RE: Renewable Energy - Investing in the Future
You said Nuclear power plants do not emit any green house gasses and therefore don’t play a role in heating our environment. However, gaining energy though nuclear fission requires enriched uranium. While the actual waste of fossil fuel power plants are only carbon dioxide and few other particles, nuclear power plants produce radioactive waste. There is a problem with disposing the waste since it needs a safe storage. Another issue with nuclear plants are incidents where the plant is damaged and radioactive material leaking (Fukushima/Chernobyl).
that's called deception by telling the truth it's an old technique used by journalists everywhere. Very effective too.
What I mean is...you told the truth, but not the WHOLE truth.
Youre setting a standard for nukes that is not set for anything else.
In the Case of Chernobly..the Russians intentionaly tested the plant to destruction. The problem was that they got a little bit carried away. As a matter of fact the TYPE of reactor they used didn't have half of the safety features such as...
Fukishima.
...forty year old reactors that got hit by a Tsunami. HOW do you engineer against a Tsunami? Considering everything it did very well. Not ONE person has died from the results of radiation from the disaster.A May 2012 United Nations committee report stated that none of the six Fukushima workers who had died since the tsunami had died from radiation exposure__
HOWEVER
Uranium, heavy water fission reactors is NOT the way to go.
Thorium
This video itself was fascinating to watch and learn more about. Definitely will do some research on it.
I agree that nuclear plants are not the way to go. As about Fukushima: It got hit by a tsunami and no one could have predict that. Nevertheless we have many issues to face with nuclear fission. Hope to see a breakthrough in fusion reactors like the ITER
au contrair...nukes ARE the way to go.
the only way.
(see above...watch the video)
Actually, if I remember well, there were some tsunami protections at Fukushima, but not for such a big tsunami (the walls were a few meters not high enough ).
In many countries in Africa and Asia, billions still need power. They don't have access to power and Govt. can't keep denying them power and let prices of power go unabated. Nuclear though gives some greenhouse gases, it is better than coal. Even solar panels are produced at enormous cost to environment. As long as we aggressively works towards reducing greenhouse gases using renewable sources or nuclear, we have to keep going. There is no ideal, 100% green house gas free source. Most importantly, if this is our goal, developed nations need to share renewable energy and other energy technologies at a lower cost to developing nations.
do you know what the number one "greenhouse gas" is? It's hundreds of times more effective than Co2 or even methane?
Water.
Exactly, water vapor.