Nuclear Power and Global Warming
May. 20th, 2008 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hertinknessSomeone please explain to me exactly how nuclear power is supposed to solve the problem of carbon emissions. Seriously.
Okay, I realize that the actual reaction that boils the water that drives the turbine is carbon neutral. That's gravy. But where do you think they get the stuff that causes the reaction? Uranium ore is, unsurprisingly, a mineral. And minerals have to be mined- usually with explosives and machinery bigger than your house.
I'd really like to know what the nukes-will-save-us crowd thinks these machines run on- rainbows and kitten farts?
Okay, I realize that the actual reaction that boils the water that drives the turbine is carbon neutral. That's gravy. But where do you think they get the stuff that causes the reaction? Uranium ore is, unsurprisingly, a mineral. And minerals have to be mined- usually with explosives and machinery bigger than your house.
I'd really like to know what the nukes-will-save-us crowd thinks these machines run on- rainbows and kitten farts?
