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There's emissions but they're not always proportional to power generation like you might see with coal. Do they have any estimates on the carbon footprint? Nu
by astrodust 10y ago
There's emissions but they're not always proportional to power generation like you might see with coal.
Do they have any estimates on the carbon footprint?
Nuclear is the same as the cost of extracting fuel is non-zero.
- sandworm101 10y agoI've seen lots of different numbers. If you are in a dry dessert, then the numbers are probably low. But if you are in something like the pacific coastal rain forest and you are looking to flood a few km2 of trees, then net emissions can be monstrous. I did read of one theory linking emissions to production. It goes that production is proportional to the amount and pressure of water flowing through the dam, which is related to the size of the flooded area behind the dam. When the reservoir is low, as a result of production during non-rainy seasons, the flooded/dead forests are exposed to the air where they rot, releasing methane and other nasties.