• Yaztromo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    All coal from the Earth has a radioactive component to it. Burning coal releases more radiation into the atmosphere than a properly functioning nuclear reactor ever does. Fly ash from coal fired power plants contains 100 times more radiation than nuclear power plants emit.

    The idiots on here apparently also think that burning coal somehow doesn’t create waste that will last for longer than humanity has existed.

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        6 months ago

        Germany could have eliminated coal a decade or more ago. That’s an important point to bring up.

        I agree it’s too late now for nuclear to make sense, but that was a lost decade of coal emissions.

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          6 months ago

          It would be of the discussion was nuclear vs coal - which it isn’t.

          You’re bringing up the straw man because you want turn away the discussion from renewables.

          There’s good discussion to be had on the (complex) situation in Germany but it’s immediately flooded by the nuke-bots.

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            6 months ago

            The discussion may not have been nuclear vs coal, but the reality was. That’s the whole problem.

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              6 months ago

              2 x No it isn’t. I know you love your precious precious nuclear to death and back and you really really need to discuss coal to better shill for it. Nobody cares about your religion and your straw man.

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                6 months ago

                “Nuh uh!”

                Okay whatever lol. Deny reality all you want. More nuclear = less coal, it’s very simple math. Anyone not blinded by “scary nuclear!” can see it.

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                  6 months ago

                  Nuclear just means massive potential radioactive pollution as there is no secure storage for the radioactive waste. You are now going to claim there is proven safe storage, there just a couple of mishaps really.

                  Also, more importantly, there isn’t even enough fission material to sustain demand for significant time if Germany and others were to switch. But sure lets’s just skip and ignore renewables. Renewables pollute so much.

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                    6 months ago

                    You know what word I didn’t see at all in your response? Coal. Funny about that.