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[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here, let the german Deputy of the Federal Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection shut you up. Starts at 24:56.

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But to catch some downvotes as well:

You can't claim to be an environmentalist and not be vegan at the same time

Thats still unpopular but at least it's true. :)

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

So have a few hens out back eating all the ticks in the yard and supplying me with eggs is hurting the environment in a way that is terrible? I'd have to look more into that, but really they surely can't be as gaseous as cows.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I didn’t realize nuclear waste was so great for the environment! I’ll be sure to tell that to the fish in Fukushima.

[-] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

The US gets 1/5 of its power from nuclear energy, and produces 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste per year – only enough to fill about half of the volume of an olympic-sized swimming pool (and about the same weight as 10 wind turbines).

Only 3% of all of that waste is actually long-lived and highly radioactive, potentially requiring isolation from the environment. In France, this number goes down to 0.2% due to fuel being reprocessed.

Taking that into consideration, that means it would take about 2/3 of a century for the US to produce enough dangerous nuclear waste to fill this pool completely. And it can still be way more efficient.

Nuclear produces negligible amounts of actual waste for the amount of energy it gives us. The problems with nuclear aren't at all the waste, rather it's the current highly used methods that are used to harvest the fuel (slave labour and unsafe, dirty, destructive drilling). Very similar problems faced with, say, lithium and cobalt.

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