Let us pause for a moment from our daily uttering about audio, and remember the difficult times some of our fellow humans experience at the moment in Japan..

You'll see some amazing photos from the earthquake, the tsunami that followed and the devastation it caused.

(The link appeared first in http://cpskal.gr/ which is the old 'audiophile club of Athens')


The resulting nuclear nightmare, makes one wonder about our 'wisdom' in the use of modern technology, without considering the implications..

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html

It's all very sad arthur, but as I said in the other thread with some many disasters, wars and constant bombardment by 24hours news stations, newspapers that we become desensitized by what is going on around us, not much left to shock us and it become just another human tragedy.

Even so what I see on the news still leaves me shocked and horrified at what has happened in Japan, plus my brother lives there with his family so it hits home that little bit more.

Sadly we see it so often that a few days later we forget it, while those suffering have to live with the consequences for years to come.

Sad but true Adam, the world is turning into a very vicious place, through acts of people and mother nature alike!

What can u do?

Not much we can do.

Perhaps, some lessons can be learned from this devastation?

Better choice of locations for power generating nuclear reactors?

Much stronger, from an engineering point of view, construction, able to withstand tremors, tsunamis and whatever else natural disasters may happen in the future? Cost of project should be less important than absolute safety.

Finite life span of these stations?


The issue is far too serious to leave things to chance IMHO.

An earthquake and a tsunami, devastating as they are, can last several minutes..

Nuclear catastrophy may last for decades - if no more!

Well the Japs are very much technologically advanced so if the rest of the world can learn from their new preventional methods then at least their has been some form of good come from it all.....I think! Horrible times!

The Japanese were more prepared for earthquakes than any one, that's why most building in tokyo absorbed the earthquake, they are built to with stand them, the problem was the tsunami, they were prepared even for that, what they were not prepared for was the size of the quake and the after effect of that tsunami, they had wall built, a big massive gate, but the tsunami just moved it out of the way as if it was a cardboard box, that is the power of nature, next time they will make it stronger, that is Japanese mentality.

I don't really know about nuclear power, but I do wonder how much of it is over played and fear mongering by the press, and how much of it is covered up by the authorities, I've heard both sides.

Near to where I live arthur about 1 1/2 hours drive away there is a place called tarifa, it face the Atlantic more than the med sea any it is always very windy so you get loads of surfers, but also you will find thousands of wind mills, not the Dutch type, but huge massive air turbines to generate electricity, it makes sense to me, we need to find ways of using sustainable methods, such as maybe finding a way of grinding grass down so you can use it for something, but in the summer it is always growing and we just chuck it away, I think we need to look more to nature.

Arthur, I pause to think of them every morning and evening, and while pausing, I dial a local Red Cross number and donate approximately half na euro per call, or an euro per day. It's the least I can do. I pity those people like I don't know how to begin to describe.

Serbia, where I live, is in a particularly bad way regarding nuclear power plants. Although they have been banned in the country, we are surrounded by aging and ureliable nukes all around us, in Austria, Croatia/Slovenia (they share), Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, a total of 7.

Given that the distances to them are less than 1,000 miles worst case, if any one of them should go rogue, we will be involved, like it or not.

While in the UK, way back in 1970, I always used to regard the local nuclear power station, the one at Hinkley Point, as a suspect, and from the window of my room, I had a grand view of it.

Cancer always on the rise.....hmmmmmm