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I believe it us due to the installation deaths. Typically solar cells are installed on rooftops, which are non-trivially dangerous places to work. Multiply the
by tboughen 9y ago
I believe it us due to the installation deaths. Typically solar cells are installed on rooftops, which are non-trivially dangerous places to work. Multiply the risk by tens of thousands of installations and we get fatalities due to solar power.
- jesus92gz-spain 9y agoYou serious? And building an hydroelectric/atomic/coal plant is not dangerous? It's not a too dangerous place, when the people who set these up are professionals who are following a security guideline. I see lots of people working on their roof, so, at least for me, this is a nonsense argument to discredit solar energy.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoThe number should fall as solar becomes something that you add when a roof is constructed, rather than retro-fitted, since that roof work is already being done.
- mikeash 9y agoYou have to look at statistics, not just declare that installers are professionals so it's nonsense. Yes, building power plants is dangerous too. The question is, how do they compare? Wikipedia has some stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities Rooftop solar is vastly better than anything fossil fuels, but worse than nuclear, wind, and first-world hydropower.
- bluthru 9y agoYep. Installing solar arrays at ground level is even safer than building a fission plant.