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Solar is only clean if you forget about the waste from manufacturing and end-of-life panels. Nothing is perfect. Nuclear is pretty good.
by mikeash 9y ago
Solar is only clean if you forget about the waste from manufacturing and end-of-life panels. Nothing is perfect. Nuclear is pretty good.
- bayesian_horse 9y agoTo compare the waste of solar panel production with the highly radio active, highly toxic waste a nuclear reactor leaves behind, is like saying an Elefant's poop doesn't matter because a mouse poops too.
- mikeash 9y agoNuclear produces far less waste, so I think your analogy is backwards. That waste is nasty, but the quantity is really small.