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The question is whether current nuclear power can be considered renewable. The answer is that it is not. Renewable, to my mind, means energy that will be there
by zarzavat 1y ago
The question is whether current nuclear power can be considered renewable. The answer is that it is not.
Renewable, to my mind, means energy that will be there in a million years. Solar. Wind. Waves. That kind of thing.
- jrflowers 1y agoExactly. Nuclear power is not eternal because uranium is finite whereas solar will last forever because the aluminium, cadmium, copper, gallium, indium, lead, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, silver, selenium, tellurium, tin and zinc to make the panels exist in infinite quantities
- zarzavat 1y agoIf we can extract minerals from the Earth then we can extract them from PV panels to refurbish/build new PV panels. If you don't like that, then there's also concentrated solar. We're not going to run out of mirrors. Fissile isotopes on the other hand, once they're gone, they're gone. You can build new reactors that run on different fuel but that's not the same thing as you were doing before, so you can't call the original process renewable.