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You only need to look at the most recent problems in Japan to see that nuclear power is never quite as simple as its proponents suggest. All things considered,
by boucher 15y ago
You only need to look at the most recent problems in Japan to see that nuclear power is never quite as simple as its proponents suggest.
All things considered, it's probably still a much better bet than fossil fuels, and probably still a worse bet than renewables like solar and wind.
- protomyth 15y agoHas there ever been a study on large scale wind farms and their affect on weather? I cannot help but think that taking that much energy out of the system might change some things.
- polymer 15y agoOn a global scale, wind energy harvesting has a miniscule effect: "should wind supply the world's energy needs it estimates energy loss in the lowest 1 km of the atmosphere to be ~0.007%, which would be an order of magnitude smaller than atmospheric energy loss from aerosol pollution and urbanization"[0]. Of course, the local effect of a large wind plant is different, but given the numbers above I would think it's still negligible. [0] http://www.wse.ie/articles/how-much-wind-energy/index.php http://www.wse.ie/articles/how-much-wind-energy/index.php
- protomyth 15y agoI'm just a little worried about the tendency to put these things in the same states that raise most of the crops and what might be the weather change. Local changes could be problematic.
- Turing_Machine 15y agoThat would be the one where no one was killed, despite the plant being struck by an earthquake, a tsunami, and losing all backup power? As with the other poster: just how disaster-proof do you expect something to be?
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