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Friday, March 18, 2011

Wondering why Obama is going to Brazil?

Obama is headed to Brazil to visit the President of Brazil, Dilma Vana Rousseff. The daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant father and a schoolteacher mother, Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist during her youth, and following the 1964 coup d'état joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured and jailed between 1970 and 1972 and reportedly tortured.



Why would the President of the United States visit with a Marxist/Socialist and even worse, give them our oil in the gulf of Mexico?

Amplify’d from www.upi.com

Petrobras gets permit for U.S. deep waters

WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Washington has given Petrobras America Inc. permission to start oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, a regulator said.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement gave Petrobras approval to use a floating production storage offloading facility at its Cascade-Chinook project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The approval marks the first time FPSO technology will be used in U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil and gas project is about 165 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 8,200 feet of water. The FPSO has a production capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil and 16 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The Sound of Silence...

What would happen if the headline said Halliburton instead of G.E.? Never mind, I know.

Amplify’d from abcnews.go.com

Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest



Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.


Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday's earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.


"The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant," Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. "The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release."


Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant Has Five Mark 1 Reactors


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