The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

Everyone loves talking about renewal energy (wind and solar primarily) but not many people realize that both wind turbines and solar panels have about 20-25 year lifespan. And they’re not very environmentally friendly in their construction, the silica sand needed to make solar panels is very hard to mine and there’s a lot of overburden to remove before they get to it. Wind turbines are also quite harmful to produce, but they also kill over 750,000 birds every year. That number will only get larger every year that passes with more wind turbines are built. I have been firm on the idea that nuclear power is the best way for ending fossil fueled power plants. There’s been some new designs lately that make nuclear safer than it has been in the past. Instead of using solid  uranium fuel rods, the new design uses liquid uranium and in the event of power loss, which was the issue why Fukushima blew up, the liquid uranium fuel drains from the reactor chamber (without any human on site) into a containment vat below the reactor.