holding on to old technologies until they completely destroy us - which is exactly what will happen sooner or later. It boggles my mind how shortsighted people can be.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
@MrFreeGman I read an article today in Forbes stating that "The amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II". How is this a safer cleaner alternative to even coal and gas? Chernobyl continues to cause illness and death, especially in people who weren't even alive at the time of the catastrophe. Greenpeace has a good video up about the long term effects of Chernobyl.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle
You forgot this part of the article: "but it noted a simple comparison between an instantaneous bomb blast and long-term accidental leak is impossible and the results could be “irrelevant.”
Greenpeace "research" is a joke. Their objective is to spread ideology. The WHO estimates about 4,000 total deaths; Greenpeace estimates >200,000. Hmm.
And again, do you have any clue as to how many people die annually from pollution related to fossil fuels? It's not even comparable.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
The point is we don't know, that there is no way of measuring or containing the nuclear waste that is being released into the atmosphere but it appears to be bad. This is a major failure of the technology. Right now at Fukushima they are burning waste, redistributing caesium into the air! Greenpeace interviewed first and second generation victims of Chernobyl, people who are stricken with cancer and have had several organs taken out because their land is saturated with nuclear waste.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle
So your solution is to build more fossil fuel plants which we KNOW do insurmountably more damage to our health and environment than nuclear power? Nice logic there.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
@MrFreeGman I never mentioned oil/gas you did to create a fallacious argument. NO SHIT oil/coal is bad for people and the planet but I wasn't talking about that. You know, there might be some corruption involved when Canada makes billions off of uranium mining and Obama's biggest campaign fundraiser was nuclear power baron. Funding for Bio-techonogy research has been slashed too. I wonder why we have few comparable alternatives, hmmmm.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle
Your argument against nuclear power is inherently an argument in favour of fossil fuels. You have to have one or the other, there is no other feasible replacement for our nuclear plants.
If you're going to be anti-nuclear, AND anti-fossil fuels, then what exactly is your proposal? Advancements ARE being made with renewable energy, but they're not going to become our prominent energy source over night; it will take decades at least.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
@MrFreeGman No actually it isn't so you can stop speaking for me. In BC where I live over 80% of our power is hydroelectric (0% is nuclear). There ARE other options. They do depend on geographical circumstances and available technologies but they do exist as successful renewable resources. It's not all or nothing.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle
So you're only anti-nuclear pertaining to your specific region, not Canada as a whole, or the world for that matter? Okay...you could have made that clear from the beginning.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
@erinmerle
Here you go: "It is estimated that 0.3 million people die annually world-wide from societally-imposed, fossil fuel-based electricity generation pollutants (carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulates, volatile organics and heavy metals, notably mercury) and 170,000 people die annually world-wide from coal burning-based electricity generation"
That's PER YEAR. Even if that 200k figure for Chernobyl is correct, which it's not, it's not even comparable as I said.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
@MrFreeGman POINT three million? Skewed data and no source. Typical.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle
.3 million is 300,000. Nothing skewed about that.
I can't post links here, just google it.
MrFreeGman 6 months ago
Very beautiful and moving - what art is all about. I really enjoyed. All the best, Karl
karlmahlmann 6 months ago
@darianryder The children in Fukushima have iodine-131 in their thyroids and it is accumulating. I will be overjoyed if there are no deaths related to Fukushima down the road but that's seems very unlikely. It is affecting us on the other side of the pacific too. "Infant mortality in eight cities in the U.S. Northwest jumped 35 percent after Fukushima, according to an article by internist and toxicologist Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on the Counterpunch website in June."
erinmerle 6 months ago
@darianryder You don't have to "let" me have the final word because I put this video here to provoke discussion. Nuclear reactors are not natural, we build them, sometimes even on fault lines! Then we seem to neglect to maintain them. Yesterday's minor earthquake in North America forced two similar substandard reactors off line. The same thing could happen anywhere at anytime because natural disasters are not preventable. Nuclear disasters are 100% preventable.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@darianryder thanks and virtual hug accepted:) I don't profess to know everything about the world's energy issues but in terms of cost, I think that the long term social and environmental costs of nuclear power are far too high a price to pay. In the best case scenario where there are no accidents we are still amassing large quantities of nuclear waste. That our only solution is to bury it in the ground is disconcerting to say the least. In Canada only 15% of power is nuclear, hardly worth it.
erinmerle 6 months ago
Class...
Harno3 6 months ago
couldn't resist this cosy title - the press half-life is definitely shorter than of radionuclides. Arsenyevitch (Tarkovsky) would have liked to have this as soundtrack for The Sacrifice...
frozenwhitebear 6 months ago
@frozenwhitebear That sounds like a movie I need to see. Have you seen 'When the Wind Blows'?
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle I'm pretty sure *y*o*u* would like it! ;) actually some of your scene and color management reminds me of it. do know the "Wind" movie only in parts. the system "protect and survive" is extremely disgusting: a murderer telling me how to save my life, haha, ridiculous! cheers from nuc pow plant-removing banana-land! ;))
frozenwhitebear 6 months ago
Haunting. Your voice captured it all. Thanks for sharing.
cheers,
julie
buniluvr 6 months ago
@buniluvr Thanks for watching, Julie : )
erinmerle 6 months ago
when the atom bomb eventually falls, i hope the only things left standing are your weird and wonderful songs
scottsdunlop 6 months ago
@scottsdunlop Thanks Scott. My songs are indeed radiation proof just like cockroaches.
erinmerle 6 months ago
@erinmerle actually laughed out loud
doctorcastille 6 months ago