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Crossposted from my facebook page:
I'm not against nuclear power, nor am I really for it either, since there are so many more sustainable, not to mention, less dangerous, options to electricity generation. But then I saw this billboard pop up just outside of work the other day and had to do a double take....
The lady... is... holding... a...... nuclear pellet...... with... her... BARE HANDS?!? Shouldn't she be dead already? But then it hit me... they photoshopped her for the billboard from how the photo originally turned out...
Here's the original, pre-Photoshopped mockup for the ad... you can tell why they didn't release it:
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Mockery aside...
The ad implies that the pellet (though I really doubt it's that specific pellet) will generate a lot of electricity. But the ad means absolutely nothing beyond that. A coal producer could easily have an ad holding up a bucket of coal and say that "this little bucket of coal" will power a bunch of houses. It's not the frickin' size of the fuel that's the problem! This ad is misleading in making people think that just because so much can be done with that little pellet (again not that pellet) there's no environmental impact. What about the truth that we are not 100% certain that burying the radioactive waste a few hundred metres underground is safe?
Again, not for or against nukes... but I am totally against this ad.
Original image (the top one, in case you were confused) from Ontario Power Generation -- http://www.opg.com
To further illustrate my point, here's more pointless "amount based" advertising for various types of energy generation.
Coal power: the lady holding it looks pure, so the power MUST be good!
Wind power: you'd probably need a trillion of these lips blowing, but eventually you'll turn a turbine and make power! (btw, do a search on Google images of "girl blowing dandelion"... it's crazy how many images you'll get of just that)
Hydro power: again, you'll need a few trillion glasses of water, but hey, we're simple minded folk in Ontario.
I'm not against nuclear power, nor am I really for it either, since there are so many more sustainable, not to mention, less dangerous, options to electricity generation. But then I saw this billboard pop up just outside of work the other day and had to do a double take....
The lady... is... holding... a...... nuclear pellet...... with... her... BARE HANDS?!? Shouldn't she be dead already? But then it hit me... they photoshopped her for the billboard from how the photo originally turned out...
Here's the original, pre-Photoshopped mockup for the ad... you can tell why they didn't release it:
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Mockery aside...
The ad implies that the pellet (though I really doubt it's that specific pellet) will generate a lot of electricity. But the ad means absolutely nothing beyond that. A coal producer could easily have an ad holding up a bucket of coal and say that "this little bucket of coal" will power a bunch of houses. It's not the frickin' size of the fuel that's the problem! This ad is misleading in making people think that just because so much can be done with that little pellet (again not that pellet) there's no environmental impact. What about the truth that we are not 100% certain that burying the radioactive waste a few hundred metres underground is safe?
Again, not for or against nukes... but I am totally against this ad.
Original image (the top one, in case you were confused) from Ontario Power Generation -- http://www.opg.com
To further illustrate my point, here's more pointless "amount based" advertising for various types of energy generation.
Coal power: the lady holding it looks pure, so the power MUST be good!
Wind power: you'd probably need a trillion of these lips blowing, but eventually you'll turn a turbine and make power! (btw, do a search on Google images of "girl blowing dandelion"... it's crazy how many images you'll get of just that)
Hydro power: again, you'll need a few trillion glasses of water, but hey, we're simple minded folk in Ontario.
