100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by geophertz on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:10AM (#20013573)

You seem to be ignoring the fact that nuclear power does produce a lot of green house gases "passively". Just to mine it and transport it to other countries. Than most importantly there is refining which also produces a lot of green house gases.

Not that other renewable energy do not produce any green house gases.

Also regardless of how much waste is produced, there is still waste which will live on probably longer than the human specie.

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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by godelski on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:38AM (#20014031)

>You seem to be ignoring the fact that nuclear power does produce a lot of green house gases "passively".

> Not that other renewable energy do not produce any green house gases.

I mean... it is about comparisons, right? Here's just a handful of reports showing lifetime emissions of energy sources. Spoiler alert, nuclear is better than PV, but not better than wind and hydro. But that's besides the point, because you can't load balance with PV, wind, or hydro. So you can't completely replace coal with renewables.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA/Publicat...

(page 539 (29/88)) https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

https://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...

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