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Atomic Waste Stored near Eureka, California... Underground Casks near the Earthquake Zone... There is a Handy Trail so You can Go Visit if You Feel like it!

Atomic Waste Stored near Eureka, California... Underground Casks near the Earthquake Zone...

This Site is Visible from my Home...
In the Event of a Leak I'm a "Downwinder"

Trail to the Atomic Waste Dump - Eureka, CA
Convenient Parking on King Salmon Ave
and a Shoreline Trail...

One Night I saw Seven Large Explosions at the PG&E Power Plant. (It's Visible from my Living Room) I Emailed them Later to Ask if the Atomic Waste was Safe... They said it was Safe and the Explosions were Overloaded Transformers on the Other side of the Power Plant.


Earthquake Map Eureka, CA History
Earthquake Map Eureka, CA - History

4.9-magnitude earthquake strikes in Pacific Ocean near Eureka, CA 2/2/2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/4-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-in-pacific-ocean-near-eureka/



Atomic waste at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
The LAST Active Plant in California...

Atomic waste at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

"Swimming Pools" for Cooling Atomic Waste
and Above Ground Casks for Long Term Storage.

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Diablo Canyon Marked on a Map of California

Diablo Canyon Marked on a Map of California

about Half Way between San Jose and Los Angeles...
as Far Away as Possible from where people live!



Solar-paneled Canals Getting a Test Run in San Joaquin Valley.

Solar-paneled Canals Getting a Test Run in San Joaquin Valley.



https://www.44feetproject.com/ Thirty-seven tons of commercial nuclear waste are stored on the inland coast of Humboldt Bay, California, in an underground storage vault called the Humboldt Bay Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (HB ISFSI). Its location is vulnerable to three adjacent earthquake faults, encroaching sea level, potential tsunamis, and general erosion. Within 44 years, by 2065, Humboldt Bay is projected to experience 3.3 feet (1 meter) of sea-level rise, which will flood the low areas around the ISFSI during king tides, turning it into an island that will be increasingly vulnerable to wave erosion, sea level rise, and saltwater intrusion. Under these projected future conditions, the site will be difficult to access for waste management, in an emergency, and for relocation.

Homer S aTOMIC pOwER dIsATER

Keeping uranium mining out of the Grand Canyon:

You’d think the Grand Canyon — the homeland of at least 11 Native American tribes and the crown jewel of our national park system — would be protected from uranium contamination. Think again.

Uranium mines and mining claims outside park boundaries threaten to pollute the most remarkable gorge in the world. We're working alongside many partners in support of regional tribes to permanently protect lands and waters surrounding Grand Canyon National Park from mining.


The Havasupai live deep within the canyon and rely on a spring-fed creek that runs through their village to drink, cook, and irrigate fields of corn and alfalfa, as well as other ceremonial and cultural uses. Worried that Canyon Mine could contaminate the water that flows underground and feeds the seeps and springs in their village, they have opposed uranium mining around the Grand Canyon since the 1980s.

Grand Canyon Uranium Mine Flood... OOPS!

Remember: The Vast Majority of Jobs Nuclear Power Creates are For Newspaper Writers That Say: "It's Great!" It's a Classic Example of Unemployed People That Can't Get a Job Designing or Building Nuclear Power Plants... So In a Frantic Search They Become Cheerleaders! Making Youtube Videos, Magazine Articles and Blogs... all about How Wonderful Nukes Are Going to BE! No Carbon Air Pollution!

IN REALITY: Vogtle, Georgia is the Only New Power Plant in the USA in the Last 30 Years and It's $16 Billion Dollars Over Budget and 6 Years Behind Schedule. AWAKEN! Fission is a Failure!

However, they Usually Fail to Mention the Solid Radioactive Waste that NO ONE Has Figured Out What To Do With... Except Store it for 10,000 Years... and GUARD IT to Prevent Terrorist from Creating a Dirty Bomb... A Madman Could Simply Place a Normal Bomb under a Cask... and Kablooeeeee! Fallout For Hundreds of Miles Downwind... 

In Fact, there are Many Jobs Decomissioning Closed Nuclear Power Plants. A Group of Skilled Workers Take Apart The Abandoned Power Plant and Store the Dangerous Parts Safely. I Personally Watched People Dismantle The PG&E Humboldt Bay Power Plant for Years... and Drive North with Truckloads of Radioactive Material... Finally They are Done and they Left Behind SIX Casks of Atomic Waste... and the Employees all travel on to the NEXT Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant... In This Case, San Onofre... in Southern California... While Security Guards Watch the Atomic Waste for 10,000 Years... That's Steady Employment!

meme - Nuclear Power is Wonderful - except for the Radioactive Waste

and Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants because the Executives that Actually Make Decisions at Power Companies CHOOSE SOLAR, WIND And HYDRO. PG&E Plans to Shut Down Diablo Canyon in California... It's a Doomed Industry. EXCEPT IN CHINA! They Keep On Building Nuclear Power Plants... WHY? 

Here in the USA, Cost Overruns at Vogtle, Georgia Caused Westinghouse to Go Bankrupt... That was a Famous Old American Company... So Sad to See Them Fail...  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westinghouse-nucle/how-two-cutting-edge-u-s-nuclear-projects-bankrupted-westinghouse-idUSKBN17Y0CQ

South Carolina Electric and Gas was also in the process of constructing two Westinghouse AP1000 plants, which had been scheduled to go into service in 2020, but construction on these was abandoned in 2017... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Generating_Station

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and In Vogtle News:

Consumers may end up paying for billions of dollars in cost overruns on the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion. https://www.ajc.com/news/business/nuclear-cost-overrun-could-mean-billions-in-extra-georgia-power-profit/YIA3T3YHZRHI5A7GCZHREIXCPE/

The project is years behind its original schedule and billions of dollars above its original budget. The two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors were expected to enter service as early as 2016, at a cost of about $14 billion, after construction was approved in 2012. 

https://www.powermag.com/vogtle-nuclear-expansion-price-tag-tops-30-billion/

That amount doesn’t count the $3.68 billion that original contractor Westinghouse paid to the owners after going bankrupt, which would bring total spending to more than $34 billion.

Vogtle is the only nuclear plant under construction in the United States, and its costs could deter other utilities from building such plants, even though they generate electricity without releasing climate-changing carbon emissions.

https://ieefa.org/articles/vogtle-nuclear-plant-price-tag-increases-again-topping-34-billion

Homer Simpson and a Nuclear Meltdown - meme - gvan42 purple64ets


Chernobyl disaster inspired Matt Groening to put the unqualified Homer Simpson in a nuclear plant job... 


U BLUES - A, D, E, B7
Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?
Gimme five, I'm still alive, ain't no luck, I learned to duck.
Check my pulse, it don't change. Stay seventy-two come shine or rain.
Wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am; Been hidin' out in a rock and roll band.
Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan.
Shine your shoes, light your fuse. Can you use them ol' U.S. Blues?
I'll drink your health, share your wealth, run your life, steal your wife.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
Back to back chicken shack. Son of a gun, better change your act.
We're all confused, what's to lose?
You can call this all the United States Blues.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.

Solar Eclipse 10/14/2023 8 AM to 11 AM California Time... and... A Major Cosmic Coincidence or is the Universe Trying to Tell Us Something?

DID YOU KNOW? The Sun appears to be about the same size as a quarter held at arm's length... and... The Moon appears to be about the same size as a quarter held at arm's length... and The Shadow of the Earth on the Moon is the Same Exact Size.

This is NOT TRUE for any of the Other Planets in Our Solar System...
Only on Earth do the Three Most Important Objects appear to be the same size...
Just Coincidence??? Or is the Universe Trying to Tell us Something?

Maybe that's How we Selected the Size of a Quarter!

Quarter, Sun, Moon all appear to be the same size


another Cosmic thing I noticed... In the Movie "TRON Legacy" the Lady who had lived her entire life in the Artificial World inside the Computer asked the Hero:

WHAT DOES THE SUN LOOK LIKE?

Made me think... I certainly can't LOOK at the Sun with my Eyes because that Causes Blindness...

So... What DOES it Look Like?

I Believe it's a Yellowish White and is about the Same Size as a Quarter Held at Arm's Length!


Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE WILDFIRES.



USA at Night - a waste of Electricity - meme

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID... 

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...

https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
solar powered street lights
solar powered street lights

Bakken Oil Field - USA at Night Photo from Space

and WHAT is that White Spot Halfway between Seattle and Chicago? That's the Flaring of Waste Natural Gas by Oil Companies... They Just Burn it! Really! 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/burning-natural-gas-at-oil-rigs-in.html

Photo from Space of the Bakken Oil Field... Burning Natural Gas at Oil Rigs in North Dakota is visible from space at night. Fracking... It looks as bright as a city but it's burning waste fuel... Polluting the World, Causing Global Warming.


A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark...


What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree. Literally.

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One thing I Noticed in the news was that THE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION WIRES from Oregon to California Melted in a fire 7/12/2021... Vast Amounts of Power flow thru those lines... 

The Concept of Generating power in a Central Location and Distributing it using wires is a FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED SYSTEM... It was Power lines that started the Fire that Burned Paradise, CA...

Why Not Generate Power at the House and Unplug Everyone from the Grid?
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CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...

Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles
ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity...
Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to
Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!
Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT
detail of Bicycle Power Generator showing the Belt Driven Alternator... and MY SHADOW

What if we installed electric power generators on every 
exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning 
power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile 
alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt 
State University


12 volt bicycle generator built by Bart Orlando od the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology Humboldt State University Arcata CA
What if EVERY health club had these? What if Rowing Machines, Treadmills, Weight Lifting Universal Gyms and Stair Steppers had Generators? Imagine Pumping Iron and When the Weights Move Down they Spin an Alternator... We Have the Technology... 
There are Thousands of Health Clubs That COULD BE Generating Electricity but DO NOT... I Emailed PELATON Exercise Bicycle Company but they Ignored Me,,, 

Designed by Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropriate Technology. 




The MEOW... Mobile Energy Operations Wagon. A Six Bicycle Electricity Generator... HSU CCAT... CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO POWER...
https://www.appropedia.org/Pedal_Power_MEOW


Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT
Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT

https://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_pedal_powered_TV

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Build-A-Bicycle-Generator/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/how-to/a10245/pedal-power-how-to-build-a-bike-generator-16627209/


https://www.facebook.com/campuscenterforappropriatetechnology/photos_stream

http://kjcoop.com/~bart/galleries/pedalpower/index.htm


Shredded Rainbow Spiral Business Cards For Sale.

https://www.zazzle.com/shredded_rainbow_spiral_business_card-256163553649539936 <--- Click on the Link!

Shredded Rainbow Spiral Art for sale as Business Cards on Zazzle gregvan

Link to Spiral Art Painted on Bling: 

Link to Rainbow Art Painted on Bling:

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Let's Build Solar Panel Parking Lot Shades... Keep Cars Cool and Generate Electricity at the Same Time... AND... Let's Cover California Canals With Solar Panels. Less Evaporation, More Water for Farmers, More Electricity...

Solar Panel Parking Lot Shades. Obvious Winner
Let's Build Solar Panel Parking Lot Shades... Keep Cars Cool and Generate Electricity at the Same Time. 

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Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... PG&E POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.

USA at Night - a waste of Electricity - meme

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

TAKE ACTION!

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Sorry: Governor Newsom Signed the Law that Funds Diablo Canyon... Too Late to Protest This Issue... SAD...
 
If We Run Diablo Canyon for Five More Years We will have Five More Years of Radioactive Waste to Dispose of Safely... and NO PLAN to DO THAT!
Godzilla Swimming in the Hot Water Next to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Newsom wants to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant open by loaning PG&E $1.4 billion

Just to Make Clear How ABSURD Funding Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Is: It Heats the Water in the Ocean... and the ICE on the Poles of Planet Earth Is MELTING... Due to Global Warming... Global Warming of Air and Global Warming of WATER... The Same Water that Diablo Canyon is HEATING!
The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation... 

Map showing Location of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and the San Andreas Earthquake Fault in California

Map showing Location of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and the San Andreas Earthquake Fault in California


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*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

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*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

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*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics