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All energy sources carry the same essential thermodynamic burden. The difference is that nuclear doesn't also emit green house gases.
by andbberger 11y ago
All energy sources carry the same essential thermodynamic burden. The difference is that nuclear doesn't also emit green house gases.
- Pietertje 11y agoI highly doubt your first statement. Solar, for example, is no burden since if you do nothing it would land on earth anyway. For fossil fuels you release chemically stored energy as heat. The same applies for nuclear power. Which is an additional thermodynamic burden...
- danbruc 11y agoThat is true but human energy consumption is still insignificant compared to solar radiation - about a factor of 10,000 according to numbers I just looked up on Wikipedia - so even if we get everything from fossil sources that doesn't make a big dent in the energy balance.