RE: When green energy harms the enviroment
March 13, 2013 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 3:11 pm by Creed of Heresy.)
That is the biggest problem so far, but you have to realize if you're arguing against radioactive waste as the sole reason for it being bad you DO realize you will have to argue that a looot of medical equipment shouldn't be allowed or constructed or used either because a lot of radioactive waste is generated by hospitals through the use of their diagnostic machines, machines without which we could not hope to combat the myriad plagues and diseases and maladies we humans are constantly stricken with. Given the amount of hospitals and how much waste they procure, the logistics are no easier or less expensive, but it's handled anyway. We aren't exactly talking about tens or hundreds of miles of land being consumed at a time in the quest to store toxic waste, even at our current rate of consumption...and take in mind too that newer designs produce far less toxic waste than the majority of those that are operational which were built in the 70s and 80s. Or rather, they produce the same levels, but they put out much more power, so the generation of toxic waste is lessened through efficiency.