And are you suggesting that solar plants really create more toxins to dispose of than nuclear? Really?
Further if we spend money on thorium you don’t have much waste at all. In fact you can use your current waste as the medium to kickstart the thorium reaction.
Solar and chemical storage requires poisonous materials that will leech into the ground water.
Nobody is willing to acknowledge the elephant in the room
This is just wrong.
> Our solar plants are going to lead to massive poisoned landfills due to their heavy metals. They are hard to recycle and so many are just dumping them.
They aren't particularly hard to recycle - it's just that there hasn't been significant demand until now (15 year life cycles..).
But plants are opening now, and the economics are quite good (because the heavy metals are quite valuable): https://www.livingcircular.veolia.com/en/industry/first-recy...
"heavy metals" as in leaded solder, something that was banned in 2006?
How anybody would suspect that metals were so fully recyclable again and again? You just melt it in a mold, and voila!. Raw material. That was a lot of luck.
well,... unless they are radioactive metals of course. Then is more difficult.
That's the problem. The current level of hyperconsumerism is completely unsustainable.
Cheaper electricity would only encourage more industrial production and pollution due to discarded goods.