How high would US nuclear waste stack on a football field?

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  • čas přidán 18. 02. 2023
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Komentáře • 13

  • @loopymind
    @loopymind Před rokem +4

    Nuclear and it's waste byproducts are so misunderstood.

    • @FreejackVesa
      @FreejackVesa Před rokem

      It's that stuff that turns pet turtles into ninja turtles, right? It's green and glows? Will melt your skin off like the bad guy in Robocop who gets the "toxic waste" dumped on him?
      If you have no idea about any of these movies, I'm being sarcastic and agree that it's very misunderstood.

  • @Nill757
    @Nill757 Před rokem +2

    Context would help. Size of all US coal ash, or of all wind turbine blades, etc, would interesting to see alongside.

    • @james112680
      @james112680 Před 2 měsíci

      And do you happen to be on the internet so you can provide your own context 🙂

  • @FreejackVesa
    @FreejackVesa Před rokem +3

    So basically a minuscule amount comparatively.

    • @swokatsamsiyu3590
      @swokatsamsiyu3590 Před 6 měsíci

      Especially when you consider the enormous output of clean energy. Or the riyoinkulous amount of pollution caused by fossil fuels in comparison. And where we know exactly where the nuclear waste is at all times, the waste from fossil fuels is just going out the smoke stack etc.

    • @FreejackVesa
      @FreejackVesa Před 5 měsíci

      @@swokatsamsiyu3590 the anti-nuclear group, while they have good intentions, is off base in their stance imo. Nuclear could be a disaster waiting to happen, while coal is an ongoing disaster. With nuclear it's far easier to control the waste, as you pointed out, and the next generation research reactors output less waste and some actually intend to utilize that waste rather than truly waste it. Solar and wind just aren't able to hit the capacity we need in the time frames we need. Another thing is that we, and I'm talking about US policy here and the world at large, have made really tremendous strides towards less greenhouse gas pollution and that trend is continuing and even increasing. Just in the last 15 years there has been real tangible results. Yet the climate activists keep pushing this utter doom and gloom position. Not all of them sure, and the media deserves some accusations here too. But let's focus on our successes and continue developing new solutions.

    • @james112680
      @james112680 Před 2 měsíci

      I think the amount is what it is and it's up to each one of us to decide if having a football or soccer stadium filled to the roof with something that would basically microwave everybody in the stadium, vs carbon dioxide releases warming our planet's atmosphere at least we can make the decision with all the information right?
      As long as all of us have the correct information and can view it in the correct way and I think the author of this video is trying to help with that

    • @Nill757
      @Nill757 Před 2 měsíci

      @@james112680 “basically microwave”
      Basically, all of it (spent fuel) in the whole would never killed anyone, ever. Just sits in concrete casks never hurting anyone.
      Burning fossil fuels though *always* shovels tons of other emissions besides cO2 in the air, actually killing people. Then there are the accidents, whole town burned to the ground by oil train fire in Quebec, neighborhood destroyed by gas pipeline in CA, on and on.
      Sorry, the world is all full up on ‘microwave’ bs today, go sell bs somewhere else.

    • @FreejackVesa
      @FreejackVesa Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@swokatsamsiyu3590 it was best put to me like this: "nuclear is a disaster waiting to happen, fossil fuels are an ongoing disaster". With proper management nuclear is our best option.0

  • @geonerd
    @geonerd Před rokem +2

    Well, that was definitely a LOW EFFORT presentation!

    • @james112680
      @james112680 Před 2 měsíci

      @geonerd is a LOW EFFORT human being. How dare you talk about low effort when you have one video on your channel for 17 years. You have a relatively cool username because you started so early and you have done nothing with it. You are the definition of low effort. So I guess you are the expert. Maybe I'm wrong if all of this.
      How could you take somebody's artistic work and sh!t on it like you did here? Do you even know how they did it? Do you even know the software? How long would it take you to reproduce this, even to this "low effort" level? This kind of negativity is for the Facebook comment section, not here. People here work hard to produce things unlike what you've done with your channel for 17 years.
      I'm sorry if I'm misinterpreting your lower effort comment to this video creator. I don't usually go off like this. But good Lord. This animation is cool. And I'm sure if you asked them, they carefully figured out the dimensions and took the time to make something that may help someone understand this.
      Don't be a garbage person. You are what makes the internet bad. When people have a bad feeling about the internet it is exactly comments like yours. You are the Karen of this video. It's you. Stop it.