Re:Nuclear Power in France
by saalweachter on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:47PM
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> I'm glad to know climate change will be a solved problem for my children.
You don't even need to jump to climate change when you have coal seam fires and ash ponds.
I'm glad to know climate change will be a solved problem for my children.
> Hiding waste is not a viable solution to dealing with it
Why? Is just dropping it in the atmosphere better?
> and you came safely use the land underneath for farming or other uses.
Not really. There are safety margins, noise regulations, concrete platforms, electrical connections, ...
> Not to mention the ecological devastation related to ruining a square mile of land permanently for centuries
They don't remove the foundations either when windmills are done.
> I said solar.
So the energy for which you would require dozens of millions of square mils of surface, a cleaning system to prevent them to lose 30% of their efficiency in a year, whose construction process is incredibly polluant, and that doesn't work for half a year in half of the world? That sounds like a great large-scale solution.