“Coal is my worst nightmare.”
—Steven Chu, Obama’s nominee for energy secretary, a Nobel laureate, and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in a speech earlier this year on his lab’s renewable energy projects
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Chu on the enemy of the human race 1
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Posted 3:29 PM on 17 Dec 2008
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Wolfy Posted 10:23 am
17 Dec 2008
Methane Hydrates- Again, imagine a huge open pit mines in the arctic tundra or near shores of the Pacific Ocean.
Uranium, by far, has to be the dirtiest and most destructive raw fuel that we've ever come up with. The extraction mines and tailings piles are heavily laced with arsenic and radiactive sludge that invariably ends up in the local water supply. Most uranium mines bale before they clean up their sites. Uranium is hazardous to ship, use, and get rid of.
I'd say coal is a very close second to uranium, though. Oil used to be very cheap and little attention was given to its use or extraction; and now we're addicted to the stuff. There's gotta be better ways to power our world.
Most times for evil to win it doesn't take a large, horrible event; it just takes a lot of people each doing just a little bad.
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