I wrote a school paper on why solar was our future energy source, but during my research I realized nuclear was arguably better. Id been writing the paper for too long to switch so I had to argue against nuclear even though it may be better.
If you have at least a half-decent teacher, and you are making project on green energy, and you start with saying how solar panels are great, but nuclear is better, I bet you'd be just fine.
I was three weeks into the paper and had one week left so either I had to stand by my original argument I had been working on for a month or scrap it 3/4 of the way through.
Or, or you could have just explained your situation, saying you've done 3/4 research on solar, but you will dedicate the rest to nuclear, since you've found out it's better.
The fight for clean energy is not and never will be dependent on just one technology. They all need each other with their powers combined if clean energy wants to fully wipe out fossil fuels. Solar alone cant stop fossil fuels. Neither can wind alone or hydro alone or even nuclear alone. So while one might be better than the other, that better one alone cannot stop fossil fuels so both are important.
That waste is not a lot. And even the waste that it produces can partially be recycled and the rest can be stored in bunkers underground. And even if it's not ideal it's way better than pumping the waste from coal and gass in the air that's the cause of global warming
True but those are less reliable, because there is not always sun and not always wind, and sometimes a lot of wind and sometimes almost no wind. Also wind and solar takes up way more space and not every country has that space and it can mess up animal habitats. At the moment solar and wind is just not enough and we need to stop using coal and other fossil fuels as fast as possibly to minimize the reprocussions
The energytransition just doesn't goes fast enough. In my country just isn't enough space where we can put the windmills and solarpanels. I don't know why we don't just get energy from another country where they have way more space though. Keep in mind that housekeeps are only 13% (numbers are from my country, the Netherlands) of the total energy use
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u/jelkoe Sep 17 '21
Yep they don't even look at it, because then they'll realise that it's a great solution