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How are people being killed by Solar? Panels dropped on heads? Pollutants from production? A proportion of deaths from mining and refining silicon?
by zeristor 9y ago
How are people being killed by Solar?
Panels dropped on heads?
Pollutants from production?
A proportion of deaths from mining and refining silicon?
- majewsky 9y agoWhy is this downvoted? I have the same question.
- zeristor 9y agoI like to think the up button is small, and it was an accidental downvote, its happened to me a few times.
- majewsky 9y 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 9y 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 9y agofalling from roofs
- klondike_ 9y 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 9y 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.