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RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
25. You evaded the direct, simple question
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 11:37 PM
Dec 2013

Sure, burning fossil fuels creates poisons. Best not to stick your head in the smoke. Duh. Don't let too much of your exhaust from your car become your main source of air, either.

What goes right over your head is the fact that nuclear waste accumulates, being as it lasts so long. Most particulates from fossil fuels are part of the earth to begin with and return to the earth from which it comes. Not so with radioisotopes. The planet did not evolve with them in the form we are introducing them and their half-lives make it so they continue to poison for many many years.

I guess if one is still stuck on the idea that nuclear wastes can not spread around the world, then one can harbor the false idea that nuclear waste somehow disappears.

Why you don't accept the science descriptions of the deadly aspect of nuclear is unclear. You don't seem like a science denier, but here you are denying the nuclear science. Even too much radiation from the sun will kill. It is the same with man made nuclear, only it takes a very small amount of man made to become deadly. Time you accepted that simple fact, eh?

So you're moving to Germany? zappaman Dec 2013 #1
What about Japan? RobertEarl Dec 2013 #2
Actually, as usual, you're wrong. nt Bonobo Dec 2013 #4
The US RobertEarl Dec 2013 #3
TEPCO decides permanent shutdown of 2 surviving Fukushima reactors Bonobo Dec 2013 #5
Because they blew up? RobertEarl Dec 2013 #6
Nope. Bonobo Dec 2013 #7
Sure, We can trust Tepco RobertEarl Dec 2013 #8
Funny how you actually sound like you DON'T want them to be shut down. Bonobo Dec 2013 #9
No. RobertEarl Dec 2013 #10
I want them shut down. Bonobo Dec 2013 #11
That's cool RobertEarl Dec 2013 #12
"we sure could do something about nuke blow-ups" Bonobo Dec 2013 #13
A woo movement? RobertEarl Dec 2013 #15
Thanks for calling it. zappaman Dec 2013 #16
Germany opens first coal-fired power plant in eight years FarCenter Dec 2013 #14
I'd rather have coal than nukes RobertEarl Dec 2013 #17
Germany is stupid then Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #18
Germany is stupid? RobertEarl Dec 2013 #19
Never said that Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #20
That is a very simple view RobertEarl Dec 2013 #21
Because pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants is a good idea Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #22
Name one coal plant blow-up RobertEarl Dec 2013 #23
Wow. That's amazingly ignorant, I'm sorry Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #24
You evaded the direct, simple question RobertEarl Dec 2013 #25
I don't see why you don't accept the fact of climate change Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #27
Coal contributes about 30% of co2 RobertEarl Dec 2013 #28
Germany is not stupid solarhydrocan Dec 2013 #26
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