• HappyFrog
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    2 months ago

    Burning coal releases more radioactive waste into the air than nuclear.

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      2 months ago

      Huh? I actually felt the whole post was wrong. They measure “waste” without units. That’s wild, like saying that feathers are million times more heavy than iron. It can be true, sure.

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        2 months ago

        Perhaps, to expand a little bit. We can measure energy on different units, and I don’t know how to draw the comparison, but can imagine something (e.g. 1 gram of coal produces N Joules). Then it’s easy to see how the same amount of Uranium could produce M Joules.

        But waste… Is it CO2 ? Or H3O ?