The Only Green New Deals That Have Ever Worked Were Done With Nuclear, Not Renewables

HisArpy,

E-M rays are like colours; particles are more like smells.



Converting ionizing radiation to visible radiation happens whenever ionizing radiation heats an object, and its thermal profile enters the visible part of the spectrum. (Happens other times, too.)

Sending radioactive waste into the sun would be a fairly permanent way of dealing with the waste. Problem is, you need a lot of delta v to send anything into the sun. Haven't run any numbers to see if it's economically competitive with long term terrestrial storage, given advances in rocketry the last decade. But it would be more efficient to crash it on Mars, or send it into some solar orbit where it won't intercept Earth for 100,000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun

(maybe)



(for sources and bigger pics)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Undark_(Radium_Girls)_advertisement,_1921.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaseous_tritium_light_source.jpg
https://decordezine.com/lighted-exit-signs

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Undark_(Radium_Girls)_advertisement,_1921.jpg/527px-Undark_(Radium_Girls)_advertisement,_1921.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Gaseous_tritium_light_source.jpg/1024px-Gaseous_tritium_light_source.jpg

https://pixfeeds.com/images/5/283464/1200-283464-173692934.jpg



Tritium radioluminescence (wp)

Thorium fuel cycle (wp)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project

The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a 110 megawatt (MW) net[3] solar thermal power project with 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage,[1] located near Tonopah, about 190 miles (310 km) northwest of Las Vegas.[4][5]

(for sources and bigger pics)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crescent_Dunes_Solar_December_2014.JPG

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_December_2014.JPG/1024px-Crescent_Dunes_Solar_December_2014.JPG
 
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