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+ - Az alabbiakban kernek segitseget ... (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

Sziasztok !

Mar egy-ket szammal ezelott volt egy keresem az ezen a forumon levo
tagokhoz, de akkor nem sok segitseget kaptam.

Most ujra felteszem ezt a kerdest, hatha csatlakozott azota olyan v.ki a
forumhoz, aki majd tud segiteni.

Roviden:

- Szakdolgozati temakent a vedett es fokozottan vedett novenyekkel
kapcsolatban szeretnek irni. (de ezt most felesleges hosszabban)

- Keresek a WEB-en olyan helyeket, ahol v.milyen fomaban foglalkoznak
vedett ill. kulonosen vedett novenyekkel (foto, leiras), ha esetleg v.ki
tud konkretan ilyen cimet, vagy esetleg ratalal v.hol legyenszives irja
meg cimemre.

- Sajnos a WEB-en meg eleg kezdo vagyok, es idaig nem sok ilyen cimet
sikerult talalnom.

LEHETOLEG MAGYAR OLDALAK ERDEKELNEK !

Koszi, sziasztok !
Eva


+ - Bioga'z?? (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

Bocs, de melyik sza'mban volt szo' bioga'zro'l??
(auto'pa'lya + .. kapcsa'n) Ko:szi:HF
+ - egy hir (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

Dwindling donations force Greenpeace to downsize
Web posted at: 10:04 p.m. EDT (0204 GMT) 
SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- A quarter of a century ago, the environmental group
Greenpeace captured the world's attention and imagination with high-profile
campaigns, such as the effort by its ship, Rainbow Warrior, to thwart nuclear
testing. 
But now, as Greenpeace tries to stop oil drilling off the coast of Alaska,
hardly anybody notices.And far fewer people are giving money to the group. 
As donations continue to fall, Greenpeace U.S.A. is downsizing. In addition
to its Washington headquarters, only five field offices will remain open.
Staff will be slashed from around 400 to 65, and Greenpeace's international
organization will exert more control over its American subsidiary. 
"Perhaps we are losing touch with some of our supporters out there, and that
means to us that we need to refocus," says Greenpeace's Deborah Rephan. "We
need to regroup. We need to get clear and stronger about what our campaign
priorities are." 
The group's focus is expected to change, with forest destruction and global
warming as the top priorities. Some environmental experts say that is a smart
strategy. 
"They've got to focus on certain environmental problems. You can't focus on
the whole thing --it's an exhausting experience for sure," says Dan Dahlsten
of the University of California. 
While some might believe that there is less to worry about these days because
they perceive the Clinton administration as environmentally friendly,
Greenpeace disagrees, urging people to look at the record. 
"We still see polluter-friendly politics coming out of the Clinton
administration," says the
group's Bradley Angel. "As insane as it is, the Clinton administration is
still entertaining the idea of building a nuclear waste dump above an
aquifer, threatening the drinking water for 20 million people, including Los
Angeles." 
But just how Greenpeace will narrow its message to global warming and forest
preservation when many of its troops are primarily interested in other issues
could be the organization's biggest challenge. 

Kommentar:
Roviden:Greenpeace U.S.A. is downsizing, vagyis leepul. 
  Nem irjak le pontosan, a 400 alkalmazottukbol mennyi is tartozik a
Washington DC-beli fohadiszallasukhoz, ami nagy kar. Ugyanis egy szervezet,
amely harcos kivan lenni, es a harcossagaert kapott adomanyokbol kivanja
fenntartani magat, jobb, ha nem letesit fohadiszallast DC-ben. Tul kenyelmes,
tul politikus hely. Ott konnyen meglagyulhat, vagyis elformalisodhat egy
-mondjuk- ketszazotven alkalmazottat foglalkoztato fohadiszallas. Washington
DC az a hely, ahol az adminisztratorok exponencialisan szaporodnak.
  A kozvelemenyben is erezheto(?) egy eltolodas, egyre vastagabb es vastagabb
ervekkel kell riogatni a nepeket, hogy feleszmeljenek "tunyasagukbol". Ez
most itt eppen a Yucca-mountain neven hirhedt kis es kozepes aktivitasu
nuklearis hulladek-lerakohely. "Ez jo lesz, erre majd megmozdulnak az
emberek, 20 millio ember ivovizkeszletenek fenyegetettsege, ez am a nem
semmi"
  Nekem azok az aktivistak, akik olyan husz eve egy-egy ugyes kalozakcioval
harsanyan felhivtak a figyelmet arra, hogy emberek, itt valami disznosagot
muvelnek, sokkal szimpatikusabbak voltak. Nem mintha a franciak lealltak
volna a kiserleti robbantasokkal, vagy a japanok capauszony es balnaleves
helyett most mar csak tofu-sushi-t fogyasztananak, de en mindig tiszteltem a
forradalmisagot.
  Szoval kar, hogy a fiuk nem tudtak megmaradni a figyelem kozpontjaban.
Laszlo Barna
+ - Global Energy Marketplace (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

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** Practically Green's Solar House
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The Center is nationally recognized for comprehensive programs in solar
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                                                  Gandhi
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+ - atom-hirek (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

HUNGARIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR CLOSED FOR 10 DAYS? The chief
engineer at the Paks nuclear plant told Reuters on 21 August that the
reactor shut down the previous day could be out of action for up to
10 days. Balazs Kovacs said that if the problem proves to be inside
the block, rather than in the external mechanism of the rod, "we will
have to use underwater cameras to see why the rod cannot be
moved from its position and dismantle the reactor." He added that
the safety of the reactor was not threatened and that the 10 percent
shortfall in nationwide electricity output would easily be made up by
other Hungarian power stations.  
(******* En ugy hallottam a radiobol, hogy osztrak es cseh importtal 
kell potolnunk a hianyt.******)

COSSACKS BACK ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN ROSTOV. Representatives
of the Vsevelikii unit of Don Cossacks are supporting efforts by
environmentalists to block further construction of a nuclear power
plant in Volgodonsk (Rostov Oblast), "Segodnya" reported on 22 August.
Protesters led by the group Defenders of the Rainbow have been
demonstrating near the plant and have occasionally blocked off the
road leading to the construction site (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 12
August 1997). Police recently turned back a bus carrying Cossacks who
said they planned to defend the protesters, after which the Vsevelikii
Cossacks vowed to seek the support of other Cossack units in Rostov.
The deputy governor of Rostov, who is also ataman of the Vsevelikii
unit, has said that the Rostov legislature will discuss the plant's
construction in September. The environmentalists are demanding that an
oblast-wide referendum be held on whether the plant should be built.

REPORT ON SLOVAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CAUSES STIR. An
international study on the nuclear power plant in Mochovce, western
Slovakia, warns of serious safety problems at the station, Austrian
Television reported. The 400-page report was made public in Vienna on
20 August after having been kept secret for two years. It was written
by independent experts from the U.S., Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and
Austria on the orders of the Austrian chancellor's office. They came
to the conclusion that "Mochovce would not even measure up to the
latest Russian regulations." It would therefore be "economically
practical to scrap its construction and instead build a new, better
power station." Austrian environmental groups and the right-wing
opposition immediately called on the Austrian government to pressure
Slovakia into closing down the Mochovce facility.

TECHNICAL FAULT AT HUNGARIAN NUCLEAR PLANT. A technical
fault on 20 August caused the shutdown of one of the four units at the
Paks nuclear plant, some 100 kilometers south of Budapest. A spokesman
for the plant said the fault was a "technical glitch" only. The unit
generates some 20 percent of Hungary's electricity and will probably
be off-line for several days. Although the reactor is Soviet-
designed, it is not of the same type as the ill-fated Chornobyl plant
in Ukraine.

RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 1, No. 100, Part II, 21 August1997
+ - meadows-rovat (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

THE BLACK HELICOPTERS ARE COMING!

The folks who warn us about the black helicopters of the United Nations
swooping down and taking over the world might maybe be a bit right, sort of.

What they are really worried about, I assume, is secret, inaccessible power --
a few people meeting in luxurious rooms in big cities, planning the future of
everyone, and then imposing it, out of the blue, in ways we can't understand or
resist.  

I never thought the U.N. had that kind of power.  I've always seen it as a
useful but hapless organization.  Useful because someone should be sticking up
for human rights, peace, development and the environment.  Hapless because U.N.
officials bend to the whims of the governments that fund them -- or underfund
them, so that U.N. power will never be sufficient to challenge theirs.

But recently I got a memo from David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule
the World," who was just back from a meeting in a luxurious room in a big city.
 
He wrote:

"It was a power lunch of lobster and an exotic mushroom salad held in a private
dining room at the United Nations.  The co-hosts were Ambassador Razali Ismail,
President of the U.N. General Assembly, and Mr. Bjorn Stigson, Executive
Director of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.  The purpose
was to discuss business participation in the policy setting process of the U.N.
and in the uses of U.N. development assistance funds.  At the meeting were 15
government representatives, several U.N. officials, the Secretary General of
the International Chamber of Commerce, and 10 CEOs of multinational
corporations.  Two representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and
two "academics" were invited to observe, one of whom was me. 

"Listening to the government and corporate representatives left me deeply
shaken.  It revealed the extent to which the messages of the world's NGOs have
fallen on deaf ears. 

"On the positive side the Prime Minister of Norway called for a tax shift to
place the burden of taxation on environmentally damaging consumption.  The
representatives from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands called for giving
high priority to ending poverty.  Ms. Chee Yoke Ling of the Third World
Network, the only NGO voice given the floor, spoke eloquently of the growing
concentration of wealth and the universal consumer society.  She observed that
there are not enough resources for everyone to live even at the level of the
average Malaysian, let alone the average American.  She noted that people are
becoming cynical about corporate-dominated forums such as World Trade
Organization, where they talk only of corporate rights and nothing of
obligations. 

"The President of Guyana dismissed Chee Yoke Ling's comments out of hand.  He
accused NGOs of trying to postpone the development that people so desperately
want.  Besides, he said, if he does not cut down his country's forests, someone
might grow marijuana in them. 

"The United States sent Larry Summers, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. 
Summers praised privatization, noting that people take better care of their
homes when they own them, implying that environmental resources will be better
cared for when they are owned by corporations.  He assured us that economic
growth creates both the will and the means to deal with the environment.  He
said that by attracting private capital to build bridges and roads, countries
will not need to use scarce public funds.  He might have added that private
roads and bridges will be less congested, because the poor will not be able to
pay the tolls. 

"Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the U.N., referred to the Rio meeting as
an example of the private sector participating in setting environmental
standards.  He did not point out that the private sector helped assure that few
standards were set and even fewer met.  He called on business to come up with
alternative energy sources for the poor so they 'don't have to cut down every
tree in sight,' while making no mention of the corporations that are stripping
the world's forests.

"Underlying all these words was the logic of economic globalization.  The
dominance of corporations is an irreversible reality to which we must adapt. 
To deal with poverty and the environment we need market incentives (read public
subsidies), so corporations will invest in job creation and environmentally
friendly technologies.  Corporations need to be partners in public decisions. 
No speaker other than Chee Yoke Ling saw any problem in giving over more power
to global corporations."

With his note, Korten sent a cartoon.  It shows a U.N. session with Nike taking
a seat next to Nicaragua.  The delegate from Coca-Cola asks to speak.

To fulfill its enormous mandate -- "to maintain international peace and
security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to achieve international
cooperation in solving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems
and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; to be a
center for harmonizing the actions of nations in attaining these common ends"
-- the U.N. has an annual budget of $2.6 billion.  Compare that to the U.S.
military budget ($260 billion) or the annual revenues of General Motors ($168
billion) or Wal-Mart ($93 billion).  

A puny $2.6 billion is hardly worth a corporate grab.  I would guess that
desperate U.N. officials initiated that power lunch, in hope of trading some of
their legitimacy and power for corporate money.  Public school officials are
doing that, so is public broadcasting, so, if some senators have their way,
will the national parks, and so, of course, do the senators.

You don't need black helicopters to rule the world.  

(Donella H. Meadows is an adjunct professor of environmental studies at
Dartmouth College.)
+ - szakertoket keresunk egy ENSZ (UNEP) vizsgalathoz (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

Kedves egyetemen vagy kutatointezetekben dolgozo KORNYESZ-ek!

egy UNEP szakertoi vizsgalathoz keresunk olyan szakertoket, akik 
szivesen kitoltenenek egy szakertoi velemeny-kerdoivet "emerging 
environmental issues" temakorben.  Termeszetesen, ehhez sajnos vagy 
angolul kell nagyon jol tudni, vagy valami jo angol tolmacs 
segitokeszseget elvezni.... 

Emailen lehet nalam jelentkezni, egy bekezdesnyi szakmai 
bemutatkozoval fuszerezve.

Diana

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Dr. Urge-Vorsatz Diana
Professor of Energy Policy
Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Policy
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
H-1051 Budapest
Nador u. 9
Ph:  (36-1) 327-3095
     or     327-3021
Fax: (36-1) 327-3031
+ - Atomenergia (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

Most jottem meg a szabadsagomrol es azonnal ellenallhatatlan ingert 
ereztem, hogy irjak valamit.

1. Paksi ugy
Meg alig erkeztem meg, igy csak nagyon vazlatos informaciom van. Az 
egyik szabalyozodrud mozgato motor (amibol blokkonkent 37 van) akadt 
el valami femdarab miatt. Miutan a szabalyozorud a biztonsag egyik 
legfontosabb eleme, a blokkot azonnal leallitotak. A feltetelezesek 
szerint a darabka egy javitaskor vagy ellenorzeskor ottfelejtetett 
vagy beeset alatet(darab). A pilseni Skoda (a gyarto es karbantarto) 
azonnal lecserelte a motort es inditani akartak a reaktort, de a 
Nuklearis Biztonsagtechnikai Felugyelet addig nem engedelyezte az 
ujrainditast, amig nem vizsgaljak ki, hogy pontosan mi az ami ott volt 
es az hogy kerult oda.

2. Kanada es az atomenergia jovoje

"The reason for these closures (tho not cited by Ontario Hydro)  is the
pending electricity sector liberalization, which will enable customers
to purchase electricity from who ever they like, rather than the
current nuclear monopoly.  Since nuclear electricity is more expensive
than other forms, nuclear utilities are being forced to close reactors
to cut costs or face losing customers."

A liberalizalt piacrol egy rajz egy szakmai lapbol:
A customer (haziasszony) all egy porszivo zsinorjaval a kezeben a fal 
elott, ahol nehany konektor, kulonbozo feliratokkal (EdF, ENEL, RWE 
vagy akar Ontario Hydro) es masik kezeben egy ujsag tozsdei rovata. 
Alairas: "Ma melyikbe is dugjam?"

Komolyabban:
Meglepo a hir, akarhonnan is szarmazik. Kanada baromi sokat koltott a 
nehezvizes reaktorok (HWR, pontosabban PHWR, naluk CANDU) 
kifejlesztesere, tehat ezt is beleszamitva valoban nem nagyon olcso. 
(Fontos: az USA es a SzU es reszben Franciaorszag is, a dontoen a 
katonai koltsegvetesbol fejlesztett nyomottvizes - PWR - 
reaktorokat polgariasitotta.) Uzemkoltseget tekintve azonban a 
CANDU-nal olcsobb reaktor nincs! A hagyomanyos eromuvek 
uzemkoltsegevel - a vizeromuveket kiveve - ossze sem erdemes 
hasonlitani. Az ok - ha a hirnek van igazsag-magva - csak a javitas 
koltsege lehet. A Pickering A es a Bruce A osszesen 8 blokkja mar  
eleg oreg - nemelyik talan mar 25 ev feletti - ahhoz, hogy ha ujra 
jelentkeztek a nyomastarto csoveken mar 15 eve is megjelent errozios 
korrozio jelei, akkor esetleg az elettartamuk vegehez kozeledo 
blokkokon mar nem kifizetodo meg egy csocseret vegrehajtani. Ugyanezt 
a okot a ket eromu ugyancsak 4-4 blokkos B kiepitesenel mar nem 
tartom valoszinunek. Ennek ellenere izgalommal varom az ujabb 
hireket, hatha valami mas oka lehet a dolognak.

Az USA-ban egeszen mas a helyzet. Ott mar nagyon sok reaktort zartak 
be, hiszen a fejlesztesek idoszakaban - 60-as, 70-es evek - dogivel 
epitettek  villamosenergiat is termelo kiserleti reaktorokat a 
kW-tol 100-200 MW-ig terjedo tartomanyban. Ezek kozul nemelyik csak 
1-2 evig uzemelt (vagy annyit sem), nemelyik - ha kiserleti szerepe 
meg is szunt - uzemben maradt (hadd menjen, ha mar ott van). Ezek 
nyilvan a mai biztonsagi eloirasoknak mar nem felenek meg, atepitesuk 
biztos nem kifizetodo. Ezeket tenyleg csak leallitani lehet.

Udvozlet mindenkinek 
Gacs Ivan

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