Just because something is non-renewable does not mean it is non-sustainable, just like how something being renewable does not mean it is sustainable.
Hydro (or tidal barrage) power is an example of a renewable energy source, but it restricts river flow such that life can’t exist as it naturally has for eons, like fish swimming up/down river, etc., or restricts the flow of minerals and nutrients that feed various niches of river or inlet biodiversity. Those effects on a local ecosystem can lead to other species collapsing elsewhere, which can impact other species, including humans.
Coal power is an example of a non-renewable resource as it depends on minerals that form at much slower rates than on the sorts of time scales humans use those minerals. Coal also leads to deaths of many humans and other species not only in the mining of resources (mine collapses, tailing pond ruptures, lung diseases, etc.), but also in the burning of the minerals via the release of radiation and other particulates that can impact local communities.
Nuclear is, imo, the best non-renewable source we can exercise for human purposes, so we should still pursue it.
Only an idiot wouldn’t persue it when it is one of the safest, most reliable, and least polluting (including renewables) options. Radioactive waste is minimal, and modern reactor designs can reprocess it. It is easy to contain, though we do need a solution for long term storage that doesn’t really exist yet, but that’s basically just some location to bury it. There is enough material to last us for the foreseeable future while we develop other sources to be able to rely on 100% of the time.
Relatively few accidents have involved fatalities, with roughly 74 casualties being attributed to accidents and half of these were those involved in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.[6]
Compare that to estimated 7 million killed every year by pollution from burning fossil fuels.
Bud, that link specifically lists nuclear energy as being sustainable and green. Did you not understand that, or were you just hoping nobody would actually click on the link?
The role of non-renewable energy sources in sustainable energy has been controversial. Nuclear power is a low-carbon source whose historic mortality rates are comparable to those of wind and solar, but its sustainability has been debated because of concerns about radioactive waste, nuclear proliferation, and accidents.
They’re literally explaining to you why the contraversy even exists, which is oil propaganda.
Nuclear is green. It’s emissions are almost zero greenhouse gases and won’t contribute to global warming.
Nuclear is not green, stop spreading misinformation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy#Nuclear_power
Seems to be listed, It’s just that Oil money has paid for a lot of lies. Spoiler, it’s because nuclear is the only true threat to fossil fuels.
LMAO the dude got debunked off his own link
Yes it’s listed under Non-renewable energy sources
Just because something is non-renewable does not mean it is non-sustainable, just like how something being renewable does not mean it is sustainable.
Hydro (or tidal barrage) power is an example of a renewable energy source, but it restricts river flow such that life can’t exist as it naturally has for eons, like fish swimming up/down river, etc., or restricts the flow of minerals and nutrients that feed various niches of river or inlet biodiversity. Those effects on a local ecosystem can lead to other species collapsing elsewhere, which can impact other species, including humans.
Coal power is an example of a non-renewable resource as it depends on minerals that form at much slower rates than on the sorts of time scales humans use those minerals. Coal also leads to deaths of many humans and other species not only in the mining of resources (mine collapses, tailing pond ruptures, lung diseases, etc.), but also in the burning of the minerals via the release of radiation and other particulates that can impact local communities.
Nuclear is, imo, the best non-renewable source we can exercise for human purposes, so we should still pursue it.
It’s still non-renewable and not green, only idiots would purse that when you have better alternatives available
Only an idiot wouldn’t persue it when it is one of the safest, most reliable, and least polluting (including renewables) options. Radioactive waste is minimal, and modern reactor designs can reprocess it. It is easy to contain, though we do need a solution for long term storage that doesn’t really exist yet, but that’s basically just some location to bury it. There is enough material to last us for the foreseeable future while we develop other sources to be able to rely on 100% of the time.
It’s not the safest by any margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country
It’s not the most reliable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Crisis_since_late_2021
It’s not the least polluting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_'Ndrangheta
There are enough alternatives to ditch nuclear already and rely on better sources
From that link…
Compare that to estimated 7 million killed every year by pollution from burning fossil fuels.
https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths
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You really trust UNSCEAR ? 😆
How many people died in Somalia due to nuclear waste?
Please, just go back to Reddit. You belong there.
Bud, that link specifically lists nuclear energy as being sustainable and green. Did you not understand that, or were you just hoping nobody would actually click on the link?
It doesn’t, learn how to read
From the link
They’re literally explaining to you why the contraversy even exists, which is oil propaganda.
Nuclear is green. It’s emissions are almost zero greenhouse gases and won’t contribute to global warming.
You seem to have reading issues. Nuclear is not green