RE: When green energy harms the enviroment
March 13, 2013 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 6:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 13, 2013 at 2:49 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Nuclear power is not a simple, easy, convenient toy, it's an expensive juggernaut that can power tons of shit for a really long time. I almost think that nuclear power came too soon. The world wasn't ready for it. Now we ARE ready for it, but...old fears die hard.
Old fears that exist as relics of the soviet/communist american/capitalist charade. After the soviet unions failure (most spectacularly at Chernobyl) t produce safe nuclear energy it became an imperitive for them to paint all nuclear technology as unsafe (specifically ours - and those that develop it as bastards) to any organization that would lend an ear. Early ideological allies unfortunately eventually morphed into our american greenies. Soviet propaganda based on their own failures ftw!
(I actually am impressed, btw, thats not sarcasm). I disagree with part of that though, nuclear was the energy of the future 70 years ago. We should be beyond that now, but oil was just so cheap, herp derp, that what should now be a artifact of transition is still touted as some kind of future.....going nuclear would be playing catch-up, imho.
@ German "The waste" is a problem for any energy producing technology (solar is dirty, so is wind and tidal and geo and bio.......), Imma go out on a limb and say "the waste" from nuclear has thusfar not presented quite the problem tht the waste from fossil fuels has, nor is it actually so difficult to successfully sequester that waste. You just keep it dry and keep it deep. You know, in places like the place we purpose built for nuclear waste but decided to defund not for technical or safety reasons...but for political ones.......
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