Natural gas and nuclear power are essentially clean energy. Definitely cleaner than so-called green energy solutions. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
The phrase “clean energy” has emanated from official podiums, world over, in recent years. The implication, of course, is that the energy sources we’ve been using are filthy. That, however, is not the case. We already have and use clean energy. And it is far, far better than replacements the podiums expect us to suffer for.
We use clean energy every day, and it works exceedingly well. I think we should be happy about that.
I was confronted with this fact quite some years ago, while working on an alternative energy project. Here are the pounds of particulate matter (aka, dirt), produced when generating a billion BTUs (British Thermal Units, a measurement of heat):
Coal 2,744
Oil 84
Natural Gas 7
Nuclear 0
As you can see, we already have clean energy, in the form of natural gas and nuclear power. (Burning wood in a fireplace, by the way, dwarfs all the figures above.)
That said, let’s go through some details:
Nuclear And Gas
Nuclear energy is hyper-clean. So long as you bury the waste well (like inside a mountain or a thousand feet below some barren dessert), there is no mess. You can also recycle a lot of it.
The other pollution attributed to nuclear is called Thermal Pollution, which is really almost no pollution at all. (Your home furnace produces “thermal pollution” too.) Nuclear reactors are cooled with water, usually from an adjacent river or lake. They take in cold water and return warm water, which fish and aquatic plants tend to love. As is usual with climate change terminology, Thermal Pollution, regarding nuclear, is for show.
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