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How can you call it clean when there is a unresolved waste problem?
by gefhfff 5y ago
How can you call it clean when there is a unresolved waste problem?
- midrus 5y agoWhat other feasible/realistic cleaner alternatives do you propose?
- gefhfff 5y agoWind, solar, rivers joining with salt water, river streams, tides, gas (from waste), geo thermals ...
- csee 5y agoWind/solar has a variability problem and storage is expensive. Hydro is bad for the local environment. Nuclear has a minor waste problem which isn't really that bad. None of these are perfect solutions. Nuclear shouldn't be ruled out of a green mix.
- gefhfff 5y agoNuclear has a huge waste issue, persisting between hundreds and a million years. Storage isn't that expensive, E.g. through gas. E.g. Germany maintenances Gas storage (currently filled with non renewable gas) that can power the entire country a Quarter of a year. Without the actual need through renewables. Nuclear with waste management would have to be cheaper than that. (Aside from the subjective evaluation of the associated risk of nuclear energy)
- csee 5y agoSource that storage isn't that expensive? What I've read has said the opposite. If that's true then I'll adjust my views accordingly.
- smileysteve 5y agoA similar way we can with solar or wind? With per megawatt waste for nuclear per 20 years being exponentially smaller in volume. And where the alternative is coal /natural gas (rather than wind or solar) where these produce more volume of waste in a month/year than nuclear does in a decade. (And in the case of coal, we store worse waste in ways it often enters our fresh water supplies.