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Are you seriously comparing the byproducts of creating renewable energy to the byproducts of nuclear energy? If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you that they
by shafyy 5y ago
Are you seriously comparing the byproducts of creating renewable energy to the byproducts of nuclear energy?
If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you that they rather live next to a solar panel or a silicon extraction mine than next to a nuclear power plant or a uranium mine.
- Nemrod67 5y agoand they might be wrong in thinking that
- glogla 5y agoSo? If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you they would rather buy new electronics every year and throw away the old, and they would rider drive a huge SUV than walk or bike. That doesn't mean it's a good thing.
- shafyy 5y ago> If you ask 100 people, 99 will tell you they would rather buy new electronics every year and throw away the old, and they would rider drive a huge SUV than walk or bike. I don't think that's true. Anyways. We are comparing nuclear, radioactive waste that has the potential to make whole areas of land unlivable for decades if it touches them and stays radioactive for a million years to cadmium, which is much less toxic than nuclear waste, has a shorter half life and in doesn't require us to find a solution to an unsovled problem to deal with it. How can you seriously compare the two on the same level?
- glogla 5y agoOne of them is a potential, the other is a certainty. By comparing just the effect and not the likelihood, you are getting biased results.
- poooogles 5y ago>99 will tell you that they rather live next to a solar panel or a silicon extraction mine than next to a nuclear power plant or a uranium mine. I'd guess that most people would rather live near a solar panel or a nuclear plant than a mine. One is potentially dirty and disruptive, the other IS dirty and disruptive.
- lm28469 5y agoAsk 100 engineers and you'll probably have a different answer...