This coming week marks the 9th year since the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear disasters. I keep hearing that all the deaths due to nuclear power plants add up to just a 2 digit number. But it’s not that simple – the nuclear apologists try to understate the deaths and damage done. I don’t think that
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In China, industries burned coal and people burned coal for cooking and heating. In cities like Beijing the air pollution was so bad that it was hard to see the stop lights and pedestrians had to wear facemasks. The pollution killed estimated millions of people with lung problems. China realized this and has done a
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We went out to Hennessey’s in downtown San Juan Capistrano, and I talked to a guy who is waiting on a list for a kidney. In the meantime he goes to a dialysis center for treatment three times a week for four hours, brings his laptop and watches movies. It costs his insurance $7,400.00 per
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From FB comment. If you don’t vote for change, the whole world’s going to go to hell. We had better change the way we live, and cut back on fossil fuels, and change to renewables, or else there’s not going to be any livable world for the future generations! If your relatives moved out of
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This is a link to a Facebook post, it may not work but it might be found somewhere on the web. https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=612259722238327&id=100003629137681&set=a.138485232949114
I found that if I clean the volume control and it’s still intermittent, it helps if I connect a resistor from the center pin of the volume control to the ‘cold’ or common or ground end. The resistance was about 10 percent of the value of the pot. Say it’s a 5k pot, the resistor
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SAN DIEGO, CA – JANUARY 26: The Deportation and the separation of families is a major theme in the immigration reform debate. (Photograph by Charles Ommanney/Reportage by Getty Images) Individuals in the U.S. without documentation are believed to contribute $12 billion to local and state taxes, according to a new study.CHARLES OMMANNEY/GETTY IMAGES IMMIGRANTS ILLEGALLY
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SAN DIEGO, CA – JANUARY 26: The Deportation and the separation of families is a major theme in the immigration reform debate. (Photograph by Charles Ommanney/Reportage by Getty Images) Individuals in the U.S. without documentation are believed to contribute $12 billion to local and state taxes, according to a new study.CHARLES OMMANNEY/GETTY IMAGES IMMIGRANTS ILLEGALLY
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SAN DIEGO, CA – JANUARY 26: The Deportation and the separation of families is a major theme in the immigration reform debate. (Photograph by Charles Ommanney/Reportage by Getty Images) Individuals in the U.S. without documentation are believed to contribute $12 billion to local and state taxes, according to a new study.CHARLES OMMANNEY/GETTY IMAGES IMMIGRANTS ILLEGALLY
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This list seems to be mostly integrated circuits, but some semiconductor makers make discrete devices – transistors and diodes, for example Motorola. http://www.siliconinvestigations.com/Logos/logos.htm
