...air pollution.
If it wasn't bordering on criminal negligence, it would be amusing to compare the number of posts on the internet reflecting the fact that seven million people die each year from air pollution while people mindlessly burn oil, gas, and coal to run computers to rattle on mindlessly about the two nuclear accidents in the last half a century that have caused fatalities.
I cited the Lancet paper under international authorship, showing this vast death toll - equivalent to all the deaths in World War II from all causes every seven years - elsewhere in this thread.
I expect that the preternaturally disinterested will open it. They clearly don't give a shit.
If one can do math - and frankly I don't find many people carrying on about the "danger" of nuclear energy who can - one can calculate that 7 million people per year breaks down to 19,000 people per day, or 800 an hour.
The conceit, the awful mindless conceit of people who appeal to Fukushima and Chernobyl is that nuclear energy need be perfect or else every other form of energy can kill - at a truly massive rate - at will.
Nuclear energy is not perfect. It need not be perfect to be vastly superior, incredibly safer, and incredibly more sustainable than everything else. It merely needs to be vastly superior, incredibly safer, and incredibly more sustainable than everything else.
The wind industry soaked up a trillion dollars in the last 15 years and the rate of degradation of the atmosphere is rising, not falling.
The wind industry soaked up a trillion dollars in the last 15 years and the fastest growing, by far, source of power for electrical generation is dangerous natural gas.
The wind industry is an affectation, a mindless quixotic quest that is a distraction from what we should, what we must, do to save a modicum of what future generations might have, and indeed deserve.
I find the mentality of the people who prattle on about Fukushima and Chernobyl to be morally revolting. These are the kind of airheads who drive in their cars to solar rallies despite the fact that seven million people die each year from air pollution.
I could, of course, post a picture of the Alpha Piper oil platform explosion, which incinerated 167 people more or less instantaneously, and ask them why they drive to anything, but let's face it, these people aren't very bright.
Given the stupid exercise of the wind industry, they're at the level of Don Quixote, although, in contrast, Don Quixote was at least interesting if nothing else, in a literary sense.
My impression of the wind industry is that many of its supporters are functionally illiterate, at least if one speaks of scientific literacy.
There are scientists who are nonetheless ignoring these types and pressing ahead to do what they can although clearly it's way too late, and fear and ignorance have won the day. Volume 55, issue 15, (2016) of Industrial Chemistry Engineering Research, published by the American Chemical Society was entirely devoted to extending uranium resources indefinitely via capture from seawater.
Industrial Chemistry Engineering Research April 20, 2016, Volume 55, Issue 15, Pages 4101-4362
Obviously the scientists contributing to the issue are entirely disinterested in disaster porn from small and very narrow minds.
Have a nice evening.
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