German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by bsder on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:55PM (#21495060)

You are continually getting radioactive sulfur and carbon into your lungs from coal--and they're beta emitters.

And, while people talk about Chernobyl and Fukushima, they never talk about coal fires that have been burning for decades in places like Centralia and Xinjian--which are WAY worse than all of our nuclear disasters.

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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by pfdietz on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:55PM (#21496301)

Since the longest lived isotope of sulfur has a half-life of 87 days, those coal deposits must be REALLY young.

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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by hollerith on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:59PM (#21496313)

Not necessarily: the sulfur might be continually created from the decay of a radioisotope of longer half-life.

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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by pfdietz on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:49AM (#21497455)

It's not.

Let's be clear: the claim that burning coal releases radioactive sulfur and carbon is wrong. There are radioactive materials released, but they are from contaminants like uranium and its decay products.

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