In 100 years our descendants will not be burning coal, oil, natural gas or using nuclear fission. They might be using terrestrial nuclear fusion. They will be using solar, wind, geothermal, marine current hydro, tidal energy systems – clean, renewable, sustainable energy systems. No fuel: No Waste. No mines, mills, wells, spills. No arsenic, lead, [...]
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Cynicism is fashionable. But Gordon Gekko Was Wrong! Greed is Not Good! Presidents, whether Republican or Democratic, always speak about Service, and when talking about wars, they speak of Sacrifice, and The Ultimate Sacrifice. Many approach their role from that perspective as well. George H. W. Bush, for example, approached politics from the traditional Conservative [...]
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Monday, April 4, 2010, in West Virginia, at least 25 coal miners were killed and another four remain unaccounted for in a methane gas explosion in a coal mine owned by Massey Energy. As reported in the NY Times, “In the past two months, miners had been evacuated three times from the Upper Big Branch [...]
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The latest news about Vermont Yankee – The leak of Cesium-137 is not a new leak. From VermontBiz.com (click here) or the Burlington Free Press (here). “In a statement issued yesterday, Vermont Yankee said that recent news reports have focused less on the tritium resolution and more on the other isotopes found in the soil [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.