My issue with nuclear is that even with all the saftey regulations in the world, a natural disaster, a war or any number of other things can and will happen, and then you’ve poisoned a whole region for decades. What is wrong with using renewable energy?
Nuclear is the only energy source that would only require a very large decrease in our collective quality of life to try and survive climate change, instead of a gigantic one if we went with renewables only. Most likely even both will not be enough, mind you.
Also, producing renewables at such a scale means an absolute disaster ecologically to extract, process, and transport the resources required.
Nuclear is the only energy source that would only require a very large decrease in our collective quality of life to try and survive climate change, instead of a gigantic one if we went with renewables only. Most likely even both will not be enough, mind you.
Also, producing renewables at such a scale means an absolute disaster ecologically to extract, process, and transport the resources required.
Could you point me to a source regarding the resource extraction required to produce renewables at scale?
IEA study and conference on YT here. Skip to the key findings, you'll find some charts.
Thank you.