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I don’t want to live next to a coal power plant either. 40% of the electricity globally is generated with coal. It also produces something like 25% of greenho
by melling 4y ago
I don’t want to live next to a coal power plant either.
40% of the electricity globally is generated with coal.
It also produces something like 25% of greenhouse emissions.
It has been like this for half a century?
Waiting for the renewables and batteries really isn’t working out.
We’ve squandered decades, and could have bought ourselves an extra few decades.
- 10g1k 4y agoNot liking apples is not a pro-orange argument.
- kbelder 4y agoIt is is you have to eat and your choices are limited.
- mrDmrTmrJ 4y agoBut if we both want to consume electricity - than we do have to make a choice about that source of electricity. And the data constituently says nuclear is far safer than coal, even though coal is far more common. So it really is 'apples vs. oranges' when comparing nuclear v. coal.
- kmeisthax 4y agoFor what it's worth burning coal emits more radiation than nuclear.
- beej71 4y agoNot when the reactor is melting down or exploding, it doesn't. :) People don't really have much of a problem with properly-functioning nuclear reactors.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoNo waiting was required. Wind + PHES has been a better option since before fission reactors were invented.