Nuclear vs. Renewable: Drawbacks?
A video comparing nuclear energy to renewable energy, and comparing the various practical drawbacks to implementing these technologies on a large scale. I hope it’s clear why I say there is no silver bullet, and why we can’t rely on any single technology–nuclear OR renewable–for our energy generation.
I also added a fun little segment at the end for a particular Youtube user–you know who you are.
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Incorrect. Germany …
Incorrect. Germany still gets most of its power from fossil and nuclear. Renewables are still a very small proportion. As the tiniest bit of research would have revealed.
Thank you Kyle for …
Thank you Kyle for a well made video. A good and accurate summary of the current facts.
whats your major?? …
whats your major??
im working in a nuclear power facility in mexico……..and my country is trying to reconsider the uclear energy by building a new reactor in our existing plant, and a bunch of new plants all over the country.
Nuclear energy can …
Nuclear energy can support a growing industrial society and population while all the second free energy cannot support it. Watch the video made by the Larouche youth movement about the fraud of free energy
Well, German did it …
Well, German did it, with renewable energy……
yeah, sun is a big …
yeah, sun is a big eletromagnetic radiation emmiter, it’s ionizing your atoms now
these scientist are …
these scientist are hoplessly uneducated regardless of how instructed they might be !
the way to design a …
the way to design a wind mill is to make a big hollow wing thats on a rotating pole the wing funnels wind in the same as venturies in a carburator and increases the speed of the air inwards toward smaller turbines very simple
these wind mills …
these wind mills you are talking about went out with the square wheel there just big quasi bird killers
True, there are …
True, there are lots of different methods of renewable power generation, but I think he focuses on wind because it currently produces the most energy as far as renewable energy goes.
Solar and wind …
Solar and wind don’t even work! Wind does NOT add power to the gird. it fluctuates. Where are you going to get the power when it doesn’t make power? Coal, oil, NUCLEAR, natural gas. It just puts power plants on standby, which wastes fuel. It takes 2-3 times for a coal power plant to come back online.
Wind and solar …
Wind and solar don’t work.
iceheart920 .. go …
iceheart920 .. go your self you piece of shit
you’re exposed to …
you’re exposed to more radiation from the sun and coal plants than you are from nuclear power plants; pull your head out of your kindly
…there are more …
…there are more power plants than just wind power, there also are Waste-to-Energy, Geothermal, and about 16 more that i can think of.
You should cite the …
You should cite the sources for your numbers. It’s give this presentaion some kind of credibility.
Precisely. Keep in …
Precisely. Keep in mind we have >150 MW power on tiny submarines, just to even the comparison to the 1600 acres. As for cost, it’s all about technology. All this stuff is horribly expensive now. And don’t even try to claim that your square MILES of solar cells will not levy a huge bill. To make all this stuff affordable, we need smart folks to make big breakthroughs. Just look at the pentium processor. Show that to someone in the 70′s and she’d be in awe. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
This discussion …
This discussion about price is generally retarded. You need 1600 acres of solar pannels for JUST 150 megawatts, and almost 4000 acres of wind turbines for the same 150megawatts. This is utterly idiotic. Clearly YOU CANNONT afford to waste so much terrain, and, even if you did, which is impossible, the maintenance would be huge. A modern 8 reactor powerplant can generate up to 10 GIGAwatts of power, and occupies just 10 acres. This discussion is utter crap.
Did you watch the …
Did you watch the video before this?
uranuim …
uranuim reclaimation(recycling)is done by adding chemicals to the radioactive soup from around the reactor and is the same process as plutonium seperation. although i dont nessisarily think that ore minning is more economic as ore is found at 4-5 parts per million meaning larger mining scale and then must be refined a process in which coal is still used and yet more radioactive waste is produced and must be contained and stored.
kuronekoyama,
It …
kuronekoyama,
It would seem to me that wind turbines could integrate very well with gas power plants that can be brought on line very quickly to produce energy when a diverse set of windmills all across a large state or region are not able to produce the electricity.
Storage could be handled using 1)Hydro kinetic 2)Compressed air 3)Vanadium Reflux 4)Hydrogen
this video is …
this video is bullshit, what about radiation leaks?? i don`t care if I have to pay more for eolic, solar, geo termal energy, at least they give a secure future, what about wars and terrorists atacks on nuclear plants? complete disaster
* Refueling -> …
* Refueling -> Reprocessing (oops)
(cont’)France ran …
(cont’)France ran out of uranium in 2002 and must now import 10,527 tonnes u3o8 per year (2008). That’s about 3,500 tonnes of uranium fuel after it has been enriched. And they’re able to get 910 tonnes from refueling. That’s at most 25%
There is a …
There is a difference between able and do. AREVA reprocesses spent fuel at its LaHague facility, producing both plutonium and uranium. France’s nuclear program produces 1,250 tonnes of high-level waste. France has only capacity to re-processes 850 tonnes of that waste, yielding 810 tonnes of RepU. So far, they are only enriching 1/3 of the RepU to use in reactors. The process also produces 8.5 tonnes of plutonium, which they use to produce 100 tonnes of MOX.