Question I have is how/why do nuclear power plants release CO2?
So much steel and concrete needed in construction and things like that.
I wonder how much concrete per kW for a wind turbine or solar or a nuclear. I guess maybe per kW-hr over the life of the plants might be better. I have read that concrete production produces a lot of CO2.
The making of cement and the curing of concrete releases a lot of CO2. For people who are saying we need more wind and solar farms they are not factoring in how much concrete and thus CO2 would be produced.
And then we have to factor in the CO2 producted for making and transporting the iron and aluminum.
I’m not so sure anyone has accurate CO2 numbers for any of this. There are so many ways to look at this. CO2 is produced during the mining, the transport of the ore, the processing, transport of the processed material. Then there is the construction of the buildings and the vehicles for the raw materials. Then there’s the actual manufacturing of the solar panel, windo turbine, nuclear power plant etc. The there’s the transport to the job site and the CO2 released during contraction. Then do we include the CO2 produced by the workers when they drive to/from work? Then there’s’ what’s produceded during the life of the power plant and the CO2 produced decommissioning and disassembling the faciility.
Not so simple is it?