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Post by timber on Mar 14, 2011 19:56:00 GMT -5
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Post by jack on Mar 14, 2011 19:58:06 GMT -5
30K fatalities/yr attributed to coal fired plants in the US alone - you bet it sucks! |
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Post by timber on Mar 14, 2011 19:58:17 GMT -5
addition to the estimated 3 million annual deaths from atmospheric pollutants many people are killed from coal mining explosions, natural gas explosions, and obviously the many wars fought over and related to Oil, which in fact runs most of the world. Here are some of the worst coal mining disasters
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Post by timber on Mar 14, 2011 19:59:18 GMT -5
Consider also
-Dam failures and overtopping have caused thousands of deaths and massive disruption in social and economic activities with the displacement of entire towns - the Varont dam overtopping in Italy and dam failures in Gujarat and Orissa in India are three such examples, each with several thousand fatalities.
-Explosions and major fires in the oil and gas industry have involved both occupational and public fatalities and injuries. A pipeline gas leak explosion in the Urals involved 500 fatalities.
-There are estimated to be a few hundred CO related deaths every year in the US due to faulty or inefficient fossil fuel burning home heating systems
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Post by Clinton SPX on Mar 14, 2011 20:00:08 GMT -5
I will bet you the list of politicians that live next to a nuke plant, is a short one.
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Post by timber on Mar 14, 2011 20:00:21 GMT -5
Coal generated power kills thousands of people every year directly, and millions of people indirectly. It is far more dangerous, hazardous, and environmentally devastating than Nuclear power; generating essentially more than 300,000 times as much pollution as a comparable amount of energy generated from Nuclear sources does. If you are concerned about global warming from man made carbon dioxide, then Nuclear power is the only way to generate power without generating green houses gases. This is why world renowned environmentalist James Lovelock cites Nuclear power as one of the key solutions to global warming and why Greenpeace founding member Patrick Moore now says he was wrong about opposing nuclear power for the past 30 years and is now a nuclear power advocate.
Compared with every other form of wide scale energy production (hydro-electric, oil, coal) Nuclear is by far the safest form of energy creation yet used by man. So where is our Nuclear infrastructure? If Nuclear power makes
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Post by Rich on Mar 14, 2011 20:03:33 GMT -5
very logical and correct, timber.
but radiation is so scary, you can't see it, you cant hear it, you can't even feel it
until it's too late
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Post by Clinton SPX on Mar 14, 2011 20:14:21 GMT -5
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