Research and Documentary "Messages in Water"

For those who do not know to Masaru Emoto, prior research, I will say that is a Doctor of Alternative Medicine by the Open International University and currently is president of the IHM Research Institute.

Masaru Emoto has recently been in Madrid to present his latest research that has resulted in the documentary "Messages in Water". In this documentary shows the different crystals that have water as has been manipulated or not, getting truly different crystals you can see a sample image presentamos. 

To do this research he has drawn water from different parts of Spain with appropriate handling. As you see in the picture, water is taken from an industrial area or near the city of water drawn directly from nature or more specifically, the spring of Ortigosa del Monte, in the Sierra de Guadarrama.Uno of the interesting aspects is we can see how this is handled crystallization water was Bezoya What is your opinion on its crystallization? For those who want to see the whole process you can see it in the documentary.

One of the conclusions of Masaru Emoto about this research is that "water and nature help each other. Therefore, if the nature is beautiful, the water will be, and vice versa "This beauty can be seen through the crystallization obtained in the same way that we can see the memories of the water.

A then we leave the trailer of the documentary so that we may tell what you think about it:








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Nuclear waste in Spain

 Something as tiny as the Atom comes from nuclear energy, which arises after a series of chemical reactions.

But in addition to this energy, radioactivity , which makes exposed substances are contaminated follows. Hence the need to manage radioactive waste with an extreme control of them.

So it is important that they are stored in containers that can not be transferred, such as concrete barriers, and know exactly How long they take to stop broadcasting radiation.

One of the examples of storage of waste in Spain is found in the Cabril, municipal and Hornachuelos in Cordoba, built by ENRESA on the basis of an old uranium mine. Up the Cabril arrive waste through a means of ground transportation and are always stored in solid state, making a mixture of concrete with the contaminated material to be introduced later in drums which then go on to a container that will be in turn sealed with cement.

These containers make up the platforms which are also sealed with a mobile roof, to finally rest under a series of physical barriers. There report will be based for three centuries under surveillance, moment in which would have already no radioactivity whatsoever. Despite all these measures of security, from Greenpeace they warn us that the area of Hornachuelos is an geographically fragmented area, which poses a risk for this type of storage.

Most of the radioactive waste generated in Spain are low and average activity and come from hospitals, industry, research centres and of course own nuclear power plants. But we also waste of high activity are accumulated in pools of own power plants, which are stored in containers to 12 meters of depth for 3 years, after which it can reprocess.

The problem of these pools is when they reach their maximum of storage. This is the reason why the company ENRESA wants to build Temporary centralized warehouses (ATC), something which Greenpeace seems unacceptable, the more acceptable option for them would be the build Stores temporary individualized (ATI) whose cost is much better and whose construction in Spain would be necessary only in plants of Garoña (Burgos), Cofrentes (Valencia), Almaraz (Badajoz) and Vandellós (Tarragona), because the rest of Spanish nuclear power plants, already exists.

The place chosen by ENRESA to create its ATC in Spain is the Cuenca municio of Villar de Cañas, in which waste will be stored for 60 years. This municipality has 442 and is located 75 kilometres southwest of Cuenca.

Renewable Energy In Spain

That further development of Renewable energies, the main thing is provide a use that there is an infrastructure that uses them, and that it is mainly a large number of users willing to adapt and take it as their own, that their economic contribution is the basis of all development.

This growth is being given in Spain, where the existing infrastructure has allowed to achieve the past January 6, as it has become known in the last hours, supply 75% of the electricity of Spain while the use of non-renewable energy for electricity production has a minimum limit of 4%.

This is a significant growth as has been reported in the 2010 had an average of 35% in regarding electricity generation from renewable energy, something that exceeded expectations, since planned was 30%.
On the other hand, the previous year meant a 34% decrease in the use of coal for electricity production and combustion of other fossil fuels fell by 17%, which together have achieved decrease 20% the emission of gaseous pollutants.


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Siemens Spain Used Cars Electric Smart Fortwo

The company Siemens has decided, in its plans to reduce the environmental impact, promote the electromovilidad among its employees. This will create one fleet of electric cars with Smart fortwo electric drive of Mercedes Benz.

The fleet of electric cars will be used primarily to connect the Siemens in Tres Cantos and Getafefacilities, and to make efforts in the city of Madrid. To recharge the EVs they will rely on to stations of load in both establishments (and may also connect to the network from their own homes).

Loading posts will have the technology of Siemens who have been baptized as EPOS, composed of a central unit and two satellite units, with the possibility of single-phase load (6 to 8 hours) and three-phase (1-2 hours). The EPOS system also allows reloading in series of vehicle electric. 

The smart fortwo electric Drive cars have electric motor of second and lithium ion battery. They provide a range of more than 130 kilometers, which is perfectly adapted to the use envisaged by Siemens.




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Nuclear power plants in Spain

The world today has its eyes on nuclear power, after the dramatic events triggered by the earthquake in Japan. And it is inevitable to ask what happens in our country? While the nuclear power stations are built with high standards of prevention and safety, are - potentially - highly dangerous before a failure, as the produced in Fukushima Prefecture (Japan).


Spain have already had a sample of the danger of nuclear accident level 3 (according to the scale of INES "major accident") produced in 1989 in the reactor of Vandellòs I. Although there was no leak of radioactivity to the outside, this should be closed and will remain in dormant until 2028, when the reactor may just be dismantled.  Other incidents have been in power plants of disgust I, Vandellós II, Trillo and Cofrentes.
Due to the always latent possibility of an accident and added this to the serious problem of radioactive wastes that occur due to this activity, there are many citizens and agencies who are protesting against the use of such energy sources. In their complaint, they call for the dismantling of nuclear plants in Spain, supplanting their production by renewable energy clean.


Nuclear energy is the source of 20% of the electricity produced in Spain, through six nuclear power plants currently in work, two of which (ASCO and Almaraz) have two reactors. We look at some basic information about nuclear power plants in Spain:
ALMARAZ Nuclear power plant:
It is located at Almaraz (Cáceres), next to the marshes of the river Tagus. It has two pressurized light water reactors. It has a capacity of 980 MWe (Almaraz I) and 984 MWe (Almaraz II).
ASCÓ Nuclear power plant:
Located in disgust (Tarragona), next to the River Ebro. It has 2 PWR reactors with a capacity of 1032,5 MWe (ASCO I) and 1.027,2 (Ascó II). Its operating licence expires in October this year. In 2007 there was an accident of level 2, a radioactive leak in the reactor of Ascó I, which was not notified by the company and that a high fine was imposed and there is an open criminal case.
COFRENTES Nuclear power plant:
Located in Cofrentes (Valencia), reservoir jetties, Júcar river. It has a light water reactor boiling (BWR), with a power of 1.096 MWe. The extension of the authorization of exploitation, which expires 20-03-2011, after the incident in Japan is under review.


TRILLO Nuclear power plant:
Located in Trillo (Guadalajara), on the banks of the Tagus. It has a power of 1066 MWe PWR reactor. In 1992 he recorded an incident level II which affected part of the element of the emergency cooling system.
It is located in Santa María de garoña (Burgos), in the Ebro river. It has a BWR reactor with a capacity of 466 MWe.
Nuclear power plant VANDELLÓS II:
It is located in Hospitalet in the L'infant (Tarragona), on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It has a power of 1.087,1 MWe PWR reactor. Two water leaks occurred in 2004 and 2005, which reached level 2.

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Spain: Prime marine wind park

Catalan to build the first Park in Tarragona Spanish marine wind project is progressing by leaps.

Recent reports indicate that an agreement has been signed between L'Institut of research in energy of Catalonia (IREC), main investor of the project, and Vortex, Catalan company dedicated to services modelling wind.

This Convention allows carrying out studies estimate the wind field with which will serve to contribute to the development of the plant.

Project that has been named Zèfir Test Station (test station) mixed turbines anchored to the seabed marine with other floating.

With regard to Marine wind park project Vortex on the one hand shall carry out studies on the wind conditions normal and extreme estimates using a numerical model simulation that has already been tested in the Baltic Sea and North Sea with excellent results.

Parallel to this IREC access to Vortex telematic systems in its own console in order to make estimates in the areas of study for the implementation of the platform.

In conclusion, we can ensure that project will be developed in two stages: first a maximum of four wind turbines will be installed anchored at the bottom of the sea 3.5 kilometres from the coast, with a total capacity not exceeding 20 MW.Estimated time of operation is in e 2012.

In the second stage: must be placed until eight floating wind turbines around thirty kilometres from the coast.Maximum power shall not exceed the 50 MW.The deadline for entry into force of the second phase is scheduled for 2014.

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