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Nuclear power might be climate change friendly, but it's not environmentally friendly... More work needs to be done on it, but we have renewable green sources

• shkkmo 5y ago
  > but it's not environmentally friendly... Neither are solar panels or hydro power
  • senectus1 5y ago
    friendlier in half life measurements...
• nexuist 5y ago
  Something that seems to get lost in this discussion is the space requirements for green energy, since the land we build solar and wind farms on isn't free. Every acre has a cost, and it's reasonable to presume that the land costs far more than any of the equipment placed on top of it. Fukushima was able to generate over 5.3 GW with 860 acres of space[1]. In comparison, the largest solar farm in the entire world, Bhadla Solar Park, is currently generating 2.7 GW with an expected max output of 3.5 GW using...160 square kilometers[2], or ~39,537 acres! To put this into insane perspective, one Bhadla Solar Park can hold ~459 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants for a total power capacity of 2,432.7 GW or 2.4TW. The total amount of power usage globally is 17.7TW [3] which means that our hypothetical Bhadla Nuclear Park would supply over 13.5% of the entire world's energy. As an added bonus, there are far less tsunamis in mainland India. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta... [3] https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/current_world_energy_consumption https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/current_world_energy_...
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