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You want to talk about failure modes? The nuclear "worst case" has nothing on hydro. Hydro power is responsible for the most fatal electricity generation incid
by sjwright 11y ago
You want to talk about failure modes? The nuclear "worst case" has nothing on hydro.
Hydro power is responsible for the most fatal electricity generation incident ever: Banqiao Dam. It catastrophically failed and killed an estimated 171,000 people.
Fukushima was a flea bite by comparison.
- gus_massa 11y agoLink for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam > According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, in the province, approximately 26,000 people died[14] from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. Video with computer simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctPLXim9WG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctPLXim9WG8
- Turing_Machine 11y agoIndeed. Imagine what would happen if the Three Gorges Dam were to fail. There are over 360 million people living downstream of that one.
- sliverstorm 11y agoChrist. That's five percent of the entire world population.
- sliverstorm 11y agoChrist. That's five percent of the entire world population at the mercy of a single dam?