![]() People eat the young pods, leaves, and seeds. It is most used as firewood and charcoal and feed for horses, cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, prawns, and fish in ponds. And growing ipil-ipil can absorb hazardous contaminants from soil, air, and water.įor such a fast grower, ipil-ipil is surprisingly hard! American makers of musical instruments and fine furniture call it “merbau” and prize its dark brown color dense, straight grain and stability. It serves as “green-mulch” nitrogen fertilizer for rice. But it can be used to deliberately choke out undesirable plants.īeing a legume, ipil-ipil adds nitrogen to the soil. ![]() From the Philippines it spread rapidly throughout Southeast Asia – so rapidly it can be invasive, crowding out native species if unmanaged. Like so many other good things from southern Mexico, the Spanish brought ipil-ipil to us on 16 th century Manila galleons, to use its leaves and pods as fodder for their horses and cattle. Ipil-ipil was the “miracle tree” of the 1970s and 1980s because of its many uses. ![]() It shares the Mimosoideae family with mimosa and acacia. “Lead trees” in English, the scientific name of the species is Leucaena leucocephala, Greek for “whitehead,” referring to its large spherical flower clusters. Dendro- means “tree” and thermal pertains to “heat.” Ipil-ipil By raising and burning fast-growing ipil-ipil trees, the program was intended to replace the 30% of the imported oil the country was burning to generate electricity. The 1979 Three Mile Island accident also seems to have triggered Marcos’ Dendro Thermal Program that year…as an alternative to BNPP? It was designed to generate 676 megawatts, slightly more than BNPP’s 621. Marcos’ Commission on Nuclear Reactor Plants then concluded that BNPP wasn’t safe, so he proclaimed it dead “unless…Westinghouse introduces fundamental changes in design and adapts additional, adequate, and acceptable safeguards to ensure its safety and protect the health of the public.” But construction eventually resumed anyway. But in March 1979 the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania stopped construction. Steep oil prices from the 1973 OPEC embargo are why Marcos went nuclear and started building BNPP in 1976. It failed, but deserves a second effort, modified to serve a nation and people struggling with climate change. So much of my writing has criticized the nuclear effort of the first President Marcos, that it feels good to say something nice about another of his energy programs. ![]() Clean, good sound, good picture.The following is the 42nd in a series of excerpts from Kelvin Rodolfo’s ongoing book project “Tilting at the Monster of Morong: Forays Against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and Global Nuclear Energy.“ ![]() Went to Hanford and had a great experience here. Already watched the movies at the Coalinga theater, (Love the Coalinga theater). The staff is amazing! The seats are comfortable and the armrests pull up for those extra snuggly moments with your significant other. I love it here! Cute theater with small town feel. They allow me to receive a military discount on my membership, the popcorn is. This may be a run down building, but the staff is one of the best you will find at the movie theaters around here. Seats are comfy/smooshy and you can lean back in them. I remember coming here when the charge fee was only 5$ to see a movie and have loved it ever since. ![]()
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