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Mortality rate in deaths per trillion kilowatt hours: Source Rate ----------------- Coal 100,000 Oil 36,000 Biofuel 24,000 Gas
by sjwright 8y ago
Mortality rate in deaths per trillion kilowatt hours:
Source Rate
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Coal 100,000
Oil 36,000
Biofuel 24,000
Gas 4,000
Hydro 1,400
Solar 440
Wind 150
Nuclear 90
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#5a58db18709b https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
- zeristor 8y agoHow are people being killed by Solar? Panels dropped on heads? Pollutants from production? A proportion of deaths from mining and refining silicon?
- majewsky 8y agoWhy is this downvoted? I have the same question.
- zeristor 8y agoI like to think the up button is small, and it was an accidental downvote, its happened to me a few times.
- majewsky 8y agoI don't know, there's the "unvote"/"undown" buttons to correct these kinds of mistakes, but I guess most people won't double-check.
- hennsen 8y agoI’ve been told not to discuss downvoting (see faq). That said i think too there should be a proposal to comment what you don’t like on downvoting as it is in stackoverflow... otherwise people neber know how to change their behavior.
- the8472 8y agofalling from roofs
- klondike_ 8y agoI believe it is mostly from people installing solar panels. It's pretty easy to fall off a roof if you're not careful
- sjwright 8y agoAnd given the comparatively modest energy output per unit, it wouldn't take many rooftop falls to put a substantial dent into the deaths per trillion kilowatt hours number. Put it another way, if California produced 0.0004 trillion kilowatt hours of solar power every year, that would put the death rate of solar installers at one every five to six years. Sounds plausible.