Really? That's not even 1% true. The $20 billion price tag should be your first clue. Despite the triple meltdowns at Fukushima using American technology, building a nuclear plant is still allowed, but the idea is now radioactive.
Posted on 09/01/2020 11:52:50 AM PDT by george76
Most people seem to believe that wind and solar panels produce no waste and have no negative environmental impacts. Unfortunately, these people are wrong.
In reality, everything that humans do has an environmental impact, whether it be mining, using a coal-fired power plant, or even tourism. When it comes to energy and environmental policy, the real question to ask is not “will there be an impact?” but rather, “can the impacts be minimized?” ...
Because everything has an effect on the environment, it is important that everyone understands the impacts of all energy sources so we can make the best possible energy decisions. We are constantly making trade-offs in our lives whether we recognize it or not.
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Unlike other forms of electricity generation, like nuclear plants or coal plants, there doesn’t seem to be any foresight on how to deal with the waste that will be generated when solar panels and wind turbines reach the end of their short lifetimes. Remember, nuclear plants can run for 80 years, as can coal plants with proper maintenance and upkeep, but even the best wind turbines and solar panels will last for just 25 years, creating staggering amounts of waste products.
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solar panels are expected to generate 866 times more waste in the next 30 years than nuclear power has generated in the last 50. And unlike nuclear waste, which is safely stored on site, nobody knows what will happen to these solar panels at the end of their useful lifetime because solar panels are not easily recycled.
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Unfortunately, most people still don’t understand that wind and solar require enormous amounts of metal, and that much of this metal is mined in Third-World countries that have few protections for workers or the environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanexperiment.org ...
Throw them into a Hawaiian or Mexican volcano
Going the volcano route however is workable, if we use the Yellowstone caldera, because while the same processes would happen as in the smaller volcanoes, when it erupts some hundreds of thousands of years from now, the noxious fumes and metals would be the least of our worries.
How much above the going rate are they paid for what they
sell back to the grid?
Yet they hate nuclear power, the cleanest of all.
I saw this a few weeks ago:
Wind energy companies will have the option of using decommissioned wind turbine blades as backfill material when reclaiming surface coal mine sites soon, thanks to a new bill signed into law earlier this year.
There is a pic that is laughable.
https://trib.com/business/energy/wind-turbine-blades-in-coal-mine-pits-theres-a-new-law-in-wyoming-to-allow/article_df17dbc9-f6db-5eb6-8164-32b25275aa9b.html
Really? That's not even 1% true. The $20 billion price tag should be your first clue. Despite the triple meltdowns at Fukushima using American technology, building a nuclear plant is still allowed, but the idea is now radioactive.
That is steam ...
Steam is the number one greenhouse gas.
No, they cannot be recycled, at least not without wasting a lot of energy and material.
Solar cells are made with gallium arsenide, hideously toxic.
They have a half life of 15 to 20 years, which means you only get half the energy output after 15 to 20 years.
Those stacks are releasing steam—not CO2!
It seems to me that any energy policy that requires emergency backup on a daily basis, is the definition of waste and redundancy.
Typical liberal thinking. They do not think things through to the inevitable ending.
There is a reason why most liberals are not part of the STEM portion of the education system. They gravitate to ‘studies’, social sciences, etc. Such subjects never think through the consequences whereas STEM subjects have a correct answer, not an opinion answer.
Bury them together with the broken wind turbines.
>>I think nuclear power should be a major part of our energy future.<<
If we can’t develop our oil&gas industry, we have to go nuclear unless we expect our Armed Forces to accept the Tesla technology.
Pack the panels in cargo nets. Use choppers to fly the nets over active volcanoes, like Mauna Loa, and release the nets.
Nature has provided these furnaces for our usage.
but it’s GREEN ENERGY!.........................................................../S
It would be great to find a way to use the enormous amount of power the sun dumps on the earth each day. I don’t think solar panels are any more than the starting point. Some of the mirror and stirling engine technology looks interesting.
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