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Environment & Energy

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7. Until you can show me

Tue May 10, 2016, 08:55 PM

May 2016

How the waste can be recycled/used down to zero, or disposed of so it doesn't contaminate the earth for millennia, nuclear energy is a nonstarter

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Reasonable to point out pollution caused by PV manufacture. Wilms May 2016 #1

Uranium mining, however, is not necessary, for several centuries. NNadir May 2016 #4

that is funny, I had attended the view a while ago hollysmom May 2016 #2

Are you still pushing nuclear energy? NV Whino May 2016 #3

Until you can show me NV Whino May 2016 #7

You would need to understand chemistry and physics to get it. NNadir May 2016 #8

I did not mention coal. Continued use of coal is not an option. NV Whino May 2016 #10

What do you mean "it's not an option?" It's a REALITY. NNadir May 2016 #11

Cadmium telluride photovoltaics are less than 5% of Panels made. mackdaddy May 2016 #6