RE: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

['Chris de Morsella' via Everything List]

 

 

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Subject: Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from 
solar (Update)

 

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:42 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

>> There is no way on earth that environmentalists are going to convince the 
>> world powers to get rid of nuclear submarines, so it's a waste of time to 
>> even mention them. 

 
> Yes there is. Ignoring a problem doesn't magically make it nonexistent.

 
In my opinion life is too short to worry about insoluble problems, but there is 
no disputing matters of taste.
  
> You're missing the point. Radioactive material is a different SORT of 
> contaminant to anything produced by coal (apart from traces of radioactive 
> material in coal).
 
It's one hell of a lot more than a trace! The fly ash from a coal power plant 
injects 100 times as much radiation into the environment as a nuclear power 
plant of equal electrical output; not to mention manufacturing a vast amount of 
CO2 and a witches brew of toxic chemicals that a nuclear plant doesn't produce 
at all.

This is a valid point up to a point. Unless the world goes to a breeder reactor 
system, the current nuclear power plants have produced a legacy of high level 
nuclear waste that will require incredibly long term sequestration (unless it 
gets burned up in re-processing system)

Chris


 
  John K Clark

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