You're right that the worldometer number is excessive and not to be trusted. They properly calculated 1.147083 tons of coal per capita per year, but then incor

You're right that the worldometer number is excessive and not to be trusted. They properly calculated 1.147083 tons of coal per capita per year, but then incorrectly multiplied by it 1,000,000 cubic feet per ton. The actual conversion factor for coal seems to be 20-60 cubic feet per ton, depending on whether you use bulk density or particle density. Their per capita calculation is too high by a factor of about 15,000-50,000. You're right that the amount of coal consumed is not similar to the amount of uranium byproduct generated. The original commenter's intuition was misled, not by uranium's density, but by its energy density. Of course there is an xkcd for this. https://xkcd.com/1162/ https://xkcd.com/1162/