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Thank you for being the voice of reason <3 Small correction though on your last paragraph: nuclear is not a renewable energy, but it does not emit carbon.
by teabee89 7y ago
Thank you for being the voice of reason <3 Small correction though on your last paragraph: nuclear is not a renewable energy, but it does not emit carbon.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoGeothermal is not renewable either, but we say it is. There is so much Uranium, I would consider it "close enough"
- ncmncm 7y agoIf geothermal isn't renewable, then neither is solar. Or wind. Or hydro. Those all trace to irreversable conversion of hydrogen to helium. Geothermal comes from fission, just like nuclear.
- pfdietz 7y agoGeothermal does not come from fission. It comes from some combination of primordial heat (which is gravitational), and alpha and beta decay (not fission).
- ncmncm 7y agoI had gathered that primordial heat would have petered out billions of years ago. That the radioactive decay cited as providing long-term heat is not primarily fission is a surprise. But isn't alpha decay really a kind of fission? It's not useful for chain reactions, but that's a whole other topic.
- pfdietz 7y agoNo, alpha decay is a distinct nuclear process.