52 sats \ 3 replies \ @faithandcredit 16 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Fossil Fuels are Fiat Energy. Reorg of the mining space coming ⚒️ bitcoin
Wind and solar has disposal issues but nobody talks about it.
And nuclear disposal issue is not a big deal anyway. Spent fuel can be stored on site, safely, it takes up little space, and eventually when the plant is retired the spent fuel can be consolidated with a common storage area. By the way spent nuclear fuel is mostly dangerous for the first 5 years or so. Gamma radioactivity drops fast. But what do you do with the vast amount of mercury and other waste from solar? That stuff is permanent. They are also resorting to burying wind turbine blades they have grave yards for them and they are not bio degradable +more
Tl;Dr spent nuclear fuel "recycles" itself within 5 years due to radioactive decay. But due to an abundance of caution it is stored for much longer.
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Spentnuclear fuel can also be reprocessed because it contains valuable isotopes and what not. But that is a different story
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this is actually my main concern with wind and solar - well, that and the manufacturing/transportation issues. i don't feel that it is intellectually honest to say that wind/solar have such a better emissions profile (or whatever metric) when the considerations of how the systems are built (inputs-wise) are very often absent from the conversation...
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