Is there supposed to be a manufactured energy source that isn't supposed to use materials like concrete or petrol to be built and maintained? Why is concrete such a big deal?
Concrete uses huge amounts of energy to produce. It's also apparently one of the biggest man-made CO2 sources.
Most of it also has to he poured deep into the earth to keep the turbines stable. It's so hard to remove once the turbine's lifespan is over that they often just leave it in the ground.
Basically it's everything that the very same people who push for wind energy campaign against all day. It's concentrated, rock-hard hypocrisy.
Not only that, but Canada and the United States sit on roughly one million tons of uranium. Nearly 1/8th of known reserves. Combine that with the ability to recycle your uranium as a whopping 95% is reclaimable (a program that Jimmy "History's Greatest Monster" Carter ended within the USA and one that France makes great use of), you have power for millennia without having to rely on foreign nations. You know, despite that being what our leaders want.
Nuclear energy is not only economical and environmental, it's ethical.
nothing more environmentally friendly than giant turbine blades that require massive trucks to pull one of at a time and that have a short lifespan.
Don't forget about all the petrol that has to be used to keep everything lubricated!
Or the insane amount of concrete for foundations and the tower.
Is there supposed to be a manufactured energy source that isn't supposed to use materials like concrete or petrol to be built and maintained? Why is concrete such a big deal?
Concrete uses huge amounts of energy to produce. It's also apparently one of the biggest man-made CO2 sources.
Most of it also has to he poured deep into the earth to keep the turbines stable. It's so hard to remove once the turbine's lifespan is over that they often just leave it in the ground.
Basically it's everything that the very same people who push for wind energy campaign against all day. It's concentrated, rock-hard hypocrisy.
And the amount of birds they kill.
Well there are certainly a lot of things less environmentally friendly
Nuclear puts out the same amount of gas emission over it's life cycle while also scaling a lot better.
And since I know exactly what you're about to say (since losers are predictable): nuclear waste is already a solved issue; Chernobyl was multiple, deliberate actions involving a design that never considered failure, Three Mile Island resulted in no deaths; and the tsunami that took out Fukushima killed more people than the reactor ever did (at about 19k dead or missing) and they warned multiple times that the exact thing that ended up happening could happened.
Not only that, but Canada and the United States sit on roughly one million tons of uranium. Nearly 1/8th of known reserves. Combine that with the ability to recycle your uranium as a whopping 95% is reclaimable (a program that Jimmy "History's Greatest Monster" Carter ended within the USA and one that France makes great use of), you have power for millennia without having to rely on foreign nations. You know, despite that being what our leaders want.
Nuclear energy is not only economical and environmental, it's ethical.
I’m in favor of nuclear energy so I’m not sure why you’re so hostile about that…