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Nope Nuclear is the cleanest form of energy production https://unece.org/sed/documents/2021/10/reports/life-cycle-assessment-electricity-generation-options http

• b112 4y ago
  I call your view of this report into question. The hydro section is replete with "Highly variable" as an assessment of impact. One of the largest variables, is "transport of material to remote site"... and if you look at figure 32, this accounts for perhaps 65% of overall "environmental cost", when the bars are averaged. This can drop to almost zero, if you build a dam near a location with preexisting cement plants, or, in an area where you snap build your own cement plant. Even steel transportation ; is it local? Is their train? Is there a waterway, which ships can transport steel to you on? Hydro is so clean, it isn't even funny.
  • Gud 4y ago
    Hydro screws up the local ecosystem. Admittedly cleaner than fossil fuel powered plants, it’s still not great for the environment.
    • b112 4y ago
      It doesn't screw up anything. The ecosystem is changed, yet this happens all the time. Rivers naturally shift on their own. In North America, the land is still rebounding from the last ice age. And it's not like the land is rendered hostile to life. A river becomes a lake. And as there are beaver dams which can be seen from space, I'd have to say Beavers impact rivers far more than our measly few hydro dams. It's normal, natural for rivers to be dammed.. it happens in nature all the time, unless you believe beavers are unnatural?
      • Gud 4y ago
        You make a good point.