My knowledge about school level physics is admittedly not that fleshed out, but we were told that it is possible to convert mass to energy. My google-fu has sadly left me for my question here 🙁
So why can’t we just take e.g. nuclear waste and convert it to energy? After that so is my understanding it wouldn’t simply exist as matter anymore and wouldn’t require to store dangerous trash if you can convert it all to energy.
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All mass can probably be converted into energy but we haven’t figured out how to do that yet. We can currently convert only some of the mass of only some of the elements into energy. Whatever is left behind, becomes nuclear waste.
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