alt Hacker News>What do you mean?
I mean it's not clean
>one of the lowest impact mining of resources we have
Not the point. It's not clean, it shouldn't be called clean end of the story.
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acidburnNSA • yesterday at 7:34 PM
Ok, well by this definition, all human development activity is unclean. This is a perfectly valid point of view but is pretty distinct from the modern definition of clean.
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stonemetal12 • yesterday at 7:44 PM
Then what is clean? By that definition Solar and Wind aren't because copper and iron mines aren't clean.
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IAmBroom • yesterday at 7:34 PM
Are you saying it's less clean than mining for the materials that make up solar panels and wind turbines?
alexey-salmin • yesterday at 7:32 PM
Do you think rare earth minerals for batteries and photovoltaics grow on trees?
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Nuclear power uses around 1/10th the resources of intermittent renewables per kWh of electricity produced.
So if nuclear isn't clean, renewables are downright filthy.