Clean energy is basically only nuclear, which is laughably unclean if you think about it for five seconds. Maybe geothermal is clean. Solar might be clean if it's done locally in the regions that produce those minerals, but I doubt it.
Clean energy is basically only nuclear, which is laughably unclean if you think about it for five seconds. Maybe geothermal is clean. Solar might be clean if it's done locally in the regions that produce those minerals, but I doubt it.
Yes, if you put in an absolutely massive amount of work, you can do hydro with low and highly localized impact. You can make nuclear energy with a lower total impact with less work. This includes everything you were talking about as far as safe mining, and so on.
The issues with disposal and decomission are issues of scale. If we had truly scaled up nuclear with mass-produced reactors, disposal and decomission would become orders of magnitude easier.