Saturday, August 2, 2014

Clean Energy and Healthy Environment



The long term effects of nuclear disasters can often spread over thousands of years. It is estimated that Chernobyl area won’t be inhabited for at least another 20,000 years.

1-The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster (Ukraine 1986) is widely considered to have been the worst power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2- The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Japan 2013) was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima cause by a tsunami
Russia 1957 – The Kyshtym Nuclear disaster was a radiation contamination incident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union.

-The nuclear industry still has no solution to the waste, and its transportation of this waste poses an unacceptable risk to people and the environment.
-There is a potential terrorist threat to the large volumes of radioactive wastes currently being stored and the risk that this waste could leak or be dispersed as a result of terrorist action.
Wind power consumes no fuel and no water for continuing operation, and has no emissions directly related to electricity production. Wind turbines produce no carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, mercury, radioactive waste, particulates, or any other type of air pollution, unlike fossil fuel sources and nuclear power plant fuel production.
Solar energy is not only sustainable, it is renewable and this means that we will never run out of it. It is about as natural a source of power as it is possible to generate electricity.
The creation of solar energy requires little maintenance. Once the solar panels have been installed and are working at maximum efficiency there is only a small amount of maintenance required each year to ensure they are in working order.
They are a silent producer of energy. There is absolutely no noise made from photovoltaic panels as they convert sunlight into usable electricity.
There are continual advancements in solar panel technology which are increasing the efficiency and lowering the cost of production, thus making it even more cost effective.
During operation solar electricity power plants produce zero emissions.

By Antonio Barros

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