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Originally Posted by Rob C
<snipetty> Thus use of nuclear energy is creating a vast extra input of energy to the planet that is not natural. That still has to go somewhere so why won't it too contribute to global warming  |
IIRC Energy is directly related to mass (E=MC^2 to be precise), so the Energy of 1KG of uranium is equal to that of 1KG of butter/water etc. No extra energy is therefore created, and iirc, the first law of thermodynamics:
conservation of energy states just that.
Having said that, we seem to be using massively inefficient (and unrenewable)e ways of transforming energy to the forms we require.