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Originally posted by shooterbrody
reply to post by jonnywhite
"Estimates are that up to 100,000 or more people died as a result of Chernobyl up till now. But between 1995 and 2005 in the US alone over 200,000 died from coal power plant emissions. New safety measures that were implemented after 2001 have reduced the losses by almost half, but it doesn't erase the stark numbers of people who have died over the past several decades. And god knows how many have died in China or elsewhere across the world!"
Source for the deaths from coal power plant emissions between 1995 and 2005 please.
Otherwise I call B.S.!
I work in a coal power plant and have for the last 10 years. If your bs made up statistics were true I and all my coworkers would be dead!
I will not argue that coal plants are good for the environment but they are not even remotely as bad as they are made out to be: and until we change our grid and move away from a load based electrical system we are stuck with coal. The sun doesn't shine all the time and the wind doesn't blow all the time.
Originally posted by shooterbrody
I and all of the coworkers at my plant wont be jobless for at least the next 50 years. Where you going to plug in those fancy new green electric cars?
Ultimately the problem is not coal or nuke the problem is the grid structure. Money has to be dumped into r&d for industrial batteries, hydro, and grid restructuring.
They are doing some cool stuff with hydro in europe, but it is on a very small scale.
Originally posted by shooterbrody
reply to post by jonnywhite
Source for the deaths from coal power plant emissions between 1995 and 2005 please.
Otherwise I call B.S.!
I work in a coal power plant and have for the last 10 years. If your bs made up statistics were true I and all my coworkers would be dead!
I will not argue that coal plants are good for the environment but they are not even remotely as bad as they are made out to be: and until we change our grid and move away from a load based electrical system we are stuck with coal. The sun doesn't shine all the time and the wind doesn't blow all the time.
Originally posted by Nosred
reply to post by Hellforge
With coal plants it's not necessary for it to blow up to kill people, they kill people as part of standard operation with air pollution.
Originally posted by shooterbrody
I and all of the coworkers at my plant wont be jobless for at least the next 50 years. Where you going to plug in those fancy new green electric cars?
Well, I spent three weeks following that Fukushima story doggedly... then in the end I found out three things...
1) Except for a handful of people and those that live in the area... NO ONE CARES...
2) We are still here... 1000's of nuke tests (especially near my home town) medical radiation, space radiation, CME's, cell tower radiation, microwave radiation... etc etc.. and we are STILL HERE.. and world population is increasing exponentially
3) Radiation is good for you