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[–] andrewth09 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget about the environment cost of extracting unprocessed uranium ore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately renewables have nasty costs like this of their own.

[–] andrewth09 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Solar panels require a specific grade of silicone as a rare(ish) raw material input that requires extraction and heavy processing. Wind turbines don't really use anything that is not readily available (steel, aluminum, fiber glass, etc.)

The technology to recycle solar panels still needs to be developed. The technology to recycle solar panel blades exists, but has not scaled up yet.

I'm not saying solar/wind have no material cost. I am saying the process for refining uranium requires extracting a lot of uranium ore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You don't actually need that much uranium though. Yeah it's a big operation, but that stuff goes a long way.

Even wind power needs rare earth elements like neodymium and dysprosium, which pretty much only come from China and the mining operations there are kind of horror shows.