Go, go, Gadget Seawall!

Talk about rose colored glasses for the past. Some how the deadliest natural disaster and 2nd most costly hurricane in US history = A model of libertarian efficiency. What a ridiculous fallacious comparison. Maybe if the people had evacuated themselves or built a seawall and raised the island in anticipation of the storm rather than after ~8k people were killed and damn near every building on the island was wiped off it did they think, 'hey maybe we should be slightly concerned about hurricanes'. Further more, it was the Texas and Galveston governments that were responsible for the creation of the seawall. Its not like all the local residents and business banded together to create it.

I don't think anyone would argue that FEMA is a great agency, but to suggest its worthless is absurd (especially in offering the 1900 Galveston hurricane as comparison of how much better things were without FEMA).

How the fuck does this even happen? Pressure from an influx of water from the seawall or something?

There are lots of articles, but this one is also good. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/At-Fukushima-gensets-were-underground/articleshow/7741036.cms

"heat in the cores even after shutdown, sufficient to boil off 300 tonnes of water every day"

"Analysis emerging now shows that there were 13 diesel generators installed in a below-ground bunker near the seawall protecting the nuclear plant from the ocean. The diesel fuel was reportedly stored in tanks built on the sea front to facilitate easy unloading from ships."


This backup generator design has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, next to leaving like six reactors worth of spent fuel rods sitting in an open pool on top of a nuclear reactor.

So basically this place was designed to only have 8 hours of battery power... Clearly the reactors were going to melt down. I'm really surprised there was no emergency water tanks built into the system anywhere. Now I understand why TEPCO told the PM on Monday that they were done, and they were leaving and it was a suicide mission to stay. Remember when they said all the workers left. That was when they told the govt it is hopeless.

Never forget.

http://videosift.com/video/Greenspan-Destroys-Deregulation-in-16-Seconds>> ^marinara:

did you know right before AIG went under, they bought a japanese insurance agency. so now USA taxpayers going to pay for stuff just like we're seeing. (since we own AIG)

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