Scientists Working on a Space Elevator?

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Kasz216 said:

NJ5 said:

Random Person B said:

Nuclear plants are relatively small, but the nuclear waste and pollution it creates are extremely hard to get rid of and puts out dangerous radiation. at least Co2 from oil and coal factories can be absorbed by the ocean/plants (...)

Fun fact: a coal power station dumps 100 times more nuclear radiation to the environment than the equivalent nuclear power plant does.

http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

 

Wonder if that includes the "Clean Coal" plants that want to be about 50% of our nations energy.

Funny, considering the energy polcies being proposed in the US>

"Clean coal" is a bullshit term. It's not clean at all. It reduces some of the pollutive elements, but not all and perhaps not the worst ones. There's also the question of pollution storage, of course.

As far as I've read, radionuclides aren't reduced by the so called "clean coal" technologies. Coal is (and will remain) the dirtiest form of energy, no matter how many "clean slogans" the energy firms come up with.