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That waste is pretty bad too. Maybe not on par with fission reactor waste, but definitely up there with fossil fuel waste.
by betwixthewires 5y ago
That waste is pretty bad too. Maybe not on par with fission reactor waste, but definitely up there with fossil fuel waste.
- pfdietz 5y agoNot at all. Renewable waste is vastly better than fossil fuel waste. Remember, the latter includes CO2, the most intractable waste problem we have. Most physical waste from renewables is simple stuff like steel, aluminum, and glass. These are all recyclable, and (more to the point) they will be a small fraction of the same materials produced in the rest of industrial society. If we can deal with the non-energy-related waste from industrial society (and we must, if we are to have an industrial society at all, even a nuclear-powered one), we can deal with the waste from a renewable system to power that society.