MossRoad
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Sounds clean to me.
Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.
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Citydude
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This should shed some light on coal ash from the EPA.
www.epa.gov
Radioactive Wastes From Coal-fired Power Plants | US EPA
Like all rocks, coal contains small amounts of radioactive elements that are found naturally in the environment. Generally, wastes from coal-fired power plants are only slightly more radioactive than the average soil in the United States.
www.epa.gov
cqaigy2
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Sure coal is fine. If you don't live near the extraction area, and you don't live next to rail tracks where it's being shipped and immediately down wind from the power plant. But those places are where poor people live so.....
I vote for Nukes.
I vote for Nukes.
Torvy
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I grew up 10 miles from a coal fired plant built in 1973-74. 100 miles from anything that would be considered a city. I toured the plant on field trips and never has there been an issue with smell or ash. The 'smoke' most people think they see is steam...that's water vapor for those of you in Rio Linda.
No reason we cannot keep using the coal and resume development on nukes at the same time.
No reason we cannot keep using the coal and resume development on nukes at the same time.
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Nonsense.
I live near tracks where even more dangerous liquified petroleum gas is shipped and it’s wealthy as heck where I live. I can barely afford to live here and 50 tanker cars roll by multiple times a day. They roll right past Biden’s house down the road from me, too.
We had a derailment months ago right next to this mansion. Luckily nothing leaked (that we know of). One of the main family members of the DuPont Chemical company lives there.
Don’t look like no slum to me lol
buckeyefarmer
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Wow, just found out I grew up in one of the worse places in the US.
Wouldn’t trade it for anything. One of the best places to live, and they ain’t all poor.
Coal miners did very well until some bummer shut them down. Actually not all are shut down, they still sell coal to China and some mines are still producing.
As far as being naturally radioactive, everything coming from the ground has some degree of natural radioactivity. Including gases such as radon that naturally come out of the ground. It’s no big deal, you’re exposed to it all the time.
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cqaigy2
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Those aren't coal cars and you can tell they don't ship much, if any coal thru there. I still vote nukes.
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Right, not coal cars, WAY worse than coal cars. Ever read the explosion results of like 10 of those cars is like a Hiroshima nuclear bomb!?
Citydude
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Lol, I worked in the coal mining industry and live 5 miles from a coal fired plant. The community as a whole is far from poor.
Wyoming is developing a nuke plant but we cant find any poor people to live by it. Lol
cqaigy2
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Lol, is there poor people in Wyoming? What kind of nuke?
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