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Utxi4m t1_ixrd0xl wrote

Reply to comment by ThisistheInfiniteIs in Germany approves welfare reform, extends nuclear power | Germany's upper house of parliament approved measures aimed at helping people hit hard by high energy prices and the high cost of living. The country's nuclear power extension will also take effect immediately. by misana123

>poison factories

Please elaborate.

>technologies that are actually green

A 13MW Haliade offshore wind turbine consists of 1 ton of neodymium, 63 tons of copper, 800 tons of glass fiber, 4000 tons of steel and 5000 tons of concrete.

The 63 tons of cobber alone requires breaking of approx 50.000 tons of ore.

The neodymium is such a hazzle to extract that practically only China has environmental laws lax enough to allow it. Leaving massive lakes of toxic and radioactive sludge.

The environmental footprint of your "clean" energy is completely of the scale.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_ixry44c wrote

Looks like the NEI nuke shills are here

Are wind turbines dangerously radioactive for 200,000 years?

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Utxi4m t1_ixsc17n wrote

>Are wind turbines dangerously radioactive for 200,000 years?

You don't even care about the massive environmental destruction your preferred energy source causes? You didn't even react to the staggering destruction a single turbine causes.

Is this a case of winning being more important than doing good?

Also, is nuclear waste dangerously radioactive for 200,000 years? No.

The thing with radioactivity is that the danger of it is pretty closely reversely correlated with the half life of the various isotopes. Stuff with a half life measured in seconds, days or months can really dose out some significant doses of ionising radiation, while stuff with half-lifes numbering in the tens of thousands of years is pretty harmless (from a radiological point of view).

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_ixscoer wrote

More lies and distortions from the nuke shills

You fools don't get paid enough to sound so ignorant

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Preisschild t1_ixu3x6u wrote

Materials in solar panels are not only bad for 30 years (as with nuclear), but forever.

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