can claim that all of its waste from all of its operations can be contained indefinitely on the site generated.
I note, for instance, that the solar waste companies dump their waste in
human flesh, much like the coal companies, the oil companies and the dangeorus natural gas companies.
The solar industry, in particular, has its waste dumping procedures ignored, mostly because it is a trivial and worthless form of energy.
According to the Washington Post, however, the effects are noticable.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595.htmlGAOLONG, China -- The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn't believe what happened. Stopping between the cornfields and the primary school playground, the workers dumped buckets of bubbling white liquid onto the ground. Then they turned around and drove right back through the gates of their compound without a word.
This ritual has been going on almost every day for nine months, Li and other villagers said.
In China, a country buckling with the breakneck pace of its industrial growth, such stories of environmental pollution are not uncommon. But the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co., here in the central plains of Henan Province near the Yellow River, stands out for one reason: It's a green energy company, producing polysilicon destined for solar energy panels sold around the world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595.html">Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China
Of course, in bourgeois fundie land, it's pretty clear that poor people - Chinese or otherwise - don't count. They don't buy solar powered $150,000 Teslas with $50,000 paid by the government.
A "green" company? Only if you don't give a fuck. In fact, the solar industry could
never, in a million years, or a billion years - given that solar waste and other electronic waste is diffuse, toxic, and has a mass/energy density problem - meet nuclear standards for so called "waste containment." I note that there are still a lot of dumb fundie anti-nukes living in Maine, not one of whom can demonstrate a single
injury, never mind a
death from the storage of used nuclear fuel in Maine.
Speaking for myself - as someone who understands nuclear science and who opposes
deliberate nuclear ignorance - I would be perfectly happy to have the used nuclear fuel here in New Jersey, since anyone who actually understands nuclear science recognizes that this fuel is a
resource.
Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be better than all the stuff that dumb anti-science fundies don't care about.
It only needs to be better than all the stuff that dumb anti-science fundies don't care about, which - given that it is the
only form of energy that can contain it's by-products indefinitely, is.